| 100% | BONDING | 7 | Establishing a link with |
| 100% | TIEINTO | 7 | Establish a link with |
| 72% | TIETO | 5 | Form a link with |
| 64% | DOCK | 4 | Link with a space station |
| 63% | DOCKS | 5 | Links with a space station |
| 61% | TIETO | 5 | Link with, using a rope: 2 wds. |
| 58% | DOCK | 4 | Link up with a space station |
| 57% | TIEIN | 5 | Have a link (with) |
| 57% | ANDMITRE | 8 | Wig __, pub name linked with a bishop's headgear |
| 57% | STARTUP | 7 | A newly established company with few employees |
| 55% | EBAY | 4 | Site with a "Daily Deals" link |
| 55% | NSFW | 4 | Warning letters with a Reddit link |
| 54% | ENOL | 4 | Compound with a doubly linked carbon atom |
| 54% | ARNIE | 5 | Palmer with a links "army" |
| 52% | DOVER | 5 | Port in Kent with a ferry link to Calais |
| 52% | NEA | 3 | Org. with a "Parents" link on its main page |
| 52% | PGA | 3 | Org. with a lot of links on its website |
| 52% | CHAINRING | 9 | Toothed circle that engages with a bike's links |
| 52% | TRACEDTO | 8 | Had a prior link with |
| 51% | DOGLEGS | 7 | Some links holes ... with a hint to the circled letters |
| 51% | IHOPS | 5 | Units of a chain with links? |
| 50% | LARNE | 5 | Seaport in Northern Ireland with a ferry link to Fleetwood, Lancashire |
| 50% | OSHA | 4 | Org. with a "No Fear Act Data" link on its website |
| 50% | FELIXSTOWE | 10 | Port and resort in Suffolk with a ferry link to Rotterdam |
| 50% | PANAMA | 6 | Country with a famous canal that links Central and South America |
| 49% | ROSCOFF | 7 | Commune in Brittany, France, with a cross channel ferry link to Plymouth |
| 49% | YEMEN | 5 | Mideast country with a 2011 revolution linked to the Arab Spring protests |
| 48% | DIEPPE | 6 | Port in Seine-Maritime, France, with a ferry link to Newhaven, East Sussex |
| 48% | DIEPPE | 6 | Port in Seine-Maritime, France with a ferry link to Newhaven, East Sussex |
| 48% | TIETO | 5 | Link with |