| 100% | JEEPS | 5 | Dickie —, 1960-62 England Test captain; president of the Rugby Football Union in 1976-77 |
| 35% | WATKINS | 7 | David —, rugby union fly-half, 1963 Wales Test debutant against England in the Five Nations |
| 31% | TOMKIERNAN | 10 | Rugby union full-back; 1960 Ireland Test debutant against England |
| 31% | URN | 3 | Container of the Ashes in the cricket Test series between England and Australia |
| 31% | JFK | 3 | Initials of the US president who was elected at age 43 in 1960 |
| 31% | MIAS | 4 | Lucien —, captain of the France rugby union team that won the Five Nations outright for the first time in 1959 |
| 31% | TWICKENHAM | 10 | Town in the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames; base of the Rugby Football Union |
| 29% | CORRY | 5 | Martin —, former England rugby union captain whose 1997 Test debut was against Argentina |
| 29% | FRANKLINRECIPE | 14 | President of the Bakers' Union? |
| 29% | BEAUMONT | 8 | Bill —, captain of England's 1980 Five Nations Championship-winning rugby union team |
| 29% | DEWIBEBB | 8 | Rugby union wing who scored the winning try on his 1959 Wales Test debut against England |
| 29% | GREWCOCK | 8 | Danny —, rugby union lock who played in 69 Tests for England from 1997-2007 |
| 29% | OREILLY | 7 | Tony —, rugby union wing; 1955 Ireland Test debutant against France in the Five Nations |
| 29% | LINEOUT | 7 | Method of restarting play in rugby union after the ball has gone into touch |
| 28% | MCKINLEY | 8 | Was president of the US in 1900 |
| 28% | IDI | 3 | President of Uganda in the 70s |
| 28% | DEGAULLE | 8 | Charles —, first president of the Fifth Republic in France |
| 27% | STATE | 5 | ___ of the Union (US president's speech) |
| 27% | ZED | 3 | End of the alphabet, in England |
| 27% | NET | 3 | Part of the goal in football |
| 27% | FOUL | 4 | Violation of the rules in football |
| 27% | OTI | 3 | Chris —, Wasps rugby union wing who scored a hat-trick for England against Ireland in the 1988 Five Nations Championship |
| 27% | PALIN | 5 | Sarah —, Republican candidate for vice president of the US in 2008 |
| 27% | ZED | 3 | Last letter of the alphabet, in England |
| 26% | SCANLON | 7 | Hugh —, president of the AEU from 1968-78 who died in 2004 |
| 26% | SCROD | 5 | Catch of the day, say, in New England |
| 26% | ANNARBOR | 8 | Home of the Big House in college football |
| 26% | ZUMA | 4 | Jacob —, South African politician who was appointed president of the ANC in 2007 |
| 26% | RBS | 3 | Members of the offensive backfield in football, for short |