| 100% | LET | 3 | "___ that sink in for a second" |
| 58% | NETBALL | 7 | Reason for a second serve, in tennis |
| 58% | BRB | 3 | "Stepping away for a second," in a text |
| 54% | EASEL | 5 | Stand for a painting that's in progress |
| 54% | EARWORM | 7 | Slang for a song that sticks in the mind |
| 54% | DECIDUOUS | 9 | Word for a tree that loses leaves in winter |
| 53% | BRB | 3 | "I need to step away from the conversation for a second," in a text |
| 53% | EXOCET | 6 | Missile that sank a British destroyer in the Falklands War |
| 53% | STU | 3 | Room for a recording artist, in slang that elides -dio |
| 52% | NOME | 4 | Ending place for a race that starts in March in Anchorage |
| 52% | VIPER | 5 | Dodge model, named for a snake, that ended production in 2017 |
| 52% | METOO | 5 | Twitter hashtag for a social movement that took off in 2017 |
| 52% | TACO | 4 | Slang term for a Frisbee that's been bent in half |
| 52% | NOWPLAYING | 10 | Trailer-ending words for a movie that’s already in theatres |
| 52% | VELVET | 6 | Material for a soft stool that was popular in the '70s |
| 52% | RETRIALS | 8 | Court cases that are tried for a second time |
| 52% | SEMI | 4 | Second-to-last round in a tournament, for short |
| 52% | SEMI | 4 | Second-to-last match in a tournament, for short |
| 51% | TWIT | 4 | British slang for a foolish person that can be found in "Twitter" |
| 51% | MACRAME | 7 | Material for a knotted wall decor that was popular in the '70s |
| 51% | TAB | 3 | Second document that can be opened in a web browser |
| 51% | DEMS | 4 | Those hoping for a "blue wave" in Nov. |
| 51% | SNIGLET | 7 | Term for a word that isn't in the dictionary but should be |
| 51% | TIE | 3 | ___ tack, tiny fastener for a formal neckpiece that helps hold it in place |
| 50% | OVERFLOW | 8 | Drain hole in a sink for draining excess water |
| 50% | NRA | 3 | Org. that's a topic in "Bowling for Columbine" |
| 50% | KOI | 3 | Fish that's a homophone for "love" in Japanese |
| 50% | USOC | 4 | Org. that added a P for "Paralympic" in 2019 |
| 50% | ARE | 3 | Verb that "R" may stand for in a text |
| 50% | DART | 4 | Acronym for a NASA space mission for defending Earth that was deployed in 2021 |