| 100% | CREW | 4 | "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" band Cutting ___ |
| 62% | ARMS | 4 | "(I Just) Died in Your ___" (Cutting Crew hit song) |
| 61% | DIED | 4 | "(I Just) ___ in Your Arms" (1986 Cutting Crew hit) |
| 53% | DIED | 4 | Cutting Crew #1 hit song "(I Just) ___ in Your Arms" |
| 42% | INNUENDO | 8 | "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?," e.g. |
| 42% | CARRYING | 8 | Holding in your arms |
| 42% | BASS | 4 | Instrument that Tracy played in her band on "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 41% | RENO | 4 | "But I shot a man in ___ just to watch him die" (Johnny Cash line) |
| 41% | RENO | 4 | "But I shot a man in ___ just to watch him die" (Johnny Cash lyric) |
| 41% | RENO | 4 | “But I shot a man in ___, just to watch him die” (Johnny Cash lyric) |
| 41% | RENO | 4 | "But I shot a man in ___ just to watch him die" ("Folsom Prison Blues") |
| 40% | ULNAS | 5 | You hold them in your arms |
| 38% | HUMERUS | 7 | Long upper bone in your arm, above the elbow |
| 37% | TMBG | 4 | "Birdhouse in Your Soul" band, briefly |
| 36% | GISELLE | 7 | Ballet whose title heroine dies in Act I |
| 36% | AHEM | 4 | "May I cut in?" |
| 35% | OPE | 3 | "Let me just scoot past you," in the Midwest |
| 35% | FIND | 4 | "Can you ___ it in your heart to forgive me?" |
| 35% | DIRESTRAITS | 11 | "Brothers in Arms" band |
| 35% | AHEM | 4 | ''Can I cut in?'' noise |
| 35% | BASQUIAT | 8 | New York artist who died in 1988 aged just 27 |
| 34% | DIRE | 4 | "Brothers in Arms" band ___ Straits |
| 34% | TED | 3 | Mosby in "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 34% | IMNEXT | 6 | "Don't cut in front of me!" |
| 34% | DIRE | 4 | ___ Straits (“Brothers in Arms” band) |
| 34% | REAL | 4 | Not just in your head |
| 33% | TED | 3 | The "I" in "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 33% | ELO | 3 | "Don't Bring Me Down" band, in brief |
| 33% | ELIO | 4 | Main character in "Call Me by Your Name" |
| 33% | TED | 3 | ____ Mosby, protagonist in "How I Met Your Mother" |