| 100% | WACO | 4 | U.S. radio station whose call letters spell the name of its city |
| 69% | WACO | 4 | Only major U.S. city with a radio station whose call letters spell the city's name |
| 47% | WHOM | 4 | Maine radio station whose call letters spell a pronoun |
| 42% | TALLAHASSEE | 11 | Major U.S. city with three pairs of double letters in its name |
| 41% | WACO | 4 | City with a radio station that has the same call letters as the city's name |
| 39% | SALADATEA | 9 | Drink brand whose first five letters spell the name of a food |
| 39% | OHIO | 4 | Home of the U.S.'s largest cities whose names start with X and Z |
| 39% | HOLLYWOOD | 9 | Big hillside letters spell the name of Tinsel Town |
| 38% | ESSEN | 5 | European city whose name sounds like two letters of the alphabet |
| 38% | LLAMA | 5 | Mammal whose name is spelled using only the letters of "mammal" |
| 38% | KISS | 4 | Rock band whose name also forms the call letters for a rock radio station in San Antonio |
| 37% | ISR | 3 | U.S. ally whose capital has the letters U-S-A in the middle of its name: Abbr. |
| 36% | HILO | 4 | U.S. city whose name looks like a form of poker |
| 36% | WACO | 4 | U.S. city whose name is composed of two state abbreviations |
| 36% | LIMAOHIO | 8 | U.S. city whose name is pronounced differently from its foreign namesake |
| 36% | SDAK | 4 | Only U.S. state in which the name of the state and its capital share no letters: Abbr. |
| 36% | MISSISSIPPIRIVER | 16 | Landmark on which most U.S. radio stations base the starts of their call signs, with "W" on the east and "K" on the west [Algonquin] |
| 36% | LAO | 3 | Language that's the name of an Asian country minus its last letter |
| 35% | CISCO | 5 | Fortune 100 company whose name is the last two syllables of the city near where it was founded |
| 35% | RINGO | 5 | Rock star whose name is spelled out by the middle letters of 16-, 18-, 39-, 61- and 64-Across |
| 35% | KTEL | 4 | Record label that looks like the name of a radio station |
| 35% | STU | 3 | Man's name spelled with three consecutive letters of the alphabet |
| 34% | NORI | 4 | Food whose name spelled backwards is the name of a nutrient that it contains |
| 34% | SAN | 3 | Part of the name of four of the twenty most populous U.S. cities |
| 34% | SAN | 3 | Start of the names of three of the 10 most populous U.S. cities |
| 34% | ELLE | 4 | Women's magazine whose name sounds like a letter of the alphabet |
| 34% | TUNIS | 5 | World capital whose name can be formed by removing letters from the end of its country's name |
| 33% | 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 |
| 33% | BADGUY | 6 | Hit song by the 1-Across winner whose name is spelled out by the final three letters of 21-, 25-, 47- and 52-Across |
| 33% | ERIE | 4 | Pennsylvania city that shares the name of the Great Lake it's on |