| 100% | VERMONT | 7 | State whose last four letters are the first four letters of its capital |
| 85% | TOPEKA | 6 | Capital whose last two letters are the first two letters of its state |
| 64% | KRIS | 4 | Singer whose first name is the first four letters of his last name |
| 57% | SOLID | 5 | State whose last two letters are the postal abbreviation for a different kind of state |
| 57% | MOSCOW | 6 | World capital whose last two letters are its first two letters upside down |
| 55% | ONE | 3 | Number of states whose last two letters are its own postal abbreviation |
| 55% | OPAL | 4 | Birthstone whose first letter is the same as that of its month |
| 52% | TRE | 3 | Italian number whose letters are the first, third and fifth letters of its English equivalent |
| 52% | EGGO | 4 | Brand whose last letter is in the shape of its product |
| 52% | VERMONT | 7 | State whose capital starts with its last four letters |
| 47% | ALDA | 4 | Famous Alan whose last name shares three of the four letters of ALAN |
| 47% | TUNIS | 5 | World capital whose name can be formed by removing letters from the end of its country's name |
| 46% | NSYNC | 5 | Band with the song "Bye Bye Bye" whose name is an acronym of the last letters of the members' first names |
| 46% | QUEUE | 5 | Word that's pronounced the same after its last four letters are removed |
| 45% | SEALS | 5 | Animals whose habitat can be found in the first three letters of their name |
| 45% | QUEUE | 5 | Only English word that's pronounced the same after its last four letters are removed |
| 45% | PERU | 4 | Country whose name becomes that of a currency when its second letter is doubled and its last two letters are moved to the front |
| 45% | ARKANSAS | 8 | State whose name is its own abbreviation plus the name of another state |
| 45% | TARPAULIN | 9 | Covering whose name is often shortened to its first four letters |
| 45% | HILO | 4 | City whose first two letters are its state's postal abbreviation |
| 45% | MAPLE | 5 | Tree whose first four letters are an anagram of another tree |
| 44% | PORT | 4 | Wine whose name is the first half of its country of origin |
| 44% | MASSACHUSETTS | 13 | State whose General Court was the first to recognize Fourth of July as a state celebration |
| 43% | BOISE | 5 | State capital that has the same number of letters as its state |
| 43% | OREO | 4 | Cookie in the shape of its first and last letters |
| 43% | THREE | 5 | First digit of this puzzle's subject, whose next four digits are the number of rows and then columns of the grid |
| 43% | ABBA | 4 | Group whose name combines the first letters of its members' names |
| 43% | COLECO | 6 | Old video game company whose first four letters match the middle four letters of 115 Across |
| 43% | ALCAPONE | 8 | Noted criminal whose name starts with the same first four letters as where he was imprisoned |
| 43% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |