| 100% | FOUR | 4 | Only number that equals the number of letters in its English name |
| 55% | PITTSBURGH | 10 | City that had the final letter of its name removed in 1891, only to be restored in 1911 |
| 52% | HBOMAX | 6 | Streaming service that dropped the first three letters of its name when it rebranded in 2023 |
| 52% | FOUR | 4 | Only number with the same number of letters as its value |
| 50% | FOUR | 4 | It has an apt number of letters in its name |
| 49% | PIERRE | 6 | Only state capital that shares no letters with the name of its state |
| 47% | SDAK | 4 | Only U.S. state in which the name of the state and its capital share no letters: Abbr. |
| 46% | XXXXX | 5 | Largish combo (and a hint to the number of letters in each country that you'll need) |
| 46% | IRAN | 4 | Country that shares the first three letters of its name with a neighboring country |
| 45% | GALWAY | 6 | "___ Girl," song by English singer Ed Sheeran which has the name of an Irish city in its title that is home to Eyre Square |
| 45% | EGGCREAM | 8 | Soda fountain treat that contains neither of the ingredients in its name |
| 44% | IOWA | 4 | Besides Ohio and Utah, the only state with four letters in its name |
| 44% | LAO | 3 | Language that's the name of an Asian country minus its last letter |
| 43% | AOL | 3 | ISP that dropped the long form of its name in 2006 |
| 43% | FOUR | 4 | The number of letters in this clue's answer |
| 43% | THREE | 5 | The number of letters in this answer minus two |
| 43% | BOISE | 5 | State capital that has the same number of letters as its state |
| 43% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of letters in this answer |
| 43% | EDINBURGH | 9 | A town in Indiana that shares its name with the capital of Scotland |
| 43% | RHESUS | 6 | Animal that shares its name with a king of Thrace in the "Iliad" |
| 43% | WWE | 3 | Org. that replaced the “F” in its name because of a legal dispute |
| 42% | SIX | 3 | Number of letters in the word "twelve" |
| 42% | TEN | 3 | Number of letters in the word "dictionary" |
| 42% | TEN | 3 | Number of letters in the word "smartphone" |
| 42% | THREE | 5 | Number of letters in the word "six" |
| 42% | ABBA | 4 | Swedish pop band that has the first letter of each member on its name |
| 42% | AYE | 3 | Word that sounds like a letter of the alphabet that's not in it |
| 42% | GIRLONFIRE | 10 | 2012 Alicia Keys song that shares its name with the nickname of Katniss in "The Hunger Games": 3 wds. |
| 42% | DUNKIRK | 7 | English name for the port in Nord, France, that saw a mass evacuation of troops in 1940 |
| 42% | TRE | 3 | Italian number whose letters are the first, third and fifth letters of its English equivalent |