| 100% | GOVERNOR | 8 | __-general, a monarch's envoy in another country |
| 48% | CURRENCY | 8 | Money in general use in a country |
| 48% | LIVEDABROAD | 11 | Spent a year in another country, say |
| 46% | ABROAD | 6 | In another country |
| 46% | FOREIGN | 7 | In another country |
| 44% | IMMIGRANT | 9 | Person who settles and lives in another country |
| 44% | EMIGRATE | 8 | Settle in another country |
| 44% | IMMIGRATE | 9 | Settle in another country |
| 43% | TSO | 3 | General in a chicken dish's name |
| 43% | EMBASSY | 7 | National property in another country |
| 43% | SOVEREIGN | 9 | A monarch or supreme ruler of a country |
| 43% | PAL | 3 | Pen ___ (friend in another country, perhaps) |
| 43% | PAL | 3 | Pen ___ (friend in another country, say) |
| 43% | GREAT | 5 | Word in a monarch's name |
| 42% | ALLY | 4 | Country that's on your side in a war |
| 42% | TSO | 3 | General's name in a Chinese chicken dish |
| 42% | TSO | 3 | General's name in a Chinese-American dish |
| 41% | ABROAD | 6 | Overseas, in another country; anagram of bad oar |
| 41% | LIVINGONTHEEDGE | 15 | Taking risks, or, in another sense, a description of this puzzle's theme |
| 41% | ELI | 3 | Country singer Mike who's in a band with James Young |
| 41% | DEFECTION | 9 | Desertion of one's country in favor of another |
| 40% | DOBRO | 5 | Resonator guitar that's a staple in country music |
| 40% | BANJO | 5 | Stringed instrument that's a staple in country music |
| 40% | LANDOFOZ | 8 | Magical country introduced in a 1900 children's novel |
| 40% | IMMIGRANT | 9 | One who comes to live for good in another country |
| 40% | LEA | 3 | Locale in Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” |
| 40% | CORALINE | 8 | Found a passage to another world in Gaiman's book |
| 40% | FIDDLE | 6 | Violin's alias that's a staple in country music |
| 40% | BASS | 4 | Low-pitched guitar that's a staple in country music |