| 100% | NITRIC | 6 | Kind of acid used as one of the components of the BOMARC long-range missile used in the US Cold War defense system |
| 29% | SCUD | 4 | Name of a missile used in the gulf war, which means to move quickly like clouds |
| 29% | SCUD | 4 | Missile used in the first Gulf War |
| 28% | OXALIC | 6 | Kind of acid used in bleaches |
| 28% | BORIC | 5 | Kind of acid used in fireproofing |
| 28% | CALL | 4 | "___ of Duty: Black Ops," one of the best-selling video games released in 2010 that is set during the Cold War |
| 28% | OLEIC | 5 | Kind of acid used in making soap |
| 28% | AMINO | 5 | Kind of acid used in food flavoring |
| 27% | ETC | 3 | E-ZPass as used on the MA Turnpike and VA's Midtown Tunnel/US Route 58 is one of these fee transfer systems |
| 27% | SEX | 3 | "No ___ Please, We're British," farcical musical that is one of the longest-running musicals in the West End |
| 27% | SCUD | 4 | Missile first used in the Yom Kippur War |
| 27% | CSI | 3 | One of the 11 4-year senior schools in the City University of New York system that has Danny the Dolphin as its mascot |
| 27% | EXOCET | 6 | Antiship missile used in the Falklands War |
| 27% | PTBOAT | 6 | U.S. naval craft used in the Second World War |
| 27% | PERU | 4 | One of the losers in the War of the Pacific |
| 27% | WOOMERA | 7 | Town in South Australia built in 1947 as the administrative centre of the Long Range Weapons Establishment |
| 26% | NUGAL | 5 | European secluded beach in Croatia recognized as one of the best in the continent |
| 26% | TOLLS | 5 | "For Whom the Bell ___," novel by Ernest Hemingway, set in the Spanish Civil War and is regarded as one of his best works |
| 26% | VANE | 4 | In Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada a Douglas DC-3 at the international airport is now used as one of these weather indicators |
| 26% | SCUD | 4 | Soviet surface-to-surface missile used in the Gulf War |
| 26% | MARS | 4 | One of the worlds in "The War of the Worlds" |
| 26% | GOTHIC | 6 | Kind of type used in the Gutenberg Bible |
| 26% | DOT | 3 | One of the three components in an ellipsis |
| 26% | CAR | 3 | One of 52 million in the U. S. |
| 26% | KATAKANA | 8 | One of the Japanese collections of syllabic symbols most often used in transcribing foreign words into Japanese |
| 26% | KEPLER | 6 | Johannes —, German scientist born in 1571 regarded as one of the fathers of modern astronomy |
| 26% | ARI | 3 | The name of the one who’s gonna last, in “Thank U, Next” |
| 26% | SCREECHED | 9 | One of the longest one-syllable words in English |
| 26% | SHIP | 4 | One of the S's in U.S.S. |
| 26% | TOPHAT | 6 | One of the original Monopoly tokens still in use |