| 100% | GORGE | 5 | Valley with a river running through it |
| 80% | CANYON | 6 | Deep gorge with a river running through it |
| 69% | DELTA | 5 | A river runs through it |
| 67% | CANYON | 6 | Often a river runs through it |
| 66% | MACLEAN | 7 | Norman, author of A River Runs Through It |
| 65% | MACLEAN | 7 | Paul __, young brother in A River Runs Through It |
| 61% | LLOYD | 5 | Emily —, actress who played Jessie Burns in 1992 film drama A River Runs Through It |
| 61% | LLOYD | 5 | Emily of "A River Runs Through It" |
| 59% | MACLEAN | 7 | Norman who wrote "A River Runs Through It" |
| 58% | CANON | 5 | A river (often) runs through it |
| 57% | VALE | 4 | A river might run through it |
| 53% | TEMPE | 5 | The Salt River runs through it |
| 52% | DELTA | 5 | A river runs to it |
| 52% | THREADED | 8 | Describes a needle with cotton running through it |
| 50% | STREAM | 6 | Small river running through a forest |
| 50% | ISERE | 5 | French department or a river that runs through it |
| 49% | RUNS | 4 | A River does this Through It |
| 46% | SUNOCO | 6 | Brand with a red arrow through its logo |
| 46% | GLEN | 4 | A stream might run through it |
| 45% | RUSH | 4 | Run with the ball through a hole |
| 45% | IKEA | 4 | Store with a one-way route through its cavernous space |
| 44% | RHONE | 5 | River with its source in a Swiss glacier |
| 44% | BIB | 3 | Sheet with a marathon runner's number on it |
| 44% | CUT | 3 | Run around like a chicken with its head ___ off |
| 44% | HEAD | 4 | Run around like a chicken with its ___ cut off |
| 44% | OFF | 3 | Run around like a chicken with its head cut ___ |
| 43% | DISH | 4 | It ran away with the spoon, in a nursery rhyme |
| 42% | SENEGAL | 7 | River in West Africa that shares its name with a country it flows through |
| 42% | TENTS | 5 | “You can’t run through a campground. You can only ran, because it’s past ___” |
| 41% | RELAY | 5 | Sport with a baton where a runner races to pass it to the next running player |