| 100% | UAR | 3 | Nasser's bailiwick of the sixties, in brief |
| 51% | SEC | 3 | One of the sixty in a minute, for short |
| 49% | DRS | 3 | A majority of the characters on TV's "St. Elsewhere," in brief |
| 48% | GITRACT | 7 | Part of the digestive system, in brief |
| 48% | CIA | 3 | Publisher of the World Factbook, in brief |
| 48% | ERA | 3 | Unfinished crusade of the 1970s, in brief |
| 48% | ETAL | 4 | And more of the same, in brief |
| 48% | ACL | 3 | Neighbor of the patellar tendon, in brief |
| 48% | XER | 3 | Child of the '70s, in brief |
| 48% | ATEST | 5 | Blast of the past, in brief |
| 47% | OMB | 3 | Fiscal arm of the executive branch, in brief |
| 47% | WALLST | 6 | Site of the first "Occupy" protests, in brief |
| 47% | XER | 3 | Any of the “Stranger Things” kids, in brief |
| 46% | JSBACH | 6 | Composer of the "Brandenburg Concertos," in brief |
| 46% | SONIC | 5 | One of the S's in SST |
| 45% | OBOE | 4 | It has a brief solo in the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth |
| 45% | SST | 3 | Onetime part of the Air France fleet, in brief |
| 45% | SMU | 3 | Home of the George W. Bush Institute, in brief |
| 45% | MLK | 3 | Author of the "Letter From Birmingham Jail," in brief |
| 45% | SSR | 3 | Georgia, for most of the 20th century, in brief |
| 45% | SHIP | 4 | One of the S's in U.S.S. |
| 45% | NYC | 3 | Capital of the U.S. from 1785 to 1790, in brief |
| 44% | ALTHO | 5 | In spite of the fact that, in brief |
| 44% | OSU | 3 | The Buckeyes of the Big Ten, in brief |
| 44% | MSU | 3 | The Spartans of the Big Ten, in brief |
| 44% | GONZO | 5 | In the style of Hunter S. Thompson, say |
| 44% | SNL | 3 | Source of the films "The Blues Brothers" and "Coneheads," in brief |
| 43% | ASL | 3 | Form of much of the dialogue of 2021's "CODA," in brief |
| 43% | USSR | 4 | One-sixth of the world's ground surface until 1991, in brief |
| 43% | DEADCAT | 7 | __ bounce, brief recovery in the price of stock |