| 100% | COMRADESUNITE | 13 | "___ wasn't my first choice for a title, but no one other than me liked Quit Yer Stalin" |
| 26% | ITO | 3 | "... but no more like my father / Than ___ Hercules": Hamlet |
| 26% | ITO | 3 | ... but no more like my father / Than ___ Hercules: Hamlet |
| 24% | HOWCOULDIREFUSE | 15 | "There was no choice but for me to say yes!" |
| 24% | DENIAL | 6 | "It wasn't me," for one |
| 24% | DENIAL | 6 | "It wasn't me!," for one |
| 24% | HALE | 4 | I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country speaker |
| 23% | REGRET | 6 | "That I have but one life to lose for my country," to Hale |
| 23% | IMUST | 5 | "There's no other choice for me" |
| 23% | IHAVETO | 7 | "There's no other choice for me" (3 wds.) |
| 22% | IGUESSTHATWORKS | 15 | "Not my first choice, but it's fine" |
| 22% | HALE | 4 | Nathan who said "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" |
| 22% | IAN | 3 | McKellen who once said, “Some fan attention is odd, but no odder than a cereal box with me as Magneto on it” |
| 22% | CONTENDER | 9 | One vying for a title |
| 22% | YOKO | 4 | “John and ___ separated for a year / But we're not like them, no / Nothing like them” (Car Seat Headrest lyrics) |
| 22% | EVEN | 4 | Like the first prime number (but no others) |
| 22% | ANGST | 5 | No one understands me! feeling for many teens |
| 22% | IGOTTA | 6 | "Ain't no choice for me" |
| 22% | ROMAN | 5 | Like I, for one? |
| 21% | NEEDSMUST | 9 | "I didn't want to do it, but I have no choice!" |
| 21% | BEVERAGE | 8 | A drink, especially one other than water |
| 21% | ISP | 3 | A.T. & T., for one |
| 21% | BONO | 4 | I am a member of U2 and was named one of the Time Persons of the Year in 2005 for my philanthropic efforts |
| 21% | DESK | 4 | Place for a laptop other than a lap |
| 21% | AWOL | 4 | Like a no-show, for short |
| 21% | FOSSIL | 6 | Like a dinosaur bone, for one |
| 21% | NEWFIEYEAR | 10 | For a thick-coated dog, it's like seven human ones? |
| 21% | RET | 3 | Like one collecting a pension, for short |
| 20% | ISA | 3 | "Hope ___ Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have—But I Have It" (2019 Lana Del Rey single) |
| 20% | LOLLIPOP | 8 | My Boy __, first ska no. 1, for Millie |