| 100% | ZEPHYR | 6 | "...and soft the ___ blows": Thomas Gray |
| 53% | ELEGISTS | 8 | Thomas Gray and others |
| 52% | ODE | 3 | Thomas Gray's "___ on the Spring" |
| 48% | FOES | 4 | The Blue and the Gray, once |
| 47% | LOBE | 4 | Soft and fleshy part of the ear |
| 45% | MANN | 4 | Thomas —, author of novels Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain |
| 44% | MANN | 4 | Thomas —, author of the novels Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain |
| 44% | PALATE | 6 | The roof of the mouth, with soft and hard areas |
| 44% | HERRING | 7 | Soft-finned food fish such as the Atlantic — and Pacific — |
| 43% | HITCHER | 7 | The —, 1986 film thriller starring Rutger Hauer and C Thomas Howell |
| 43% | MIST | 4 | The —, 2007 horror film starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden |
| 43% | PYNCHON | 7 | Thomas —, author of novels Vineland and The Crying of Lot 49 |
| 43% | CORDELIA | 8 | The "Her" of "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low" |
| 43% | ABRAHAM | 7 | Face to the right of George, Thomas and Theodore |
| 43% | ODE | 3 | Thomas Gray's "The Bard," e.g. |
| 42% | FLIPYOURLID | 11 | Blow a gasket, and what we've done in the circled letters |
| 42% | MANN | 4 | Actor Thomas of "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" |
| 42% | NAST | 4 | Cartoonist Thomas who popularized the Republican elephant and Democratic donkey |
| 42% | BURROUGHS | 9 | William —, author of novels The Soft Machine and Nova Express |
| 41% | SHERATON | 8 | Thomas —, furniture maker who authored The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book |
| 41% | SHERATON | 8 | Thomas —, furniture maker; author of The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book |
| 41% | BUFF | 4 | Soft thick leather made chiefly from the skin of buffalo, oxen and elk |
| 41% | CATS | 4 | The Sphynx breed of these are unlikely to generate soft and furry feelings |
| 41% | WIT | 3 | "___ and wisdom are like the seven stars, seldom seen together": Thomas Fuller |
| 41% | TREEFROG | 8 | Arboreal amphibian such as the gray — of the US and Canada |
| 41% | ABRAHAM | 7 | Mount Rushmore face to the right of George, Thomas, and Theodore |
| 41% | LINACRE | 7 | Thomas —, chief founder and first president of the Royal College of Physicians in London |
| 40% | ISON | 4 | “Time ___ My Side” (song covered by Irma Thomas and the Rolling Stones) |
| 40% | CHANGELING | 10 | The —, Jacobean tragedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley featuring the characters Alsemero and Jasperino |
| 40% | LIONKING | 8 | The —, 1994 animated film starring the voice talent of Matthew Broderick and Jonathan Taylor Thomas |