| 100% | IOWA | 4 | State whose land became part of the US in the Louisiana Purchase |
| 47% | IOWA | 4 | State that was part of the Louisiana Purchase |
| 47% | COUNCILHOUSING | 14 | Part of the welfare state in the U.K. |
| 44% | JAMESMADISON | 12 | US Secretary of State (and fourth president) who oversaw the Louisiana Purchase: 2 wds. |
| 43% | IOWA | 4 | All of it was in the Louisiana Purchase |
| 42% | EST | 3 | Part or all of 22 states in the US spend part of the year observing this (abbr.) |
| 41% | KANSAS | 6 | Part of the Louisiana Purchase |
| 41% | RHODE | 5 | Part of the name of the smallest U.S. state |
| 39% | DOWNTOWN | 8 | Area known as the main part of a city in the US |
| 39% | LATINO | 6 | Part of the largest ethnic minority in the U.S. |
| 39% | SODA | 4 | Generic term for a carbonated beverage, in certain parts of the U.S. |
| 39% | POP | 3 | Generic term for a carbonated beverage, in certain parts of the U.S. |
| 39% | FEN | 3 | Descriptive of the land in much of coastal Louisiana |
| 38% | WILLESDEN | 9 | Former municipal borough of Middlesex that became part of the borough of Brent in 1965 |
| 38% | STEPNEY | 7 | Former Metropolitan Borough that became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in 1965 |
| 38% | ALBERTI | 7 | Leon Battista —, 15th-century Italian architect whose works include part of the facade of the Santa Maria Novella in Florence |
| 38% | POWELL | 6 | U.S. secretary of state raised in the Bronx |
| 38% | TULSA | 5 | City in the US state of Oklahoma |
| 37% | KANSAS | 6 | US state where Dorothy lives in the Wizard of Oz |
| 37% | COUNTY | 6 | Largest division of a state in the US |
| 37% | PORTLAND | 8 | Biggest city in the US state of Maine |
| 37% | ILIAMNA | 7 | — Lake, largest in the US state of Alaska |
| 37% | DAKOTA | 6 | Word in the names of two US states |
| 37% | EEL | 3 | Long fish whose back is part of the race route, in Mario Kart 8’s Dolphin Shoals |
| 37% | OHIO | 4 | State with four of the 100 largest cities in the US |
| 37% | HANOVER | 7 | Kingdom state, became a part of Germany in 1871 |
| 37% | CHICAGO | 7 | Most populated city in the US state of Illinois |
| 37% | ELK | 3 | — Mountains, range of the Rockies in Colorado, US, whose highest point is Castle Peak |
| 37% | PICAYUNE | 8 | Spanish-American half real coin formerly used in parts of the southern United States |
| 37% | TEXAS | 5 | State with three of the 10 most populous cities in the US |