| 100% | IFE | 3 | University town in central Nigeria; a centre of the cocoa trade |
| 45% | ELON | 4 | University in a town of the same name |
| 44% | IWO | 3 | City in Osun, SW Nigeria; a major trading centre for cocoa |
| 43% | ABILENE | 7 | US university town in central Texas associated with the oil refining industry |
| 43% | UNALASKA | 8 | Island off SW Alaska, formerly a centre of the Russian fur trade |
| 43% | HUDDERSFIELD | 12 | University town in West Yorkshire; administrative centre of Kirklees Council |
| 42% | WARWICK | 7 | Town in central England on the River Avon that houses a castle |
| 42% | MILTONKEYNES | 12 | Town in Buckinghamshire; headquarters of the Open University |
| 40% | MERCHANT | 8 | A person involved in the trading of goods |
| 39% | COALPORT | 8 | Town in Shropshire on the River Severn associated with a type of porcelain |
| 39% | RENO | 4 | The University of Nevada, ___ (school in a gambling city) |
| 39% | HOTAN | 5 | Town in Xinjiang, China, north of the Kunlun Mountains; an early centre of Buddhism |
| 39% | STELLENBOSCH | 12 | University town in Western Cape, South Africa, on the banks of the Eerste River |
| 39% | OLNEY | 5 | Town in the Borough of Milton Keynes associated with a Shrove Tuesday pancake race |
| 39% | NOVOSIBIRSK | 11 | University city in Russia; the largest industrial centre of Siberia |
| 39% | LEON | 4 | University city in Nicaragua; a former capital of the country |
| 39% | HALIFAX | 7 | A town in England and the capital of Nova Scotia |
| 39% | OLE | 3 | ___ Miss (nickname of a university in the SEC) |
| 38% | DENBIGH | 7 | Market town in the Vale of Clwyd, N Wales housing a ruined castle |
| 38% | LEON | 4 | University city in NW Nicaragua; a former capital of the country |
| 38% | LEON | 4 | University city in northwest Nicaragua; a former capital of the country |
| 38% | RAMSBOTTOM | 10 | Town in Greater Manchester that shares its name with a snake companion of the puppet Sooty |
| 38% | COLENSO | 7 | Town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; scene of a December 1899 battle in the Second Boer War |
| 37% | EDINBURGH | 9 | A town in Indiana that shares its name with the capital of Scotland |
| 37% | PRINCETON | 9 | US university town in central New Jersey |
| 36% | MAINST | 6 | Sign in the heart of many a small town's downtown (2 wds.) |
| 36% | KINGSLYNN | 9 | Market town in Norfolk at the mouth of the Great Ouse; a leading port in the Middle Ages |
| 36% | ADAMS | 5 | John ___, second President of the United States after whom a town in Jefferson County, New York is named |
| 36% | EPERNAY | 7 | Town on the River Marne, France; a centre of the champagne industry |
| 36% | KRONSTADT | 9 | Town in St Petersburg, Russia; site of a 1921 rebellion on an island in the Gulf of Finland |