| 100% | CIA | 3 | Org. where William J. Burns replaced Gina Haspel as director, in 2021 |
| 33% | CIA | 3 | William J. Burns is its director |
| 26% | CIA | 3 | Government org. headed by William J. Burns |
| 26% | FEB | 3 | Month in 2021 when Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was chosen as the first woman Director-General of WTO (for short) |
| 25% | CIA | 3 | Gina Haspel's org. |
| 25% | TROUGHTON | 9 | Patrick —, actor who replaced William Hartnell in 1966 as The Doctor in BBC TV series Doctor Who |
| 24% | ZHAO | 4 | Chloe who won Best Picture and Best Director in 2021 |
| 23% | NASA | 4 | Org. where Mary Jackson worked as an engineer |
| 22% | FBI | 3 | Org. headquartered in the J. Edgar Hoover Building |
| 22% | TENTH | 5 | Where the letter J comes in the alphabet |
| 21% | CREMATE | 7 | Burn, as in the Hindu funeral rites of antyeshti |
| 21% | GERMANY | 7 | Deutschland; where euros replaced marks as cash |
| 21% | TENTH | 5 | Numerically, where J is in the alphabet |
| 21% | BLOWON | 6 | Soothe, in a way, as a burn |
| 21% | KGB | 3 | Org. in Beatriz Williams's novel "Our Woman in Moscow" |
| 21% | PTA | 3 | Org. founded in 1897 as the National Congress of Mothers |
| 21% | NASA | 4 | Org. whose Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February, 2021 |
| 21% | ROBIN | 5 | ___ Williams, guest actor who appeared in "Friends" as Tomas |
| 21% | LEAGUES | 7 | Toronto is in seven sports __ as of 2021 |
| 21% | CIA | 3 | Org. headed by Gina Haspel |
| 21% | BRIXHAM | 7 | South Devon fishing port and resort where William of Orange landed in 1688 |
| 21% | NSA | 3 | Org. probably monitoring your keystrokes as you fill in this answer |
| 21% | NEA | 3 | Org. that funds grants in disciplines such as music and theatre |
| 21% | OSLO | 4 | 2021 HBO film starring Ruth Wilson as a diplomat in Norway |
| 20% | CIA | 3 | Intelligence org. in the Susan Williams book "White Malice" |
| 20% | GREATWALL | 9 | Longest built structure in the world as of 2021 |
| 20% | ABA | 3 | Old org. where the Indiana Pacers appeared in the finals five times |
| 20% | FBI | 3 | Org. in "J. Edgar" |
| 20% | WWE | 3 | Org. that replaced the “F” in its name because of a legal dispute |
| 20% | BRASILIA | 8 | It replaced Rio de Janeiro as a national capital in 1960 |