| 100% | CANNAE | 6 | Village in Apulia, Italy; scene of a victory by Hannibal over the Romans in 216 BC |
| 50% | CRECY | 5 | Village in France; scene of a 1346 victory by the English in the Hundred Years' War |
| 36% | CANNAE | 6 | Battle of __, great victory for Hannibal in 216 BC |
| 36% | NASEBY | 6 | Village in Northamptonshire; site of a 1645 victory for Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War |
| 35% | BRINDISI | 8 | Port in Apulia, Italy, on the Adriatic Sea; a major Roman naval centre |
| 35% | PINCENEZ | 8 | Pair of glasses without arms held in place by a clip that fits over the nose |
| 35% | LEUCTRA | 7 | Village in Boeotia, Ancient Greece; scene of a battle fought in July, 371 BC |
| 35% | ISSUS | 5 | Ancient town in Asia Minor; scene of a 333 BC battle at which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians |
| 34% | MONTECASSINO | 12 | Site of a Benedictine monastery in central Italy accidentally destroyed by the Allies in 1944 |
| 33% | ELOBEID | 7 | City in central Sudan; scene of the defeat of a British and Egyptian army by the Mahdi in 1883 |
| 32% | OBERAMMERGAU | 12 | Village in Bavaria, Germany; scene of a decennial Passion Play |
| 32% | CASCA | 5 | Roman soldier in a series of novels by Barry Sadler beginning with 1979's The Eternal Mercenary |
| 32% | CORALSEA | 8 | Scene of a May 1942 U.S. victory in W.W. II |
| 32% | GUELPH | 6 | Member of a political faction in medieval Italy that supported the Papacy and opposed the Holy Roman emperor and the Ghibellines |
| 31% | OPERATIC | 8 | In the style of a work by Bizet, such as Carmen |
| 31% | IWOJIMA | 7 | Site of a 1945 Allied victory in the Pacific |
| 31% | DRYMARTIN | 9 | What "should be made by filling a glass with gin, then waving it in the general direction of Italy," per Noël Coward |
| 31% | RECHARGE | 8 | To boost the battery of a device by plugging it in |
| 30% | III | 3 | Roman numeral in the last title of a trilogy |
| 30% | III | 3 | Roman numeral in the name of a second sequel |
| 30% | III | 3 | Roman numeral in the title of a second sequel |
| 30% | SURABAYA | 8 | City in East Java; scene of a 1945 battle in the Indonesian National Revolution |
| 30% | EXTRA | 5 | Person in the background of a movie scene |
| 30% | COLENSO | 7 | Town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; scene of a December 1899 battle in the Second Boer War |
| 30% | ADRAMACRITICIS | 14 | Part 1 of a quip by the writer named in the circled letters |
| 30% | SERIF | 5 | Feature of a letter in the Times Roman typeface |
| 30% | BLUE | 4 | & 15A The —, common title of a waltz by Johann Strauss the Younger, Op 314, which premiered in 1867 |
| 30% | DEBT | 4 | Student ___ (subject of a forgiveness plan announced by the Biden Administration in August, 2022) |