| HELENE | Hurricane that struck Newfoundland in 1958 |
| KATRINA | Hurricane that struck New Orleans in 2005 (7) |
| IAN | Hurricane that struck Florida in September |
| DORIAN | The hurricane that struck the Bahamas, causing the country's worst natural disaster |
| CABOT | Vikings probably arrived in Newfoundland in about 1000, but this Italian explorer with a better-known English name did the new finding in 1497 (5) |
| DESPOIR | Cap _'___ (Cape Spear, in Newfoundland, in French) |
| TERRANOVA | Capt. Scott's ice ship that means "Newfoundland" in Latin |
| EXXONVALDEZ | Oil tanker that struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, in March 1989 (5,6) |
| VALDEZ | Oil tanker that struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, in March 1989 (5,6) |
| EXXON | Oil tanker that struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, in March 1989 (5,6) |
| ASH | 72 people died in the ... Wednesday fires that struck Victoria and South Australia in 1983 |
| GREATPLAGUE | Event that struck London in 1665-66 |
| MATTHEW | Caravel that John Cabot sailed from Bristol to Newfoundland in 1497 (7) |
| RARE | William Hurt was a restaurateur in Newfoundland in 2001's ____ Birds. |
| NANA | Occasionally holding back, maintains Newfoundland in Peter Pan (4) |
| TITANIC | Luxury British liner which sank near Newfoundland in 1912 (7) |
| IRENE | Hurricane that followed Harvey in 2011 |
| BETH | Hurricane that slammed Nova Scotia in 1971 |
| CAROL | Hurricane that hit New Brunswick in 1953 |
| HAZEL | Hurricane that blasted Ontario in 1954 |
