| 100% | GATEWAYARCH | 11 | St. Louis landmark designed by Eero Saarinen in 1948 (2 wds.) |
| 88% | GATEWAYARCH | 11 | St. Louis landmark designed by Eero Saarinen in 1963 (2 wds.) |
| 46% | LIBERTYBELL | 11 | Philadelphia landmark designed by the Whitechapel Foundry in 1751 (2 wds.) |
| 45% | MOUNTRUSHMORE | 13 | Black Hills landmark designed by Gutzon Borglum in 1927 (2 wds.) |
| 37% | MIT | 3 | Its chapel was designed by Eero Saarinen, briefly |
| 37% | DEERE | 5 | Its Illinois headquarters were designed by Eero Saarinen |
| 36% | DULLES | 6 | Airport whose main terminal was designed by Eero Saarinen |
| 36% | STL | 3 | Site of an arch designed by Eero Saarinen: abbr. |
| 35% | TWA | 3 | Its hub at J.F.K. was designed by Eero Saarinen |
| 31% | ARCH | 4 | Curved landmark in St. Louis |
| 31% | EERO | 4 | Saarinen who designed St. Louis’s Gateway Arch |
| 31% | BERLINAIRLIFT | 13 | 1948 operation in Germany: 2 wds. |
| 29% | PHOEBEBUFFAY | 12 | Character played by Lisa Kudrow in "Friends": 2 wds. |
| 29% | SWIMCAP | 7 | Headgear worn by Michael Phelps in competition: 2 wds. |
| 29% | THEHAJ | 6 | Novel written by Leon Uris in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 28% | FINN | 4 | Eero Saarinen, by birth |
| 27% | ARCH | 4 | St. Louis landmark |
| 27% | GATEWAYARCH | 11 | St. Louis landmark |
| 27% | ELAINEBENES | 11 | Character played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus in a sitcom about "nothing" (2 wds.) |
| 27% | THEJOKER | 8 | Archvillain played by Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight": 2 wds. |
| 27% | ONEMOTIME | 9 | 2:00 in New York vis-à-vis St. Louis? |
| 27% | SPINGARNMEDAL | 13 | NAACP award received by Paul Robeson in 1945: 2 wds. |
| 27% | RIVERTAM | 8 | Sword wielder played by Summer Glau in "Serenity": 2 wds. |
| 27% | CAPEFEAR | 8 | 1962 thriller remade by Martin Scorsese in 1991: 2 wds. |
| 27% | BRIGHAMYOUNG | 12 | Religious leader pardoned by James Buchanan in 1858: 2 wds. |
| 27% | PATTYHEARST | 11 | Actress/heiress pardoned by Bill Clinton in 2001: 2 wds. |
| 27% | ARUT | 4 | In ___ (trapped by habit) (2 wds.) |
| 27% | EADS | 4 | St. Louis landmark designer |
| 27% | GATEWAYARCH | 11 | Monument on the Mississippi River in St. Louis that appears on the collectible quarter of the 43-Across (2 wds.) |
| 27% | JACKJOHNSON | 11 | Heavyweight boxer posthumously pardoned by Donald Trump in 2018: 2 wds. |