| ELMSTREET | One of more than 5,000 in the United |
| ELM | Name of more than 5,000 U.S. streets |
| BONELESS | Fish may be enough to feed half the biblical 5,000 in worship? (8) |
| KOBE | Site of a 1995 earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people |
| SILKMOTH | Creature domesticated in China more than 5,000 years ago |
| RACERIOT | One of more than 150 that occurred in the US during the summer of 1967 |
| MILE | It has more than 5,000 feet |
| ANDES | Mountain range spanning more than 5,000 miles |
| FREIGHTCAR | One of more than 1.7 million operating in the United States, along with locomotives |
| INCH | One of more than 1.6 million in a marathon |
| LOCH | One of more than 30,000 in Scotland |
| LAKE | One of more than 14,000 in Minnesota |
| LEGO | One of more than 245,000 in a Christmas tree at a California theme park |
| TORREDENBEU | Sixteenth century tower near Cala Figuera, south-east Mallorca, one of more than 80 such structures built to help defend the island from marauding pirates (5,1'2,3) |
| ELEMENT | One of more than 115 on a table |
| ASIAN | One of more than four billion |
| CANTATA | One of more than 200 Bach works |
| ANKARAN | One of more than four million Turks |
| SIKH | One of more than 21 million Indians |
| ASSIST | One of more than 3,000 for Sue Bird |
