| 100% | CULT | 4 | "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" band Blue Öyster ___ |
| 71% | BLUE | 4 | *___ Oyster Cult, band with hits like "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and "Burnin' for You" |
| 60% | FEAR | 4 | "(Don't ___) The Reaper" (Blue Öyster Cult hit) |
| 49% | CULT | 4 | Blue Öyster ___ ("Burnin' for You" band) |
| 45% | JIB | 3 | "I don't like the cut of her ___" (behavior) |
| 44% | NOIT | 4 | "___ Isn't" (song by the rock band +44) |
| 43% | ASS | 3 | "If he don't love you anymore / Just walk your fine ___ out the door" (Lizzo lyric) |
| 42% | ALLMAN | 6 | The ___ Brothers Band ("Ramblin' Man" group) |
| 41% | OBEY | 4 | ___ the law (what criminals don't do) |
| 41% | STOP | 4 | "Don't ___ the Music" (Rihanna song) |
| 40% | IDLE | 4 | The ___ rich (wealthy people who don't need to work) |
| 40% | SIMPLEMINDS | 11 | Scottish New Wave band with the 1985 hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)": 2 wds. |
| 40% | TELL | 4 | "___ me the truth" ("Don't lie") |
| 40% | SKY | 3 | "Why is the ___ blue?" (child's question) |
| 39% | HEY | 3 | "___ There Delilah" (song by the Plain White T's) |
| 39% | PITY | 4 | "I ___ the fool!" (Mr. T's exclamation) |
| 39% | LAVA | 4 | The floor is ___ (game also called "don't touch the ground") |
| 39% | SIMPLE | 6 | ___ Minds ["Don't You (Forget About Me)" band] |
| 39% | HYPE | 4 | "Don't believe the ___" ("It's overrated") |
| 39% | MUM | 3 | "___'s the word" ("Don't tell anyone") |
| 39% | SKY | 3 | "Why is the ___ blue?" (child's question, perhaps) |
| 39% | CHA | 3 | "Don't ___" (mid-2000s hit by the Pussycat Dolls) |
| 38% | HOFF | 4 | "Don't Hassel the ___" (autobiography of a "Baywatch" star) |
| 38% | HYPE | 4 | "Don't Believe the ___" (Public Enemy song inspired by Noam Chomsky) |
| 38% | STOCKING | 8 | (4/8) "...I don't need to hang my ___ there upon the fireplace..." |
| 38% | IDEA | 4 | "I don't have the faintest ___!" |
| 38% | TAKE | 4 | "Don't have to always be right, let me ___ some of the punches" (lyric from a 2005 song) |
| 38% | GET | 3 | "I don't ___ it" (don't understand) |
| 37% | TOSET | 5 | "I don't want ___ the world on fire" |
| 37% | OUT | 3 | "...___ of the blue" (suddenly) |