| 100% | OGPU | 4 | Organisation also called the Joint State Political Directorate that formed the Soviet secret police from 1923-34 (inits) |
| 97% | OGPU | 4 | Organisation also called the Joint State Political Directorate that formed the Soviet secret police from 1923-34 |
| 90% | OGPU | 4 | Organisation also called the Joint State Political Directorate which formed the Soviet secret police from 1923-34 |
| 29% | NKVD | 4 | Secret police organisation in the USSR from 1934-46 (inits) |
| 26% | NKVD | 4 | Secret police organisation in the USSR from 1934-46 |
| 25% | OGPU | 4 | Secret police org. formed in 1923 under the leadership of Felix Dzerzhinsky (abbr.) |
| 24% | IDAHO | 5 | US state also called the Gem State |
| 24% | IDAHO | 5 | Northwestern US state also called the Gem State |
| 22% | LOIN | 4 | That part of the lower back also called the lumbus |
| 22% | INDEX | 5 | Finger that's also called the "digitus secundus" |
| 22% | SECESSION | 9 | The action of withdrawing from a political state |
| 21% | PRUSSIA | 7 | Former state that led the North German Confederation from 1867-71 |
| 21% | SAVOY | 5 | Noble family that formed the royal house of Italy from 1861-1946 |
| 21% | UTAH | 4 | State that the Osmonds are from |
| 21% | JUMNA | 5 | River in N India also called the Yamuna that joins the Ganges at Allahabad |
| 20% | TATER | 5 | Slangy word for the vegetable that's also called a "spud" |
| 20% | BIAFRA | 6 | Region of E Nigeria that formed a secessionist state from 1967-70 |
| 20% | BILL | 4 | The —, ITV police drama series that ran from 1984-2010 |
| 20% | RUMP | 4 | — Parliament, name given to the UK legislature also called the Purged Parliament which sat from 1648-53 |
| 20% | WATERGATE | 9 | Political scandal that arose from what a 1972 Washington Post article called a “bugging affair” |
| 20% | FELIX | 5 | ___ Felicis, a potion that's also called "Liquid Luck" which grants luck to the drinker |
| 20% | FEMINISTS | 9 | People who support a political movement that calls for the equality of women |
| 20% | IXELLES | 7 | Municipality in the Brussels-Capital region of Belgium that is also called Elsene |
| 20% | VIBRATE | 7 | Cell phone setting that keeps the device from making noise when someone calls |
| 19% | TIDAL | 5 | Form of hydropower that is generated from the movement of waves |
| 19% | SNAILMAIL | 9 | System that was called 34-Across before the Internet |
| 19% | CASE | 4 | Situation that calls for investigation by the police etc |
| 19% | PARA | 4 | Brazilian state that the Munduruku indigenous people call home |
| 19% | FAUN | 4 | Also called "satyr," woodland spirit from Greek and Roman myth that was half-human, half-goat |
| 19% | OKLAHOMA | 8 | US state that's also the name of a musical |