| 100% | ASDIC | 5 | Early form of sonar developed by the British between the two world wars (inits) |
| 96% | ASDIC | 5 | Early form of sonar developed by the British between the two World Wars |
| 35% | ESSEX | 5 | Connecticut town attacked by the British in the War of 1812 |
| 33% | NATHANHALE | 10 | Revolutionary War spy who was captured and killed by the British at the age of twenty-one |
| 32% | WINGATE | 7 | Orde —, British Army brigadier, creator of the Chindits in Burma in World War II |
| 31% | BLIGHTY | 7 | Term for England used by soldiers of the First and Second World Wars |
| 31% | EURASIAN | 8 | Like the Ural Mountains, which form part of the border between two continents |
| 31% | VOLTA | 5 | Name of the Ghanaian lake formed by the largest artificial reservoir in the world |
| 31% | INFECTION | 9 | Invaders were killed by this in War of the Worlds |
| 30% | WVA | 3 | One of two states formed during the U.S. Civil War |
| 30% | TUNIS | 5 | World capital whose name can be formed by removing letters from the end of its country's name |
| 30% | ENIAC | 5 | Electronic digital computer developed by John Mauchly and J P Eckert during the Second World War |
| 30% | FAREWELL | 8 | "A ___ to Arms," novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I |
| 30% | WVA | 3 | One of two states formed during the U.S Civil War: Abbr. |
| 30% | JEEP | 4 | Name by which the Willys MB four-wheel drive utility vehicle of World War II was known |
| 29% | LAFAYETTE | 9 | "the hero of the two worlds" |
| 29% | AMBON | 5 | Island of the Moluccas, Indonesia, on which occurred a 1942 World War II battle between Allied and Japanese forces |
| 29% | DOUBLES | 7 | Form of tennis played by two each side |
| 29% | DYNASTS | 7 | The —, epic drama of the Napoleonic War by Thomas Hardy published in three parts between 1904-08 |
| 29% | GERMANSUBMARINES | 16 | Underwater fleets of two world wars |
| 29% | IROCK | 5 | Boast formed by removing the middle two words of a popular Paul Simon song title |
| 29% | CHINDIT | 7 | Member of the special forces group created and commanded by Orde Wingate in the Burma Campaign of World War II |
| 29% | BICYCLE | 7 | The penny-farthing was an early form of it |
| 29% | NATO | 4 | Grp. formed after the Second World War |
| 29% | MUTUAL | 6 | It's between the two of us |
| 29% | VERDUN | 6 | Longest battle of the First World War |
| 29% | VEVO | 4 | Video music hosting group, formed by two of the "big three" record companies in the US |
| 28% | HIROHITO | 8 | Emperor of Japan during the Second World War |