| 100% | THREADS | 7 | Name given to strands of saffron |
| 59% | KINDLE | 6 | Name given to a group of kittens |
| 59% | SLEUTH | 6 | Name given to a group of bears |
| 59% | HOROLOGY | 8 | Name given to the study of time |
| 58% | PHARAOH | 7 | Name given to the leader of ancient Egypt |
| 58% | RAMESSES | 8 | Name given to 11 pharaohs of Ancient Egypt |
| 58% | ANATOLIA | 8 | Name given to the Asian part of Turkey |
| 57% | ROARING | 7 | Name given to the prosperous years of the 1920s |
| 56% | PITUITARY | 9 | Name given to the "master gland" of the human body |
| 56% | SCUTES | 6 | Name given to the scales of a tortoise's shell |
| 56% | OCA | 3 | Name given to the dwelling used by indigenous people of Brazil |
| 54% | WAIFLOOK | 8 | Name given to the appearance of '60s thin, large-eyed models like Twiggy |
| 54% | MARXISM | 7 | Name given to the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 52% | SPORADES | 8 | Name given to two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea; the Northern — and Southern — |
| 52% | DISSONANCE | 10 | Name given to W A Mozart's String Quartet No 19 in C major of 1785 |
| 51% | HIDDENFIGURES | 13 | Name given to the team of NASA mathematicians who performed calculations for early space launches (2 wds.) |
| 51% | GEORGOHM | 8 | Gave his name to a unit of electrical resistance |
| 50% | LILY | 4 | Corpse ___, name given to the Rafflesia, which is one of the largest flowers in the world |
| 50% | DAUPHIN | 7 | Name given to the eldest son of the king of France during the majority of the period 1350-1830 |
| 49% | ROARING | 7 | & 6D Name given to the stormy areas of ocean between latitudes 40º and 50º in the Southern Hemisphere |
| 49% | AXIS | 4 | The —, name given to the alliance of Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan formalised by the 1940 Tripartite Pact |
| 48% | COBALT | 6 | Metal that gave its name to a shade of blue |
| 48% | TRAFALGAR | 9 | Battle of Spain gives its name to a London square |
| 48% | SPAGHETTI | 9 | Pasta that gives its name to a genre of westerns |
| 48% | LIME | 4 | Fruit that gave its name to a shade of green |
| 48% | EDOM | 4 | Name given to Esau |
| 47% | NEHRU | 5 | Prime minister who gave his name to an article of clothing |
| 47% | GENOA | 5 | Italian seaport that gave its name to a type of salami |
| 47% | OCTOBER | 7 | Month giving its name to a three-week war of 1973 |
| 47% | ALLFOOLSDAY | 11 | Name given to April 1st |