| 100% | EVILEMPIRE | 10 | The Soviet Union, to Reagan |
| 88% | EVIL | 4 | The Soviet Union's type of empire, according to President Reagan |
| 79% | EVILEMPIRE | 10 | Soviet Union, to Reagan |
| 62% | CLIENTSTATE | 11 | Cuba, once, to the Soviet Union |
| 61% | USSR | 4 | The Soviet Union |
| 59% | EVIL | 4 | ___ empire (what Reagan called the Soviet Union) |
| 57% | LENIN | 5 | Founder of the Soviet Union |
| 57% | LEONID | 6 | Brezhnev of the Soviet Union |
| 57% | HARRIMAN | 8 | U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during W.W. II |
| 56% | LENIN | 5 | First premier of the Soviet Union |
| 56% | LENIN | 5 | First head of the Soviet Union |
| 55% | KGB | 3 | Spy agency of the Soviet Union: Abbr. |
| 55% | NINOTCHKA | 9 | 1939 film banned in the Soviet Union |
| 55% | LENIN | 5 | Leader of the Soviet Union before Stalin |
| 55% | MIR | 3 | Space station launched by the Soviet Union |
| 54% | GORBACHEV | 9 | Eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union |
| 54% | RAISA | 5 | ___ Gorbachev, former first lady of the Soviet Union |
| 54% | TASS | 4 | Former principal news agency of the Soviet Union |
| 54% | NINOTCHKA | 9 | 1939 Best Picture nominee banned in the Soviet Union |
| 54% | RYKOV | 5 | Alexei —, premier of the Soviet Union from 1924-30 |
| 54% | GORKYPARK | 9 | Martin Cruz Smith thriller set in the Soviet Union |
| 54% | STALIN | 6 | Ruler of the Soviet Union from 1924 until 1953 |
| 54% | TROTSKY | 7 | He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1929 |
| 53% | TEAMB | 5 | CIA's 1976 project to analyze the Soviet Union threats (2 wds) |
| 53% | STALIN | 6 | He led the Soviet Union from the 1920s until 1953 |
| 53% | EXILE | 5 | Leon Trotsky vis-à-vis the Soviet Union, for one |
| 52% | STALIN | 6 | Premier who represented the Soviet Union at the 1945 Yalta Conference |
| 52% | ZHUKOV | 6 | Georgy —, Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1955-57 |
| 50% | KGB | 3 | Soviet counterpart to the CIA: Abbr. |
| 49% | KGB | 3 | Soviet counterpart to the CIA, once: Abbr. |