| 100% | ALIEN | 5 | ".... in tears amid the_____ corn": Keats |
| 44% | MAIZE | 5 | Corn, in the UK |
| 43% | TIS | 3 | "___ in the breath of heaven...": Keats |
| 43% | ONION | 5 | Tear-jerker in the kitchen |
| 43% | ONION | 5 | Tear-jerker in the kitchen? |
| 43% | ONION | 5 | Tear producer in the kitchen |
| 43% | DUCT | 4 | Tear ___ (passage in the head) |
| 42% | RASES | 5 | Tears down, in the U.K. |
| 42% | ONION | 5 | Tear-jerker set in the kitchen |
| 42% | ONION | 5 | Tear-jerker set in the kitchen? |
| 40% | ONION | 5 | Cause of tears in the kitchen |
| 40% | ONION | 5 | Producer of tears in the kitchen |
| 40% | PYREX | 5 | Oven-safe product introduced by the Corning Glass Works in 1915 |
| 40% | HEDGEMAIZE | 10 | Avoid the downside in a corn investment? |
| 40% | SILOS | 5 | Skyscrapers in the Corn Belt |
| 40% | IOWA | 4 | State in the Corn Belt |
| 39% | POP | 3 | What corn kernels often do in the microwave |
| 39% | POP | 3 | What corn kernels might do in the microwave |
| 38% | HANSARP | 7 | Worker in the medium of torn and pasted paper |
| 37% | EOS | 3 | Whose tears create the morning dew, in myth |
| 37% | IOWA | 4 | One of the major corn-contributing states in the United States |
| 35% | AMIBLUE | 7 | Standard with the lyric "Ain't these tears in my eyes tellin' you?" |
| 35% | CRYING | 6 | In tears |
| 35% | EOS | 3 | In myth, her tears created the morning dew |
| 34% | TIMETODIE | 9 | Roy Batty's final words from the Tears in Rain monologue from "Blade Runner" |
| 34% | ICRY | 4 | Flo Rida hit with the lyric "Champagne buckets still got two tears in it" |
| 34% | TOAUTUMN | 8 | The final work in John Keats's "1819 odes", composed after a walk near Winchester : 2 wds. |
| 34% | IOWA | 4 | U.S. state in the Corn Belt |
| 33% | SMOKEYROBINSON | 14 | "The Tears of a Clown" singer who received the BET Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015: 2 wds. |
| 33% | SYRIA | 5 | War-torn country in the middle east |