| 100% | BRISTOL | 7 | British port from which John Cabot sailed to the New World in 1497 |
| 37% | MDI | 3 | Year Vespucci sailed to the New World |
| 34% | LACORUNA | 8 | Port from which the Spanish Armada departed in 1588 |
| 31% | DEVON | 5 | English county from which the Pilgrims set sail in 1620 |
| 30% | PINTA | 5 | Ship to the New World |
| 30% | SANTAMARIA | 10 | Ship to the New World |
| 30% | SEAROUTE | 8 | Way to the New World |
| 30% | NINA | 4 | Ship to the New World |
| 29% | VIKINGS | 7 | Early visitors to the New World |
| 29% | ENGADGET | 8 | One of the highest-paid blogs in the world which is the go-to source for tech news and reviews |
| 29% | LILY | 4 | Corpse ___, name given to the Rafflesia, which is one of the largest flowers in the world |
| 29% | AWHOLE | 6 | "___ New World," song from "Aladdin" that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1993: 2 wds. |
| 28% | MAYFLOWER | 9 | Early ship that brought pilgrims to the New World |
| 28% | NINA | 4 | Ship that made three voyages to the New World |
| 28% | PALOS | 5 | Port from which Columbus departed in 1492 |
| 28% | FRENCH | 6 | John —, field marshal who commanded the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium from 1914-15 |
| 28% | VIDEO | 5 | Blockbuster ___, rental chain from which you could rent your favorite 19a to watch at home in the early 2000s |
| 28% | COLD | 4 | "The Spy Who Came In From the ___" (third John le Carré novel to feature George Smiley) |
| 27% | MDIV | 4 | Year Columbus returned from his final voyage to the New World |
| 27% | CADIZ | 5 | Spanish port from which Columbus sailed, 1493 |
| 27% | THEATER | 7 | "The only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years," per John Steinbeck |
| 27% | CAPSULE | 7 | *Time ___, container in which you store precious things from the present to be found in the future |
| 27% | CNN | 3 | Channel started in 1980 that was the first in the world to provide 24-hour news coverage |
| 27% | CLOUD | 5 | Type of storage that allows us to access our files and data from anywhere in the world |
| 27% | POOR | 4 | According to The World Bank, in 2015, 734 million people were this, a change from 1990's figure of 1.9 billion |
| 27% | STIRRUP | 7 | Item which some scholars argue was directly responsible for the shift from infantry to cavalry in medieval armies |
| 26% | JAMESCOOK | 9 | Explorer who sailed from England, mapping the Pacific islands, New Zealand, and Australia from 1768 to 1779: 2 wds. |
| 26% | CORTESE | 7 | Wines made from this grape variety are long known to be favored by restaurants in the port of Genoa |
| 26% | IPO | 3 | Big news to share in the biz world? |
| 26% | EAGLE | 5 | The 2016 sports film "Eddie the ___," which is about the first British skier to take part in Olympic ski jumping in 1988 |