| 100% | STALLION | 8 | The Black __, stranded on island with horse |
| 47% | MAMMA | 5 | With 33-Across, musical set on the island of Kalokairi |
| 47% | LIONS | 5 | Black Crowes album with a big cat on the cover |
| 46% | MAROON | 6 | Strand on island |
| 46% | CRAZY | 5 | With 3-Down, Emmy-winning role on "Orange is the New Black" |
| 46% | WAHIAWA | 7 | Town on Oahu Island, Hawaii, associated with the pineapple industry |
| 46% | CROATIA | 7 | Country on the Adriatic with more than 1,000 islands |
| 44% | HAITI | 5 | Nation on an island with the Dominican Republic |
| 43% | TAPATI | 6 | ___ Rapa Nui, annual festival celebrated on the Easter Island that ends with a coronation |
| 43% | COALTIT | 7 | Small European songbird with a black head and a white patch on the nape |
| 42% | LEI | 3 | Strand on an island? |
| 42% | MAROON | 6 | Strand on an island |
| 42% | HAIRS | 5 | Strands on the head |
| 42% | MAROONED | 8 | Stranded on a desert island |
| 41% | MAROON | 6 | Strand on a desert island |
| 41% | MAROONING | 9 | Stranding on a deserted island |
| 41% | STKITTS | 7 | Island with the volcano Mt. Liamuiga |
| 41% | STKITTS | 7 | Island with the capital city Basseterre |
| 40% | SEABISCUIT | 10 | 2003 sports film on a horse with a limp inspired by a 1999 book of the same name |
| 40% | TOBYKEITH | 9 | Singer who duetted with Willie Nelson on the 2003 #1 country hit "Beer for My Horses": 2 wds. |
| 40% | TAIWAN | 6 | Island with the Internet domain suffix TW |
| 40% | IRE | 3 | Island with the Carrauntoohil mountain, for short |
| 40% | ROPERUG | 7 | Something stranded on the floor? |
| 40% | STLUCIA | 7 | Caribbean island with the Pitons |
| 39% | ASTRAKHAN | 9 | City in Russia on the delta of the Volga River associated with a type of black or grey fur |
| 39% | ABOAT | 5 | "I'm on ___" (The Lonely Island song with the lyric "I got my swim trunks, and my flippie-floppies") |
| 39% | FIJI | 4 | I'm an island country in the South Pacific Ocean with a white dove and lion on my flag |
| 39% | FAMINE | 6 | The black horse of the apocalypse represents this |
| 39% | CASTAWAYS | 9 | People stranded on a desert island |