| 100% | ARUBA | 5 | Dutch-speaking part of the West Indies |
| 64% | EUROPE | 6 | Part of the West |
| 62% | STLUCIA | 7 | So-called "Helen of the West Indies" |
| 62% | DOLLAR | 6 | Eastern Caribbean __, currency of the West Indies |
| 62% | BARBADOS | 8 | Easternmost of the West Indies |
| 61% | HAVANA | 6 | Chief port of the West Indies |
| 61% | TAINO | 5 | Arawakan language of the West Indies |
| 60% | ARUBA | 5 | Part of the Dutch Caribbean |
| 60% | BLACKBREAD | 10 | *Early 18th-century pirate of the West Indies |
| 58% | ABCTV | 5 | Part of the Disney family, so to speak |
| 58% | DOMINICA | 8 | Country of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea; capital Roseau |
| 57% | THROAT | 6 | Part of the neck that helps swallow and speak |
| 57% | BATAVIA | 7 | Former capital of the Dutch East Indies |
| 57% | BARBADOS | 8 | Unofficial capital of the British West Indies |
| 57% | STKITTSAND | 10 | & 22A Country of the West Indies of which Basseterre is the capital |
| 56% | COLDWAR | 7 | The West was part of it |
| 54% | PALAU | 5 | Island nation that was once part of the Spanish East Indies |
| 54% | ELBE | 4 | River that formed part of the border between East and West Germany |
| 51% | VANDIEMEN | 9 | Anthony —, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1636-45 |
| 51% | TIMOR | 5 | — Sea, that part of the Indian Ocean west of the Arafura Sea and north of Australia |
| 51% | AREA | 4 | Wernicke's ___ is part of the brain involved in the comprehension of written and spoken language |
| 50% | DOURO | 5 | River that forms part of the border between Spain and Portugal before flowing west to the Atlantic |
| 50% | BATAVIA | 7 | Capital of the former colony of Dutch East Indies; present-day Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 50% | SONS | 4 | Some relatives (not, strictly speaking, part of the puzzle's theme) |
| 49% | HANDSET | 7 | The part of a phone that you hold and speak into |
| 49% | ARAMAIC | 7 | Ancient language of the Middle East still spoken in Syria and parts of Lebanon |
| 48% | BATAVIA | 7 | Capital of the former colony of Dutch East Indies, now the city of Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 48% | IRIS | 4 | Part of the eye |
| 48% | SHANK | 5 | Part of the evening |
| 48% | TIO | 3 | Part of the familia |