| 100% | ORNE | 4 | River in D-Day news |
| 69% | ORNE | 4 | River in the D-Day invasion |
| 63% | ORNE | 4 | D Day river |
| 62% | EBOLA | 5 | River in 1976 news |
| 58% | WAIKATO | 7 | Longest river in New Zealand |
| 57% | SOMME | 5 | French river in W.W. I news |
| 55% | TET | 3 | New Year's Day, in Hanoi |
| 54% | MAITLAND | 8 | Old settlement on Hunter River in New South Wales |
| 54% | ROSEPARADE | 10 | New Year's Day event in Pasadena |
| 53% | HACKENSACK | 10 | River in New Jersey and New York, US, that flows into Newark Bay |
| 51% | ORNE | 4 | D-Day river |
| 51% | SCROD | 5 | Catch of the day, say, in New England |
| 50% | ORNE | 4 | D-Day invasion river |
| 50% | TRUMP | 5 | Name in many New York Times headlines these days |
| 49% | MURRUMBIDGEE | 12 | River rising in New South Wales, Australia, upon which Wagga Wagga stands |
| 49% | REEVE | 5 | D A —, cricketer; 1992 England Test debutant against New Zealand in Christchurch |
| 48% | OSWEGO | 6 | — River, large stream in upstate New York, US, flowing into Lake Ontario |
| 46% | AVE | 3 | New York or Wisconsin, in D.C. |
| 46% | MURRAY | 6 | River rising in New South Wales, Australia, that flows into the sea at Encounter Bay |
| 46% | BOON | 4 | D C —, Australia Test cricketer who hit 200 against New Zealand in Perth in 1989 |
| 46% | EURO | 4 | Coin that's been legal tender since New Year's Day in 2002 |
| 45% | INDIA | 5 | New Delhi's country that was the host nation for the World Environment Day in 2018 |
| 45% | NASH | 4 | D J —, New Zealand Test cricketer who took 6-27 against India in Mohali in 1999 |
| 45% | MACYS | 5 | World's largest Thanksgiving Day Parade that is celebrated in New York every year |
| 45% | TAG | 3 | A day in Düsseldorf |
| 45% | YSER | 4 | River in Belgium |
| 45% | EBRO | 4 | River in Spain |
| 45% | EDER | 4 | River in Hesse |
| 45% | LETHE | 5 | River in Hades |
| 45% | ARNO | 4 | River in Tuscany |