| 100% | LETHE | 5 | River in Dante's "Inferno" |
| 76% | CANTO | 5 | Poetic division in Dante's Inferno |
| 72% | UNDERWORLD | 10 | Locale in Dante's "Inferno" |
| 68% | NEL | 3 | First word in Dante's "Inferno" |
| 66% | LIMBO | 5 | First circle of hell in Dante's "Inferno" |
| 65% | BRUTUS | 6 | Historic figure grouped with Judas in Dante's "Inferno" |
| 63% | VIRGIL | 6 | Dante's guide in the "Inferno" |
| 63% | ISCARIOT | 8 | Resident of the lowest circle of hell, in Dante's "Inferno" |
| 59% | HELL | 4 | Dante's inferno |
| 57% | CANTO | 5 | Division of Dante’s Inferno |
| 57% | ABEND | 5 | V. S. Naipaul's "___ in the River" |
| 57% | SINS | 4 | Septet in Dante's "Purgatorio" |
| 56% | PLOVDIV | 7 | City in S Bulgaria on the Maritsa River |
| 56% | KANDAHAR | 8 | City in S Afghanistan on the Arghandab River |
| 56% | NAIPAUL | 7 | V. S. __, wrote A Bend in the River |
| 56% | ATTILA | 6 | Barbarian in Dante's Seventh Circle |
| 56% | NEVA | 4 | River in U.S.S.R. |
| 55% | ANGEL | 5 | Haloed creature appearing in Dante's Paradiso |
| 53% | LUST | 4 | Crime of those in Dante's second circle |
| 53% | ANGER | 5 | Sin of those in Dante's fifth circle |
| 53% | XXXXX | 5 | Any of 100 in Dante's "Divine Comedy" |
| 53% | STYX | 4 | River that comprises the fifth circle of Dante's Inferno |
| 52% | ADANA | 5 | City in S Turkey on the Seyhan River east of Tarsus |
| 52% | SWANEE | 6 | River in Stephen Foster's "Old Folks at Home" |
| 52% | WABASH | 6 | River in the title of Indiana's state song |
| 51% | PARADISE | 8 | Dante's realm along with Inferno and Purgatory |
| 51% | KWAI | 4 | Title river in 1957's Best Picture |
| 50% | AVON | 4 | Shakespeare's river in Stratford |
| 50% | NILE | 4 | River in northeastern Africa that is Egypt's main water source |
| 50% | NEL | 3 | First word of Dante's Inferno |