| 100% | LSU | 3 | Sch. that's home to the Golden Band from Tigerland |
| 97% | ANDES | 5 | Mountain range that's home to the world's highest volcanoes |
| 96% | BHUTAN | 6 | Himalayan country that's home to the world's highest unclimbed mountain |
| 91% | PLUMMET | 7 | To suddenly drop from the sky at a great speed |
| 91% | OHIO | 4 | State that's the answer to the riddle "What's round at both ends and high in the middle?" |
| 89% | FROZONE | 7 | Superhero from "The Incredibles" who has the ability to freeze things with his fingertips |
| 89% | ENOS | 4 | Slaughter who dashed home to win the 1946 World Series |
| 88% | WARRIORS | 8 | Basketball team that moved from Philadelphia to the Golden State's Bay Area in 1962 |
| 87% | APRIL | 5 | ___ Ludgate, character from "Parks & Recreation," who encouraged her husband to make the World's Best Grilled Cheese |
| 84% | BEHINDBLUEEYES | 14 | 1971 hit from the Who that begins "No one knows what it's like to be the bad man" |
| 84% | PATRICK | 7 | ___ Brewer from "Schitt's Creek" who takes a reluctant David Rose on a hike and proposes to him at the top of the trail |
| 84% | LANTERN | 7 | The Green ___, a DC Comics superhero who gains his power from a ring |
| 83% | AKERS | 5 | Michelle who won the Golden Shoe at the 1991 World Cup |
| 83% | MEMPHIS | 7 | Tennessee city that's home to the Blues Hall of Fame |
| 83% | BRIANASCURRY | 12 | U.S. soccer great who won the Golden Glove Award (best goalkeeper) at the 1999 FIFA World Cup (2 wds.) |
| 83% | ROME | 4 | World capital that's home to the Spanish Steps |
| 83% | SANAA | 5 | Middle Eastern city that's one of the ten highest capitals in the world |
| 83% | GARDEN | 6 | ___ of the Hesperides, location from Greek legends that is home to the golden apples |
| 82% | EARTH | 5 | "Wait, that doesn't look like ___. Where's the blue sky?" Dialogue from "Wall-E" that hints at a dystopian future where our planet is abandoned |
| 81% | ARCHIE | 6 | Boxer Moore who was the World Light Heavyweight Champion from 1952 to 1962 |
| 81% | CEDILLA | 7 | Character such as that placed under the c in French name Francois that softens the sound from that of k to s |
| 81% | TULSA | 5 | Oklahoma city that's home to the Golden Hurricane |
| 81% | BUBBLES | 7 | Sweet, blue '90s superhero from the animated series "The Powerpuff Girls" who fashions 2 pigtails with beaded bands |
| 81% | COAT | 4 | I'm the white cape that chemists wear to protect from messy reactions. Who am I? |
| 80% | MICHELLEAKERS | 13 | American former soccer player who won the Golden Shoe (now renamed) for scoring 10 goals at the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup: 2 wds. |
| 80% | GEORGECLOONEY | 13 | Actor who topped Forbes Magazine's 2018 ranking of highest-paid actors, at $239 million, thanks to the sale of his tequila company: 2 wds. |
| 80% | CENA | 4 | John who announced that he would retire from wrestling at the end of 2025 |
| 80% | OMAHA | 5 | City that's home to the N.C.A.A.'s College World Series |
| 80% | GROUP | 5 | Blue Man ___ (act that's performing at the Luxor in Las Vegas) |
| 80% | KOMODO | 6 | Island that's home to the world's largest lizard |