| 100% | RIA | 3 | Narrow inlet for a river (word hidden in "arias") |
| 63% | RIA | 3 | Narrow inlet for a river |
| 61% | RIA | 3 | Narrow inlet for a river (anagram of "air") |
| 60% | RIA | 3 | A narrow inlet for a river |
| 58% | RIA | 3 | A narrow inlet for a river (anagram of "air") |
| 48% | RIA | 3 | Narrow inlet of a river |
| 44% | AVON | 4 | Massachusetts town named for a river in England |
| 44% | EBOLA | 5 | Viral disease named for a river in Africa |
| 44% | EGO | 3 | Word hidden in this clue that might be a detriment to negotiations |
| 43% | ERI | 3 | Aria title word hidden in "stage right" |
| 42% | CANOE | 5 | Paddle down a river in a narrow boat |
| 42% | PIMIENTO | 8 | Word for a pepper in Spanish |
| 42% | SYN | 3 | Word in a thesaurus, for short |
| 41% | DUG | 3 | Explored for a hidden treasure in the yard, say |
| 41% | RAS | 3 | Arabic for a "head" ; Common word in Arabic place names |
| 40% | NOUN | 4 | Word for a person or a place, in grammar |
| 40% | DECIDUOUS | 9 | Word for a tree that loses leaves in winter |
| 40% | ALFA | 4 | Word for A in the US NATO Phonetic Alphabet |
| 40% | SANGFROID | 9 | French word for calm in a crisis |
| 40% | END | 3 | Last word in a puzzle, for instance |
| 40% | LALA | 4 | Substitute for forgotten words in a song |
| 40% | AGENTNOUN | 9 | In grammar, a word for the performer of a verb |
| 39% | GROK | 4 | Word for “understand” coined in a 1961 sci-fi novel |
| 39% | NORI | 4 | A Japanese word for seaweed; it's used in sushi |
| 39% | PALO | 4 | Word for "stick" found in a Bay Area city name |
| 39% | BAMBINO | 7 | Word for a young child (especially in Italian) |
| 39% | BOLD | 4 | What B stands for in a word processor |
| 39% | ALAI | 4 | Basque word for "merry" in a court game |
| 39% | VOCAB | 5 | All the words in a language, for short |
| 39% | SNIGLET | 7 | Term for a word that isn't in the dictionary but should be |