| 100% | REI | 3 | Outdoor-gear retailer whose name can be spelled from letters in retailer |
| 63% | EWOK | 4 | Sci-fi creature whose name can be spelled with letters in Wookiee |
| 56% | BEN | 3 | With 22-Across, former senator whose name can be spelled using only the letters in NEBRASKA (his home state) |
| 48% | DEMIMOORE | 9 | Actress whose full name can be made from the letters of DO RE MI |
| 48% | ADDAMS | 6 | Surname of a family whose members can be found in nine rows in this puzzle ... and whose names contain circled letters that, reading down, spell a word describing them |
| 47% | TUNIS | 5 | World capital whose name can be formed by removing letters from the end of its country's name |
| 46% | SEALS | 5 | Animals whose habitat can be found in the first three letters of their name |
| 45% | ACDC | 4 | Band whose name can be spelled with music notes |
| 43% | ELI | 3 | Biblical priest whose name can be found in "belief" |
| 42% | ENO | 3 | Brian ___ of ambient music whose name can be found in "tenor" |
| 42% | SEAL | 4 | Sea-lion relative whose name can be found in “sea lion” |
| 42% | PEZ | 3 | Tablet-shaped candy whose name was derived from the first, middle, and last letters in the German word for peppermint |
| 41% | ESSO | 4 | Company whose name is derived from two letters |
| 41% | TEN | 3 | Largest integer whose name is spelled with three letters |
| 40% | SCHMEAR | 7 | It can aptly be spelled with letters from "cream cheese" |
| 40% | ELAL | 4 | Company whose name is derived from a passage in Hosea |
| 40% | CENA | 4 | John who plays a mercenary in "Peacemaker," and whose name can be found in "mercenary" |
| 40% | TALKINGHEADS | 12 | Band whose name was taken from a term in TV Guide |
| 40% | SCHMEAR | 7 | Bagel spread that can be spelled with the letters in cream cheese |
| 39% | STU | 3 | Name that can be found in the letters preceding V |
| 39% | ANI | 3 | DiFranco whose first name can be found backward in her song title "Binary" |
| 39% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer-winning author whose name is found in nonconsecutive letters of "page turner" |
| 39% | INXS | 4 | Australian band whose name is spelled in all caps |
| 39% | OBAMA | 5 | President born on August 4, whose name can be found backward in 17-, 31-, 47- and 63-Across |
| 38% | PION | 4 | Subatomic particle whose name is derived from a Greek letter |
| 38% | FIJI | 4 | Country whose name is one letter different from a mountain |
| 38% | DAHL | 4 | Author whose name is one letter off from 31-Down |
| 38% | ETA | 3 | Greek letter whose name is found in "theta" and "beta" |
| 38% | HARPO | 5 | "The Color Purple" character whose name spelled backward is an actress in the same movie |
| 38% | LLAMA | 5 | Mammal whose name is spelled using only the letters of "mammal" |