| 100% | EMMEN | 5 | New town in Drenthe, northeast Netherlands, developed since the Second World War |
| 82% | EMMEN | 5 | New town in Drenthe, northeast Netherlands, developed since World War II |
| 73% | EMMEN | 5 | New town in Drenthe, NE Netherlands developed since World War II |
| 73% | EMMEN | 5 | New town in Drenthe, NE Netherlands, developed since World War II |
| 69% | EMMEN | 5 | New town in the NE Netherlands developed since World War II |
| 38% | CROSSOFHONOUR | 13 | A 2013 film about the Second World War in which Rupert Grint played a pilot: 3 wds. |
| 37% | LOSALAMOS | 9 | Town in New Mexico, US, where the first atomic bomb was developed |
| 37% | HAITIAN | 7 | Citizen of the second-oldest independent country in the New World |
| 37% | GOLDENAGEOFTV | 13 | Name applied to both a period following the Second World War and a period in the early twenty-first century |
| 35% | OCALA | 5 | Fort town in the Second Seminole War |
| 35% | ORINOCO | 7 | River with the second-largest discharge volume in the New World, after the Amazon |
| 35% | FDR | 3 | President during the Second World War: Abbr. |
| 35% | ROSIE | 5 | Propaganda figure during the Second World War |
| 35% | NATO | 4 | Grp. formed after the Second World War |
| 34% | ASSEN | 5 | City in northeast Netherlands; capital of the province of Drenthe |
| 34% | DDT | 3 | Chemical used to control malaria in the Second World War |
| 34% | CHURCHILL | 9 | UK Prime Minister during the Second World War |
| 34% | HIROHITO | 8 | Emperor of Japan during the Second World War |
| 34% | WHITEROSE | 9 | Anti-Nazi movement during the Second World War |
| 34% | EBOAT | 5 | German naval vessel of the Second World War |
| 34% | ANZAC | 5 | In World War I, a soldier serving with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps |
| 34% | PTBOAT | 6 | U.S. naval craft used in the Second World War |
| 34% | ELALAMEIN | 9 | Second World War battleground in 43-Across |
| 33% | THEEAGLEHAS | 11 | & 17D 1975 novel by Jack Higgins set during the Second World War |
| 33% | LASCALA | 7 | Milan opera house severely damaged during the Second World War |
| 33% | CUMBERNAULD | 11 | New town in North Lanarkshire northeast of Glasgow |
| 32% | ENOLAGAY | 8 | Second World War bomber named after the pilot’s mother |
| 32% | CORBY | 5 | New town in Northamptonshire formerly associated with the steel industry |
| 32% | ELALAMEIN | 9 | Major Second World War battle fought in Egypt |
| 32% | AIRMAN | 6 | Part of a Tuskegee-trained force in the Second World War |