| 100% | JAFFA | 5 | Port captured by Napoleon in 1799 |
| 60% | CONSUL | 6 | First __, title taken by Napoleon in 1799 |
| 59% | ORAN | 4 | Port captured by Allied forces in 1942 |
| 41% | TRIESTE | 7 | Port annexed by Italy in 1919 |
| 41% | ADEN | 4 | Port annexed by Britain in 1839 |
| 41% | SAVANNAH | 8 | Port captured in Sherman's March to the Sea |
| 41% | MALTA | 5 | Napoleon captured it in 1798 |
| 40% | JERUSALEM | 9 | It was captured by British forces in 1917 |
| 40% | ERIE | 4 | Fort ___, captured by U.S. forces in 1814 |
| 40% | GUAM | 4 | Island captured by Japan in 1941 |
| 39% | ORAN | 4 | North African city captured by the Allies in 1942 |
| 39% | TIRANA | 6 | Capital city captured by Mussolini's forces in 1939 |
| 39% | HMSDRAKE | 8 | British sloop captured by John Paul Jones in 1778 |
| 38% | NEMO | 4 | Fish captured by a scuba diver in a 2003 animated movie |
| 38% | SUEZ | 4 | Port in northeast Egypt linked by rail with Cairo |
| 38% | SUEZ | 4 | Port in NE Egypt linked by rail with Cairo |
| 37% | AQABA | 5 | Jordanian port city captured in Lawrence of Arabia |
| 37% | DARTMOUTH | 9 | Port in Devon overlooked by the Britannia Royal Naval College |
| 36% | AGADIR | 6 | Port in SW Morocco almost totally destroyed by an earthquake in 1960 |
| 36% | AGADIR | 6 | Port in southwest Morocco almost totally destroyed by an earthquake in 1960 |
| 36% | NAGASAKI | 8 | Port in Japan almost completely destroyed in 1945 by a nuclear bomb |
| 35% | FALMOUTH | 8 | Town and port in Cornwall linked by ferry to St Mawes |
| 35% | ANCONA | 6 | Adriatic port in Marche, Italy, founded by Greek settlers from Syracuse |
| 34% | CADIZ | 5 | Strategic port raided by Sir Francis Drake in 1587 |
| 34% | PRINCESSLEIA | 12 | Rebel Alliance fighter captured by 42-Across in 1983's "Return of the Jedi": 2 wds. |
| 33% | DNA | 3 | Its structure was evidenced by Photo 51, an X-ray captured in 1952 |
| 32% | TRAP | 4 | Capture by surprise |
| 32% | ENSNARE | 7 | Capture by trapping |
| 32% | SNARE | 5 | Capture by trickery |
| 32% | ONTAPE | 6 | Captured by cameras, maybe |