| 100% | DRPEPPER | 8 | Product whose name lost its period in the 1950s |
| 43% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose name ends in the same three letters as its capital |
| 41% | ORCA | 4 | Animal whose name consists of the postal codes of two states it passes in its migration |
| 39% | PEPSI | 5 | Product whose name comes from the Greek for "digestion" |
| 39% | SANKA | 5 | Product whose name comes from the French for "without caffeine" |
| 38% | EXETER | 6 | City in Devon whose name contains the river on which it is situated |
| 37% | SOCK | 4 | It may lose its mate in the laundry |
| 37% | EGGO | 4 | Brand whose last letter is in the shape of its product |
| 36% | SPAM | 4 | Food product whose name is used nowadays mostly in a nonfood way |
| 36% | JCREW | 5 | Clothing retailer with a period in its name |
| 36% | LARCH | 5 | Conifer that loses its leaves in the fall |
| 36% | LARCH | 5 | Conifer that loses its needles in the autumn |
| 36% | HOAGIE | 6 | Sandwich whose name originated in the Philly area |
| 36% | THEMATRIX | 9 | A 1999 Sci-Fi film in which Keanu Reeves - whose birthday it is today - portrays the main character, named "Neo": 2 wds. |
| 36% | KIWI | 4 | Bird whose name is the same as its call |
| 36% | ARENAFOOTBALL | 13 | Sport played in the first word of its name |
| 36% | PLATYPUS | 8 | Animal whose name often has duck-billed in it |
| 36% | ERA | 3 | Period whose name might end in "-zoic" |
| 35% | JUNE | 4 | * ___ Cleaver, mother to Wally and Theodore in the 1950s sitcom "Leave It to Beaver" |
| 35% | CARFAX | 6 | Company whose name appears in an odometer in its logo |
| 35% | ALBANY | 6 | Capital whose name ends in its state's postal code |
| 35% | ASTER | 5 | Flower whose name derives from the shape of its cluster |
| 35% | ARBYS | 5 | Chain whose name derives from its founders, the Raffel brothers |
| 35% | AXSEED | 6 | Plant whose name reflects the sharp shape of its pods |
| 35% | REM | 3 | "Shiny Happy People" band with three periods in its name |
| 35% | GPT | 3 | Letters after “Chat” in the name of an OpenAI product |
| 35% | JOE | 3 | Action figure whose name often has "G.I." in it |
| 35% | OSLO | 4 | Norway city whose name appears in the center of "Czechoslovakia" |
| 35% | AETNA | 5 | Insurance giant whose name sounds like the volcano in Sicily |
| 35% | KLM | 3 | Airline whose name is three consecutive consonants in the alphabet |