| 100% | BLOCKADE | 8 | Union __ of the South, Lincoln proclaimed in 1861 |
| 50% | BURKE | 5 | Robert O'Hara —, leader of the first expedition across Australia from south to north who died in 1861 |
| 49% | BURKE | 5 | Robert O'Hara —, Irish soldier, leader of the first expedition across Australia from south to north, who died in 1861 |
| 46% | QUITO | 5 | Headquarters of the Union of South American Nations |
| 45% | LIMA | 4 | Site of the oldest university in South America |
| 45% | TEACHERS | 8 | Makeup of the largest labor union in the US |
| 45% | BRAZILIAN | 9 | A native of the largest country in South America |
| 44% | BOTHA | 5 | Louis —, first prime minister of the Union of South Africa |
| 44% | ELS | 3 | Designer of the golf course at Oubaai, in South Africa |
| 44% | PLUM | 4 | ___ blossom festival, celebration of the arrival of spring in South Korea |
| 43% | AFLCIO | 6 | Largest federation of unions in the US |
| 43% | OMOO | 4 | Melville novel subtitled "A Narrative of the Adventures in the South Seas" |
| 43% | SITHOLE | 7 | Ndabaningi —, founder of the Zimbabwe African National Union who died in 2000 |
| 43% | STAR | 4 | One of 12 in the European Union logo |
| 43% | SEL | 3 | Seasoning in the south of France |
| 43% | KRAKOW | 6 | City in the south of Poland |
| 42% | NKOMO | 5 | Joshua —, founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union who died in 1999 |
| 42% | PESO | 4 | Official currency of The Dominican Republic and also some countries in South America |
| 42% | CAPEHORN | 8 | Rocky headland in the very south of South America |
| 42% | HAT | 3 | One of Abraham Lincoln's is in the Smithsonian |
| 42% | SSE | 3 | Compass direction in the middle of south and southeast |
| 42% | AFL | 3 | ___-CIO (largest federation of unions in the United States) |
| 42% | AMERICAN | 8 | & 18D Unincorporated territory of the US in the South Pacific Ocean; capital Pago Pago |
| 42% | HELMWIND | 8 | North-easterly that blows down the south-west slope of Cross Fell in Cumbria |
| 41% | AEGINA | 6 | Island of Greece in the Saronic Gulf south of Salamis |
| 41% | SEVENTH | 7 | Like Maryland, in order of states admitted to the Union |
| 41% | BOER | 4 | Dutch settler of South Africa in the 18th-19th centuries |
| 41% | JOHANNESBURG | 12 | City in Gauteng, South Africa, housing the University of Witwatersrand |
| 41% | JEEPS | 5 | Dickie —, 1960-62 England Test captain; president of the Rugby Football Union in 1976-77 |