| 100% | HEERLEN | 7 | Industrial city in Limburg, Netherlands; a major coalmining centre from the late 19th century to the early 1970s |
| 87% | HEERLEN | 7 | Industrial city in Limburg, Netherlands; a major coal-mining centre from the late 19th century to the early 1970s |
| 64% | HEERLEN | 7 | Industrial city in Limburg, Netherlands; a major coal-mining centre until the early 1970s |
| 36% | BUSTLE | 6 | Framework worn at the back below the waist by women in the late 19th century in order to expand a skirt |
| 35% | DUN | 3 | ___ Laoghaire, originally constructed as a port to serve Dublin in the early 19th century |
| 33% | EGRET | 5 | Bird that became endangered in the 19th and early 20th century due to demands from hat makers |
| 33% | BUSTLE | 6 | Framework worn at the back below the waist by women in the late 19th-century in order to expand a skirt |
| 33% | DARK | 4 | & 13A Period in European history from around the late 5th century to about 1100 AD |
| 32% | DEVENTER | 8 | City in Overijssel, Netherlands, on the River Ijssel; an early centre of printing |
| 31% | TED | 3 | Williams who was the last major leaguer to bat over .400 in a season |
| 31% | DEVENTER | 8 | City in Overijssel, the Netherlands on the River Ijssel; an early centre of printing |
| 30% | NEDLUDD | 7 | Supposed Leicestershire weaver alleged to have destroyed industrial machinery in the late 18th century |
| 30% | PUT | 3 | Competitions to do this to the shot were first recorded in early 19th century Scotland |
| 30% | LUDD | 4 | Ned —, supposed Leicestershire weaver alleged to have destroyed industrial machinery in the late 18th century |
| 30% | BOSC | 4 | Pear named after a professor of the Paris Jardin des plantes in the early 19th century |
| 29% | VASCODAGAMA | 11 | Portuguese explorer who found a sea route from Europe to India in the late 1400s: 3 wds. |
| 29% | SAFETY | 6 | Type of bicycle from the late 19th century with two equal-sized wheels |
| 29% | STOOGES | 7 | A very popular slapstick comedy group in the early to late 60's : Consisted of Moe, Shemp, Larry, Curly and Joe |
| 29% | LUDDITE | 7 | Any of the textile workers in England opposed to mechanisation who organised machine-breaking in the early 19th century |
| 29% | ROTTERDAM | 9 | Second-largest city in the Netherlands, major port |
| 28% | GOLDENAGEOFTV | 13 | Name applied to both a period following the Second World War and a period in the early twenty-first century |
| 28% | THEMAINE | 8 | Ship in a late 19th century tragedy |
| 28% | ROME | 4 | First city to reach a population of one million people, in the second century B.C. |
| 28% | LIGHTBULB | 9 | Notable invention from the 19th century, that brought steady light to households, and stands as a symbol of an idea: 2 wds. |
| 28% | DDE | 3 | Last pres. born in the 19th century |
| 28% | THREECENTPIECES | 15 | Lightest coins ever minted by the U.S., used in the late 19th century |
| 28% | ICE | 3 | ___ hockey, Winter Olympic sport in which two teams use sticks to shoot a rubber puck and was first played in the 19th century |
| 27% | MEIR | 4 | Golda who was a prime minister in the early 1970s |