| 100% | BATH | 4 | Setting for David's "The Death of Marat" |
| 75% | TUB | 3 | Setting for Jacques-Louis David's painting "The Death of Marat" |
| 56% | EDT | 3 | Setting for home games of the O's |
| 55% | CAPEANN | 7 | Setting for Longfellow's "The Wreck of the Hesperus" |
| 55% | DENVER | 6 | Setting for part of Kerouac's "On the Road" |
| 54% | EDT | 3 | Setting for the PGA Tour's first major of the year |
| 52% | BELAIR | 6 | Los Angeles setting for the ascension of television's "Fresh Prince" |
| 51% | ABBEY | 5 | Setting for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" |
| 51% | SEA | 3 | Setting for much of the "Odyssey" |
| 50% | OESTE | 5 | Setting for the setting of el sol |
| 50% | PADUA | 5 | Setting for "The Taming of the Shrew" |
| 50% | TARA | 4 | Setting for the biggest movie of 1939 |
| 50% | INDIA | 5 | Setting for much of the movie "Lion" |
| 50% | TOMB | 4 | Setting for the very end of "Aida" |
| 50% | TIBET | 5 | Setting for the novel "The Magician of Lhasa" |
| 50% | PAST | 4 | Setting for much of "Back to the Future" |
| 50% | TARA | 4 | Setting for the highest-grossing movie of 1939 |
| 50% | CAVERN | 6 | Setting for a Pirates of the Caribbean ride |
| 50% | SYR | 3 | Setting for 400+ miles of the Euphrates: Abbr. |
| 50% | CAFE | 4 | Setting for many Manet paintings of the bourgeoisie |
| 50% | HOMETOWN | 8 | Setting for the early chapters of a biography |
| 50% | ASIA | 4 | Setting for nearly half of Around the World ... |
| 49% | UTAH | 4 | Setting for the beginning of "The Book of Mormon" |
| 49% | ABBEY | 5 | Setting for the start of "The Sound of Music" |
| 49% | EGYPT | 5 | Setting for Agatha Christie's "Death on the Nile" |
| 49% | ALASKANINTERIOR | 15 | Setting for much of the 33-Across/16-Down |
| 49% | TORTUGA | 7 | Island setting for "Pirates of the Caribbean" |
| 49% | PST | 3 | Ore. setting for part of the year |
| 48% | IOWA | 4 | State that's the setting for "The Bridges of Madison County" |
| 48% | SWEDEN | 6 | Setting for much of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” |