| 100% | SUEZ | 4 | Port in NE Egypt linked by rail with Cairo |
| 86% | SUEZ | 4 | Port in northeast Egypt linked by rail with Cairo |
| 37% | DOVER | 5 | Port in Kent with a ferry link to Calais |
| 35% | DIEPPE | 6 | Port in Seine-Maritime, France, with a ferry link to Newhaven, East Sussex |
| 35% | DIEPPE | 6 | Port in Seine-Maritime, France with a ferry link to Newhaven, East Sussex |
| 35% | FALMOUTH | 8 | Town and port in Cornwall linked by ferry to St Mawes |
| 34% | FELIXSTOWE | 10 | Port and resort in Suffolk with a ferry link to Rotterdam |
| 31% | MESSINA | 7 | Port in NE Sicily housing a university |
| 31% | CHICAGO | 7 | Port in NE Illinois, US, on Lake Michigan |
| 31% | CHICAGO | 7 | Port in NE Illinois, US on Lake Michigan |
| 31% | RIALTO | 6 | Island in Venice linked with San Marco Island by the — Bridge over the Grand Canal |
| 30% | WEDTO | 5 | Linked by custom with |
| 30% | SAID | 4 | Port in northeast Egypt |
| 30% | VENICE | 6 | Port in NE Italy built on over 100 islands |
| 30% | TRIESTE | 7 | Port in NE Italy under Austrian rule from 1382-1918 |
| 29% | KAVALA | 6 | Port in NE Greece; an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire |
| 29% | JACKSONVILLE | 12 | US port in NE Florida on St John's River |
| 27% | DARTMOUTH | 9 | Port in Devon overlooked by the Britannia Royal Naval College |
| 27% | TRIESTE | 7 | Port annexed by Italy in 1919 |
| 27% | ADEN | 4 | Port annexed by Britain in 1839 |
| 27% | JAFFA | 5 | Port captured by Napoleon in 1799 |
| 27% | FARNBOROUGH | 11 | Town in NE Hampshire associated with an international airshow |
| 27% | ORAN | 4 | Port captured by Allied forces in 1942 |
| 26% | AGADIR | 6 | Port in SW Morocco almost totally destroyed by an earthquake in 1960 |
| 26% | AGADIR | 6 | Port in southwest Morocco almost totally destroyed by an earthquake in 1960 |
| 26% | NAGASAKI | 8 | Port in Japan almost completely destroyed in 1945 by a nuclear bomb |
| 26% | MIDWINTER | 9 | In the Bleak __, carol with words by Rossetti |
| 26% | ANWAR | 5 | With 34-Across, president of Egypt assassinated in 1981 |
| 26% | KISSMEKATE | 10 | *1953 musical with songs by Cole Porter |
| 25% | MOCHA | 5 | Port in Yemen on the Red Sea associated with the export of Arabian coffee |