| 100% | PNS | 3 | US facility located in Kittery that repairs and modernizes submarines (abbr.) |
| 30% | OBO | 3 | "... and that price is negotiable," in classifieds: Abbr. |
| 30% | ACLU | 4 | Group that defends rights in the US: Abbr. |
| 30% | ESP | 3 | Prison that's a US National Historic Landmark in Philadelphia and now a full-time museum (abbr.) |
| 29% | CSA | 3 | Side in the US Civil War that surrendered in 1865: Abbr. |
| 29% | OED | 3 | British reference work that added “sharenting” and “sharesies” in 2022: Abbr. |
| 29% | CMA | 3 | Group that honored Chris Stapleton and Carly Pearce in 2021: Abbr. |
| 29% | PBS | 3 | Network that airs "Downton Abbey" in the US: Abbr. |
| 29% | GROCERY | 7 | Store that sells food and goods in the US |
| 29% | EMI | 3 | Org. that supports Homeland Security and FEMA by improving competency of officials involved in US disaster response (abbr.) |
| 29% | NSA | 3 | Security and surveillance body in the U.S.: Abbr. |
| 29% | ETC | 3 | US facility in Mainz-Kastel, Wiesbaden, Germany, that's the NSA's primary European communications hub |
| 29% | AVE | 3 | Abbr. that follows every state in DC except for California and Ohio |
| 29% | ILO | 3 | U.N. agency that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1969: Abbr. |
| 29% | ILL | 3 | State that Barack Obama represented in the US Senate: Abbr. |
| 29% | MLB | 3 | Organization that the Yankees and Red Sox play in: Abbr. |
| 29% | AREA | 4 | ___ 51, highly classified US facility that has given rise to many urban myths in Nevada |
| 28% | HELICOPTERPARENTS | 17 | "___? That's me and your mom when we're in a chopper" |
| 28% | REALGAR | 7 | Rare orange-red mineral that occurs in Romania and Utah, US |
| 28% | FLAN | 4 | Dessert name that has different meanings in the UK and US |
| 28% | YMCA | 4 | Community facility that often has a gym and pool, in brief |
| 28% | SNL | 3 | Comedy show that added Heidi Gardner and Chris Redd in 2017: Abbr. |
| 28% | USP | 3 | Male and female facility in Draper, southwest of Salt Lake City, that currently has a capacity of over 4,000 (abbr.) |
| 28% | UCLA | 4 | West Coast school that's the most applied to in the US: Abbr. |
| 28% | HACKENSACK | 10 | River in New Jersey and New York, US, that flows into Newark Bay |
| 28% | USSR | 4 | Nation that split into Russia and 14 other nations in the 1990s: Abbr. |
| 28% | GLOBE | 5 | Golden ___ Award, U.S.-based award that recognizes excellence in film and TV |
| 27% | ITT | 3 | US co., headed by Sosthenes and Hernand Behn, that became the sole telephone provider in Spain in 1924 (abbr.) |
| 27% | ZION | 4 | National park located in southwestern Utah that was featured in the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" |
| 27% | TRIDENT | 7 | Type of US submarine-launched ballistic missile that replaced Poseidon and Polaris from 1979 |