| 100% | HOHOKUS | 7 | New Jersey town with a hyphenated name |
| 55% | HIC | 3 | Juice box brand with a hyphenated name |
| 54% | HIC | 3 | Fruit-flavored drink with a hyphenated name |
| 53% | ICET | 4 | Rapper with a hyphenated name |
| 53% | HIC | 3 | Juice drink with a hyphenated name |
| 53% | TFAL | 4 | Kitchenware brand with a hyphenated name |
| 53% | HIC | 3 | Fruit drink with a hyphenated name |
| 53% | HIC | 3 | Juice brand with a hyphenated name |
| 51% | EXETER | 6 | New Hampshire town with a prep school |
| 50% | EXETER | 6 | New Hampshire town with a namesake prep school |
| 50% | EXETER | 6 | New Hampshire town with a renowned prep school |
| 49% | BAYONNE | 7 | New Jersey city with a bridge to Staten Island |
| 49% | NEYO | 4 | R&B singer with a hyphenated stage name |
| 47% | LYME | 4 | Connecticut town with a disease named after it |
| 47% | EDAM | 4 | Dutch town with a cheese named after it |
| 47% | OREGON | 6 | State with a town named Boring |
| 47% | KEAN | 4 | New Jersey public university with a campus in China |
| 46% | RETITLE | 7 | Come up with a new name for |
| 46% | UTICA | 5 | New York city with a name from antiquity |
| 45% | ASHE | 4 | Arthur with a New York stadium named for him |
| 45% | TET | 3 | Asian New Year with a palindromic name |
| 45% | SUSSEX | 6 | Northern New Jersey county named for a southern English county |
| 44% | ORONOMAINE | 10 | New England town named for a Penobscot chief |
| 44% | ASHE | 4 | Tennis great Arthur with a New York stadium named for him |
| 43% | NINE | 4 | U.S. highway with a ferry connection between Delaware and New Jersey |
| 43% | DUFFEL | 6 | Heavy woollen cloth with a thick nap named after a town in Belgium |
| 42% | NEON | 4 | Gas with a ''new'' name |
| 42% | LODI | 4 | New Jersey town |
| 42% | DUFFEL | 6 | Heavy woollen cloth with a thick nap named after a town in Antwerp, Belgium |
| 42% | MARIOCUOMO | 10 | Former governor with a New York City bridge named in his honor: 2 wds. |