| 100% | WARCRIME | 8 | Violation of the Geneva Convention |
| 56% | OFFENSES | 8 | Violations of the law |
| 56% | TORTURE | 7 | The Geneva Conventions prohibit it |
| 55% | CHEMICAL | 8 | Type of weapons banned by the Geneva Convention |
| 55% | FOUL | 4 | Violation of the rules in football |
| 54% | WARCRIME | 8 | Geneva Convention violation |
| 52% | PERPETUALMOTION | 15 | Violation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics |
| 52% | UNSAFE | 6 | In violation of the building code, perhaps |
| 52% | LEGO | 4 | Focus of the Brickworld convention |
| 52% | UNUSUAL | 7 | Not part of the convention? |
| 50% | WRITTENUP | 9 | Reported for a violation of the rules: 2 wds. |
| 48% | ASTRODOME | 9 | Site of the 1992 Republican National Convention |
| 48% | ORLEANS | 7 | New ___, site of the 1988 Republican convention |
| 48% | CHI | 3 | Site of the 1968 Democratic convention, informally |
| 47% | SAN | 3 | ___ Francisco, venue of the first emoticon themed convention |
| 47% | SOS | 3 | Adoption of the International Radiotelegraph Convention in 1906 |
| 46% | EMIGRE | 6 | One seeking use of the 1951 Refugee Convention, perhaps |
| 46% | DENNY | 5 | Sandy ___, lead singer of the folk-rock group Fairport Convention |
| 45% | DDT | 3 | One of the Stockholm Convention's ''dirty dozen'' (2001) |
| 44% | MSG | 3 | Host of the 1992 Democratic National Convention & 2004 Republican National Convention (abbr.) |
| 44% | MSG | 3 | Site of the Democratic National Convention in 1976, 1980, and 1992 (abbr.) |
| 43% | ELEVEN | 6 | Number of letters in the country home to Geneva |
| 39% | RUBY | 4 | Lot 502 of the Geneva Sotheby's auction of May 2015 was one of these, which sold anonymously for 30 million USD |
| 39% | REDCROSS | 8 | International Committee of the —, humanitarian organisation formally established following the Geneva Convention of 1864 |
| 38% | PRISONCAMP | 10 | Geneva Convention concern |
| 38% | POWS | 4 | Geneva Convention concern |
| 38% | TORTURE | 7 | Geneva Convention concern |
| 38% | INFIDELITY | 10 | Violation of trust |
| 38% | SIN | 3 | Violation of morals |