| 100% | ABO | 3 | Pass heavily used by the BNSF Railway between Belen, NM and Mountainair, NM |
| 30% | EURO | 4 | Currency used by the Irish and Italians |
| 30% | EURO | 4 | Currency used by the Germans and Greeks |
| 30% | EURO | 4 | Currency used by the French and the Finnish |
| 28% | COWABUNGA | 9 | Slang word used by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Bart Simpson |
| 28% | UMIAK | 5 | Open boat made of skin used by the Yupik and Inuit peoples |
| 28% | KAYAK | 5 | Style of boat first used by the Aleut, Inuit, and Yupik peoples |
| 28% | CAMOUFLAGE | 10 | "Trick" used by the creatures found in rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 |
| 28% | VEE | 3 | Sound made by the letter between U and W? |
| 28% | PAKISTAN | 8 | The Khyber Pass lies between Afghanistan and __ |
| 27% | MISLED | 6 | Song title used by Kool & the Gang and Celine Dion |
| 27% | RAFT | 4 | Transportation used by Huck and Jim down the Mississippi River |
| 27% | YERBA | 5 | ___ mate, traditionally consumed as a drink in Paraguay and originally used by the Guaraní people |
| 27% | ABBEYROAD | 9 | Music studios used by The Beatles (and crossing!) |
| 26% | GULF | 4 | — War, 1991 conflict between coalition forces led by the United States and Iraq |
| 26% | BLIGHTY | 7 | Term for England used by soldiers of the First and Second World Wars |
| 26% | EXPIRE | 6 | Pass the "use by" date |
| 26% | CODEWORDS | 9 | Lexicon used by spies, and a key to the ends of the starred answers |
| 26% | GULF | 4 | — War, 1990-91 conflict between coalition forces led by the United States and Iraq |
| 26% | ULTRON | 6 | AI made by Banner and Stark using the Mind Stone |
| 26% | DIVEBOMB | 8 | Rapid, pitch lowering guitar playing technique pioneered by Jimi Hendrix and used by the Stones, Van Halen and others |
| 26% | PAPALSTATES | 11 | Those territories of central Italy held by the Catholic Church between the middle of the 8th century and 1870 |
| 26% | LAV | 3 | "___-25": 8-wheeled amphibious carrier used by the USMC in both the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan |
| 26% | AAR | 3 | De-briefing process used by the military to find out what, why and how about a particular event (abbr.) |
| 26% | SHUTTLE | 7 | Bobbin-like device used in weaving for passing the weft thread between the warp threads |
| 26% | CEMENT | 6 | Product heavily used today named after Portland, UK and patented by Joseph Aspdin in 1824 |
| 26% | GENEVA | 6 | Lake —, body of water between Switzerland and France fed and drained by the River Rhone |
| 25% | TWEEN | 5 | Word for someone between 9 and 12 that was first used by J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 25% | RIOTACT | 7 | Legislation designed to prevent civil disorder passed by the government in 1715 and repealed in 1967 |
| 25% | ICHAT | 5 | Old instant messaging app used on the Mac OS X and replaced by "Messages" in 2012 |