| 100% | MAORIS | 6 | Hunters of the now-extinct moa |
| 54% | ORION | 5 | Hunter of the skies |
| 53% | ORION | 5 | Hunter of the night sky |
| 50% | OTOE | 4 | Old buffalo hunters of the Great Plains |
| 48% | NIPA | 4 | ___ grass, colloquial name of Distichlis palmeri, once thought extinct but which now grows in the Sonoran desert of Mexico |
| 47% | MEGALODON | 9 | Enormous, now extinct species of shark |
| 47% | PERU | 4 | Site of the extinct volcano Huascarán |
| 47% | NPR | 3 | Broadcaster of the newsmagazine "Here & Now" |
| 47% | BINDIIRWIN | 10 | Celebrity daughter of the Crocodile Hunter |
| 47% | OCT | 3 | Mo. of the hunter's moon |
| 46% | HOTEL | 5 | Much of the RMS Queen Mary, now |
| 46% | COPPOLA | 7 | Director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now |
| 46% | SUMER | 5 | Location of the earliest civilization, now Iraq |
| 46% | NPR | 3 | Broadcaster of the newsmagazine "Here and Now" |
| 46% | HARE | 4 | Constellation south of the Hunter, with "the" |
| 46% | STAN | 4 | One of the hunters in "The Deer Hunter" |
| 45% | BURMA | 5 | Former name of the country now called Myanmar |
| 45% | CONSTANTINE | 11 | Eponym of the city now known as Istanbul |
| 45% | MEN | 3 | 50.4% of the global population, right now |
| 45% | AGEE | 4 | "The Night of the Hunter" screenwriter |
| 45% | STAN | 4 | One of the deer hunters in "The Deer Hunter" |
| 45% | BARBARY | 7 | North African lion species now extinct in the wild |
| 45% | OSOLEMIO | 8 | Basis of the song "It's Now or Never" |
| 45% | TWENTYONE | 9 | Number of the century we're living in now |
| 45% | ONEMEG | 6 | Large size of the '80s that now sounds tiny |
| 45% | BURMA | 5 | Previous name of the country now known as Myanmar |
| 44% | BIRDSEGG | 8 | Now illegally collected, the progeny of avians |
| 44% | MITCHUM | 7 | "The Night of the Hunter" star, 1955 |
| 44% | AGEE | 4 | "The Night of the Hunter" screenwriter James |
| 44% | MOA | 3 | Extinct cousin of the kiwi |