| 100% | ASHOE | 5 | "... old woman who lived in ___" |
| 96% | ASHOE | 5 | "... old woman who lived in ___": 2 wds. |
| 94% | SHOE | 4 | "There was an old woman who lived in a ___ ..." |
| 94% | WAS | 3 | "There ___ an old woman who lived in a shoe ..." |
| 93% | ASHOE | 5 | "There was an old woman who lived in ___": 2 wds. |
| 93% | ASHOE | 5 | "There was an old woman who lived in ___ ...": 2 wds. |
| 77% | EVE | 3 | Woman who lived in Eden |
| 77% | NUNS | 4 | Women who live in convents |
| 76% | NUN | 3 | Woman who lives in a convent |
| 71% | INA | 3 | "There was an old woman who lived ___ shoe": 2 wds. |
| 71% | ANOLD | 5 | "There was ___ woman who lived in a shoe": 2 wds. |
| 70% | BABAYAGA | 8 | Older woman who eats children in Slavic folk tales |
| 67% | ASHOE | 5 | "...woman who lived in ___" |
| 66% | MARA | 4 | Wilson who voices the Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home, on “Welcome to Night Vale” |
| 65% | IRENE | 5 | Woman who's bid good night in an old song |
| 64% | SHOE | 4 | Where an old woman lived, in a nursery rhyme |
| 64% | SALACIA | 7 | Experimental film by Tourmaline about Mary Jones, a Black trans woman who lived in nineteenth-century New York |
| 63% | GOLDEN | 6 | "The ___ Girls," '80s sitcom about four older women who share a house in Florida |
| 63% | ASHOE | 5 | What the old woman of nursery rhyme fame lived in |
| 61% | JOB | 3 | Old Testament prophet who lived in the land of Uz |
| 59% | MARAWILSON | 10 | "Matilda" star who voices The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home, a character on 15-/51-Across: 2 wds. |
| 58% | ASHOE | 5 | "... who lived in ___" |
| 58% | ASHOE | 5 | "... who lived in —" |
| 58% | ASHOE | 5 | “... who lived in —” |
| 58% | ASHOE | 5 | “... who lived in --” |
| 58% | ASHOE | 5 | “... who lived in ___” |
| 56% | NUN | 3 | Woman who lives a very religious existence |
| 55% | ADAM | 4 | Man who lived in Eden |
| 55% | IOWAN | 5 | Person who lives in Dubuque |
| 55% | PETER | 5 | ___ Pan who lives in Neverland |