| 100% | THAMES | 6 | River that "sweats oil and tar" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" |
| 52% | THAMES | 6 | "Sweet" locale in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" |
| 51% | ELEGANT | 7 | Word rhymed with "intelligent" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" |
| 45% | PARTV | 5 | Final section of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" |
| 44% | STEARNS | 7 | Middle name of T S Eliot, author of 1922 poem The Waste Land |
| 43% | APRIL | 5 | "___ is the cruellest month" (opening of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land") |
| 39% | MURDER | 6 | T. S. Eliot’s “___ in the Cathedral” |
| 39% | ELIOT | 5 | "The Waste Land" poet T.S. ___ who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 |
| 39% | YSER | 4 | River that rises in France and reaches the North Sea at Belgium's Nieuwpoort |
| 38% | STYX | 4 | River that separates Earth and the Underworld, in Greek myth |
| 38% | STEARNS | 7 | The S in poet T. S. Eliot's name |
| 37% | WASTELAND | 9 | The —, modernist poem in five sections by T S Eliot first published in 1922 |
| 36% | STEARNS | 7 | The "S" in T.S. Eliot |
| 34% | ATYRAU | 6 | City in Kazakhstan on the Ural River associated with the oil and fish industries |
| 34% | TULSA | 5 | City and major oil centre in Oklahoma, US on the Arkansas River |
| 34% | DEE | 3 | River in North Wales and Cheshire that flows to the Irish Sea |
| 33% | KEYS | 4 | *Lock openers, and things that might land in a junk drawer when the locks are lost |
| 33% | YSER | 4 | 48 mi. Belgian river that rises in French Flanders and reaches the North Sea at Nieuwpoort |
| 33% | ORD | 3 | River in Western Australia that flows north to Cambridge Gulf and the Timor Sea |
| 33% | TULSA | 5 | City and major oil centre in Oklahoma, US, on the Arkansas River |
| 33% | LOA | 3 | 270 mi. river that's the main watercourse in the Atacama Desert |
| 33% | SEINE | 5 | River that's the setting for van Gogh's "Fishing in Spring" |
| 33% | OSAGE | 5 | 276-mile-long Missouri river that the Harry S. Truman Reservoir and the Lake of the Ozarks sits on |
| 33% | LAND | 4 | "The Waste ___," poem by T.S. Eliot that is considered a seminal work for modernist poetry |
| 33% | ORANGE | 6 | River rising in the Drakensberg mountains that forms the boundary between South Africa and Namibia |
| 33% | RANCE | 5 | River in NW France that flows into the English Channel between Dinard and Saint-Malo |
| 32% | LOWFAT | 6 | Food that isn't high in oils and greases |
| 32% | NILE | 4 | Egyptian river that's the longest in the world |
| 32% | WYE | 3 | Maryland river that lent its name to the memorandum negotiated between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 1998 |
| 32% | SEIN | 4 | River that's the site of Javert's demise in "Les Misérables" |