| 100% | PEEDEE | 6 | River with its source in the Appalachians |
| 67% | RHONE | 5 | River with its source in a Swiss glacier |
| 50% | HEP | 3 | With it, in the 50's |
| 46% | BUDGENS | 7 | Supermarket with its first stores in the south |
| 45% | ITASCA | 6 | Lake —, source in Minnesota, US, of the Mississippi River |
| 45% | TEA | 3 | Drink with its own character in the Chinese alphabet |
| 45% | DAM | 3 | It stops the current in a river |
| 45% | ATLANTA | 7 | It burns in "Gone With the Wind" |
| 45% | AFL | 3 | It merged with the CIO in 1955 |
| 45% | CIO | 3 | It merged with the AFL in 1955 |
| 45% | ABA | 3 | It merged with the NBA in 1976 |
| 45% | FIJI | 4 | Island nation in the Pacific with Suva as its capital |
| 45% | LENA | 4 | River known for the goldfields in its basin |
| 44% | ARABSPRING | 10 | It began in 2010 with the Tunisian Revolution |
| 44% | DISH | 4 | It fled with the spoon, in a rhyme |
| 44% | BUTTERFLIES | 11 | "___ in the stomach," phrase for nervousness with a "fluttery" insect in it |
| 44% | SCREW | 5 | Item in the hardware department with a "+" or "-" on its head |
| 44% | HAI | 3 | River in China connecting Beijing with the Bohai Sea |
| 44% | RAJQUARTET | 10 | "The Jewel in the Crown" begins it, with "The" |
| 44% | IRAQWAR | 7 | It started in 2003 with the bombing of Baghdad |
| 44% | EVIAN | 5 | Water with the Alps in its logo |
| 44% | ORINOCO | 7 | River with the second-largest discharge volume in the New World, after the Amazon |
| 43% | SHEAF | 5 | River in Sheffield from which the city derives its name |
| 43% | DISH | 4 | It ran away with the spoon, in a nursery rhyme |
| 43% | XAXIS | 5 | It lines up with the line y = 0, in math |
| 43% | MEANING | 7 | With 18-Across, it puts the fun in a pun |
| 43% | OISE | 4 | French river with three vowels in its name |
| 43% | IRIS | 4 | Eye part with the pupil in its center |
| 43% | GLARUS | 6 | Canton in central Switzerland with the Linth River |
| 43% | BROOKLYN | 8 | __ Bridge, it crosses the East River in NY |