| 100% | HAD | 3 | "....we ___ seasons in the sun but the hills that we climbed..." (Westlife lyrics) |
| 39% | STARE | 5 | “I’ll ___ directly at the sun, but never in the mirror” (Taylor Swift lyric) |
| 39% | SUMMERS | 7 | Seasons in the sun |
| 38% | MIRROR | 6 | "I'll stare directly at the sun, but never in the ___" (Taylor Swift lyric) |
| 38% | TONS | 4 | Heavy weights that are usually short in the US, but long in the UK |
| 38% | SKILLETS | 8 | Things in the kitchen that might be seasoned but aren’t eaten |
| 37% | WINTERED | 8 | Spent a season in the sun? |
| 36% | KAHN | 4 | Roger who wrote "A Season in the Sun" |
| 35% | SPARTA | 6 | City name that occurs 19 times across the US, but oddly, only twice in Greece |
| 34% | CONE | 4 | Summer treat that melts in the sun |
| 34% | ALPS | 4 | The hills that are alive in "The Sound of Music" |
| 34% | CROC | 4 | Critter that likes to lie in the sun |
| 34% | MOTES | 5 | Bits of dust that dance in the sun |
| 33% | AMANDA | 6 | US poet Gorman, author of The Hill We Climb |
| 33% | ASTEROID | 8 | Rock that orbits the sun but isn't a planet |
| 33% | BREL | 4 | "Seasons in the Sun" songwriter |
| 33% | DEW | 3 | Drops of moisture on grass that may sparkle in the sun |
| 32% | ROCKMUSIC | 9 | Style of songs that started in the US in the 1940s |
| 32% | PHO | 3 | Vietnamese dish that gained popularity in the US in the 1990s |
| 32% | EXPAT | 5 | Person born in the US but now living abroad, for short |
| 32% | NAPOLI | 6 | "Old" Italian city that rhymes with "but you see" in the lyrics of the Dean Martin song "That's Amore" |
| 32% | ONES | 4 | "Here's to the ___ that we got..." ("Memories" lyrics) |
| 32% | MESAS | 5 | Flat-topped hills in the southwestern US |
| 32% | PBS | 3 | Network that airs "Sherlock" in the US |
| 32% | NOTA | 4 | "__ cloud in the sky, Got the sun in my eyes ... ": Carpenters lyric |
| 32% | AMANDA | 6 | Gorman who delivered the inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb” |
| 32% | SUREBET | 7 | That the sun will rise in the East, e.g. |
| 32% | ACROPOLIS | 9 | Hill in Athens that is the site of the Parthenon |
| 32% | BEANSTALK | 9 | Plant that Jack climbed in the fairy tale |
| 32% | KOHOUTEK | 8 | Comet that passed around the Sun in 1973 |