| 100% | CLIENTSTATE | 11 | Cuba, once, to the Soviet Union |
| 66% | EVILEMPIRE | 10 | The Soviet Union, to Reagan |
| 63% | HARRIMAN | 8 | U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during W.W. II |
| 61% | EVIL | 4 | The Soviet Union's type of empire, according to President Reagan |
| 61% | KIM | 3 | & 17D India-born English double agent who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963 |
| 55% | KGB | 3 | Soviet counterpart to the CIA, once: Abbr. |
| 54% | FUCHS | 5 | Klaus —, physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US |
| 54% | KLAUS | 5 | & 1A Physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US |
| 53% | USSR | 4 | The Soviet Union |
| 53% | LENIN | 5 | First premier of the Soviet Union |
| 53% | LENIN | 5 | First head of the Soviet Union |
| 50% | LENIN | 5 | Founder of the Soviet Union |
| 50% | LEONID | 6 | Brezhnev of the Soviet Union |
| 49% | EVILEMPIRE | 10 | Soviet Union, to Reagan |
| 48% | KGB | 3 | Spy agency of the Soviet Union: Abbr. |
| 48% | NINOTCHKA | 9 | 1939 film banned in the Soviet Union |
| 48% | LENIN | 5 | Leader of the Soviet Union before Stalin |
| 48% | EVIL | 4 | ___ empire (what Reagan called the Soviet Union) |
| 48% | MIR | 3 | Space station launched by the Soviet Union |
| 48% | GORBACHEV | 9 | Eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union |
| 48% | RAISA | 5 | ___ Gorbachev, former first lady of the Soviet Union |
| 48% | TASS | 4 | Former principal news agency of the Soviet Union |
| 47% | NINOTCHKA | 9 | 1939 Best Picture nominee banned in the Soviet Union |
| 47% | RYKOV | 5 | Alexei —, premier of the Soviet Union from 1924-30 |
| 47% | GORKYPARK | 9 | Martin Cruz Smith thriller set in the Soviet Union |
| 47% | STALIN | 6 | Ruler of the Soviet Union from 1924 until 1953 |
| 47% | TROTSKY | 7 | He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1929 |
| 46% | ANTILABOR | 9 | Opposed to the union, say |
| 46% | CSA | 3 | Loser to the Union: Abbr. |
| 46% | MANIA | 5 | Reaction to the Beatles, once |