| 100% | OGPU | 4 | Secret police org. formed in 1923 under the leadership of Felix Dzerzhinsky (abbr.) |
| 42% | OCA | 3 | Religious org. under the leadership of Metropolitan Tikhon Mollard, that has over 450 parishes in the US (abbr.) |
| 40% | APOC | 4 | Co. formed in April 1909 under the leadership of Lord Strathcona that became BP in 1954 (abbr.) |
| 35% | HEW | 3 | Dept. created on April 11, 1953 (until 1979) under the leadership of Oveta Culp Hobby who commanded the Women's Army Corps in WWII (abbr.) |
| 32% | DBA | 3 | Under the name of, in corporate names (Abbr.) |
| 30% | NEPAL | 5 | Country currently under the leadership of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli |
| 30% | AER | 3 | Nonprofit financial assistance org. HQed in Arlington that helps US Army soldiers and dependents in the form of grants or loans (abbr.) |
| 29% | OKHRANA | 7 | Secret police in period of Russian tsars |
| 29% | NHL | 3 | Org. to which the Governor General of Canada donated a trophy in the form of a silver rose bowl in 1892 |
| 28% | NKVD | 4 | Secret police organisation in the USSR from 1934-46 |
| 28% | NKVD | 4 | Secret police organisation in the USSR from 1934-46 (inits) |
| 28% | STOW | 4 | Put under the seat in front of you, say |
| 28% | NASA | 4 | Org. in charge of the 23-Down |
| 28% | PAWN | 4 | The lowest form of defense in Chess |
| 28% | OVATE | 5 | In the form of a race track |
| 28% | GLYCOGEN | 8 | The storage form of glucose in animals |
| 27% | UNSTOW | 6 | Remove from under the seat in front of you, say |
| 27% | NEBULOUS | 8 | In the form of a haze or cloud |
| 27% | INCARNATE | 9 | The embodiment of a spirit in human form |
| 27% | RADIATING | 9 | Emitting in the form of waves |
| 27% | SPECIE | 6 | Money in the form of coins |
| 27% | USA | 3 | The Statue of Liberty stands in this country: Abbr. |
| 27% | LIBEL | 5 | Form of defamation when the communication is in writing |
| 27% | TNT | 3 | Airer of "Murder in the First": Abbr. |
| 27% | ACL | 3 | Source of stability in the knee: Abbr. |
| 27% | KIBBLE | 6 | Pet food in the form of pellets |
| 27% | SAGO | 4 | Starch sold in the form of pearls |
| 27% | VIVA | 4 | Examination in the form of an interview |
| 27% | PENNE | 5 | Pasta in the form of short tubes |
| 27% | RINGPOPS | 8 | Candy suckers in the form of jewelry |