| 100% | SYNGE | 5 | "The Playboy of the Western World" playwright |
| 100% | SYNGE | 5 | Playboy of the Western World playwright |
| 97% | SYNGE | 5 | J. M. ___, "The Playboy of the Western World" playwright |
| 91% | SYNGE | 5 | "Playboy of the Western World" playwright |
| 84% | SYNGE | 5 | "The Playboy of the Western World" author |
| 84% | SYNGE | 5 | "The Playboy of the Western World" dramatist |
| 81% | SYNGE | 5 | J M —, author of 1907 stage play The Playboy of the Western World |
| 63% | PLAYBOY | 7 | __ of the Western World, Synge's provocative play |
| 63% | PLAYBOY | 7 | The __ of the Western World, play by J M Synge |
| 55% | PLATO | 5 | Founder of an early institution of higher learning in the Western world (c.385BC) |
| 53% | SOMME | 5 | Battle of the ___ (deadly Western Front offensive of the First World War) |
| 52% | OMEGA | 5 | The end of the Greek world? |
| 52% | ALEPH | 5 | The beginning of the Hebrew world? |
| 52% | QUITO | 5 | Western Hemisphere capital chosen as one of the twelve inaugural World Heritage sites in 1978 |
| 52% | YPRES | 5 | Town in western Belgium; scene of many battles in the First World War |
| 51% | RICE | 4 | The Owls of the Western Athletic Conference |
| 51% | UTEP | 4 | The Miners of the Western Athletic Conf. |
| 51% | PERTH | 5 | Capital city of Western Australia and host of the 1998 FINA World Aquatics Championships |
| 51% | JABULANI | 8 | The name of the 2010 World Cup ball |
| 50% | CORPORATE | 9 | Of the business world |
| 50% | CHEETODUST | 10 | The "glitter of the snack world," per Ellen DeGeneres |
| 50% | INCE | 4 | Thomas H. ___, the Father of the Western |
| 50% | NATURE | 6 | All the elements of the physical world |
| 50% | FOCH | 4 | Ferdinand —, French commander in chief of Allied armies on the Western front in World War I |
| 50% | LAFAYETTE | 9 | "the hero of the two worlds" |
| 50% | DOOMSDAY | 8 | The end of the world |
| 50% | ORBIT | 5 | The way of the world |
| 49% | ORBIT | 5 | The way of the world? |
| 49% | BOSTON | 6 | Massachusetts city, the Athens of the New World |
| 49% | SMOLENSK | 8 | City in western Russia on the Dnieper River; scene of severe fighting in the Second World War |