| 100% | NAE | 3 | US org. that advised in 1971 that the Port Authority of NY and NJ not construct additional runways at JFK airport |
| 29% | AER | 3 | Nonprofit financial assistance org. HQed in Arlington that helps US Army soldiers and dependents in the form of grants or loans (abbr.) |
| 28% | REALGAR | 7 | Rare orange-red mineral that occurs in Romania and the US state of Utah |
| 28% | MEA | 3 | National flag-carrier that does not fly to the US and has its base at Rafic Hariri International Airport (abbr.) |
| 27% | DULUTH | 6 | Port in Minnesota, US, at the west end of Lake Superior |
| 27% | BUFFALO | 7 | Port in New York State, US, at the eastern end of Lake Erie |
| 27% | BUFFALO | 7 | US port in New York State at the eastern end of Lake Erie |
| 27% | CMA | 3 | Org. that awarded Taylor Swift "Entertainer of the Year" in 2009 and 2011 |
| 26% | ANS | 3 | Org. that promotes the study of onomastics and whose annual conference is in SF next January |
| 26% | MAINZ | 5 | Port in Germany at the confluence of the Rivers Rhine and Main |
| 26% | LSAT | 4 | US joint service program initiated in 2004 aimed at reducing the weight of weaponry and ammunition (abbr.) |
| 25% | GOOLE | 5 | Inland port in the East Riding of Yorkshire at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Don |
| 25% | PADUCAH | 7 | City in Kentucky, US, at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers |
| 25% | EMI | 3 | Org. that supports Homeland Security and FEMA by improving competency of officials involved in US disaster response (abbr.) |
| 25% | SLOTS | 5 | Some chancy things that will get you in the right frame of mind at Reno-Tahoe International Airport |
| 25% | EAST | 4 | Only cardinal direction that’s not in the name of a U.S. state |
| 25% | ISP | 3 | Org. that provides on-line access and in the US, has to allow law agencies to monitor their transmissions |
| 25% | EAST | 4 | Only cardinal direction that does not appear in the name of a U.S. state |
| 25% | XXXXXXXXXXXX | 12 | Moves in the shape of A's, O's and U's at a disco? |
| 25% | BOBBY | 5 | "Me and ___ McGee," cover by Janis Joplin that topped the US Billboard Hot 100 post its posthumous release in 1971 |
| 24% | ESCORT | 6 | Ford model that was the direct replacement of the Pinto in 1981 and became the best selling car in the US |
| 24% | THE | 3 | "All in ___ Family," CBS sitcom about the life of a working-class father and his family that ran from 1971 - 1979 |
| 24% | CLOUD | 5 | Type of storage that allows us to access our files and data from anywhere in the world |
| 24% | OCA | 3 | Religious org. under the leadership of Metropolitan Tikhon Mollard, that has over 450 parishes in the US (abbr.) |
| 24% | RSA | 3 | US org. that researches the ancient art of persuasion (abbr.) |
| 24% | ERA | 3 | The Postwar ___ (span of US history that began in 1945) |
| 23% | TSA | 3 | Organization that may not allow water bottles at the airport: Abbr. |
| 23% | DAU | 3 | John ___, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, featured in "God Grew Tired of Us" that won a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2006 |
| 23% | GAR | 3 | Fraternal org. for US Civil War vets founded in 1866 and dissolved with the death of its last member in 1956 |
| 23% | TAMPA | 5 | US port and resort on the west coast of Florida |