| 100% | GRAND | 5 | With 2-Down, U.S. national park that's larger than the entirety of Rhode Island |
| 42% | DENALI | 6 | National park that's larger than five states |
| 41% | COLORADOPLATEAU | 15 | Region with the highest concentration of national parks in the U.S. |
| 40% | PEARL | 5 | With 4 Down, site of the attack that on today's date in 1941 lead to the US entering WWII |
| 39% | TAIWAN | 6 | Asian island with the largest economy that's not part of the United Nations |
| 39% | TENOR | 5 | Type of saxophone that's larger than the alto version |
| 39% | YELLOWSTONE | 11 | First national park in the U.S. with parts in Wyoming that was featured in the movie "2012" |
| 38% | LEMUR | 5 | Primate with large eyes and a long tail that is endemic to the island of Madagascar |
| 36% | SAINTCROIX | 10 | Largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| 36% | STCROIX | 7 | Largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| 35% | SUMATRA | 7 | Island that's the largest producer of Indonesian coffee |
| 35% | SITKA | 5 | Alaska city that's larger in area than Rhode Island or Delaware |
| 35% | WALES | 5 | Prince of ___ Island, Alaska's island that is the fourth-largest island in the US |
| 35% | GLACIERBAY | 10 | National Park that surrounds the Alaskan city of Gustavus |
| 34% | DEVIL | 5 | Tasmanian ___, world's largest carnivorous marsupial that is native to the island of Tasmania |
| 34% | EAGLE | 5 | "Bald" raptor that's the national bird of the US |
| 34% | MAINE | 5 | State that's the largest U.S. producer of lobsters |
| 34% | ZION | 4 | National park that's home to the Narrows |
| 34% | TOLEDO | 6 | With 2-Down, the oldest sister city in the U.S. |
| 34% | BALDEAGLE | 9 | Bird that's a national symbol of the United States: 2 wds. |
| 34% | EAST | 4 | Part of the U.S. that's usually first with election returns |
| 34% | ANN | 3 | With 4-Down, city that's home to the University of Michigan |
| 33% | XENIA | 5 | Ohio city that's the largest in the U.S. that starts with its letter |
| 33% | ROGERWILLIAMS | 13 | Puritan religious-freedom advocate representing Rhode Island in the Capitol's National Statuary Hall: 2 wds. |
| 33% | DAYTIMEMEAWARDS | 15 | Prizes won by Acadia National Park for the first sight of sunrise in the U.S.? |
| 33% | JULIA | 5 | With 2-Down, chef who helped popularize chicken cordon bleu in the U.S. |
| 33% | REDWOOD | 7 | National park on the northern coast of 52-Across that's home to the tallest trees in the world |
| 33% | BALDEAGLE | 9 | Large raptor, the national bird of the US |
| 33% | BELGIUM | 7 | Country that knocked the US Men's National Team out of the 2014 World Cup |
| 33% | OHIO | 4 | Home of the U.S.'s largest cities whose names start with X and Z |