| 100% | RAF | 3 | Gp. commanded by Churchill |
| 52% | VEE | 3 | Sign flashed by Churchill |
| 52% | HARROW | 6 | School attended by Churchill |
| 47% | PINTA | 5 | Ship commanded by Pinzón |
| 46% | IRONCURTAIN | 11 | Symbolic barrier named by Churchill |
| 46% | PINTA | 5 | Ship commanded by Martin Pinzón |
| 45% | BEZIQUE | 7 | French card game loved by Churchill |
| 45% | CIGARS | 6 | Pleasures shared by Churchill and Castro |
| 45% | PTBOAT | 6 | Vessel commanded by J.F.K. |
| 44% | APOLLO | 6 | Lunar mission commanded by Thomas P. Stafford |
| 44% | BOUNTY | 6 | 18th-century ship commanded by William Bligh |
| 43% | ORDER | 5 | Arrange by command |
| 43% | SORT | 4 | Arrange by command |
| 43% | ARMADA | 6 | Force commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia |
| 42% | NATO | 4 | Gp. joined by Montenegro in 2017 |
| 42% | AFLCIO | 6 | Gp. created by a 1955 merger |
| 40% | FEN | 3 | 1983 stage play by Caryl Churchill |
| 39% | NINA | 4 | The —, one of three ships commanded by Christopher Columbus in 1492 |
| 39% | UBOATS | 6 | They scared Churchill, by his own admission |
| 39% | DNC | 3 | Party gp. chaired by Tom Perez |
| 38% | PEQUOD | 6 | Ship in 1851 Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick commanded by Captain Ahab |
| 37% | UNDO | 4 | Word processing command symbolized by a backward arrow |
| 37% | USSWASP | 7 | W.W. II carrier praised by Churchill for its ability to "sting twice" |
| 36% | PLO | 3 | Mideast political gp. headed by Mahmoud Abbas |
| 35% | NOBEL | 5 | With 6-Across, award won by Einstein, Churchill and Sartre |
| 35% | PINTA | 5 | The —, one of three ships commanded by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to America |
| 34% | DISCOVERY | 9 | RRS —, ship commanded by R F Scott on the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-04 |
| 33% | BATTLE | 6 | "Star Wars Electronic ___ Command," Star Wars-themed early microcomputer game by Kenner |
| 33% | SNCC | 4 | '60s civil rights gp. inspired by student sit-ins |