| 100% | NOI | 3 | "___ won't be afraid" ("Stand by Me" lyric) |
| 97% | NOI | 3 | "___ won't be afraid" ("Stand By Me" lyric) (2 wds.) |
| 59% | NOI | 3 | "___ won't be afraid" (1961 pop lyric) |
| 48% | DEFEATED | 8 | Waterloo chorus lyrics: I was __, you won the war |
| 45% | WIL | 3 | Wheaton of Stand by Me |
| 44% | REINER | 6 | Rob, award-winning director of Stand by Me |
| 44% | ARE | 3 | I won't use it, but you will |
| 43% | GPA | 3 | No. that won't be raised by an F |
| 42% | BENEKING | 8 | He sang and co-wrote Stand By Me |
| 42% | BENEKING | 8 | US singer and composer of Stand by Me |
| 42% | RIVERPHOENIX | 12 | "Stand by Me" actor whose first name is a medium-sized body of water: 2 wds. |
| 42% | WHAT | 4 | "___ Was I Made For" (Oscar-winning song by Billie Eilish) |
| 41% | CALVINCOOLIDGE | 14 | "I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say" |
| 41% | BENEKING | 8 | Singer who had a 1961 hit with Stand By Me |
| 40% | ONESEC | 6 | "I won't be long" |
| 40% | MADE | 4 | "What Was I ___ For?" ballad by Billie Eilish for the movie "Barbie" that won the 2024 Oscar for Best Original Song |
| 39% | ONI | 3 | "From now ___ won't be hanging around" (bluegrass lyric) |
| 39% | LIKEIUSEDTO | 11 | 2018 single by 43-Across with the lyrics "Never be the same / Won't trust you ... " (4 wds.) |
| 39% | NOCOMMENT | 9 | "I won't be addressing that" |
| 39% | NOSE | 4 | Win by a ___ (barely be victorious) |
| 39% | ROYALWE | 7 | I may be replaced by it |
| 39% | LIBEL | 5 | I'll be affected by defamation |
| 39% | PAULAPOUNDSTONE | 15 | Stand-up comic who is a recurring panelist on "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me" |
| 39% | FELDMAN | 7 | Corey —, actor who played Teddy Duchamp in 1986 adventure film Stand By Me |
| 39% | RUNNINGONEMPTY | 14 | 1978 single by 42-Across with the lyric "In '69, I was 21 and I called the road my own" (3 wds.) |
| 38% | DONTWAITUPFORME | 15 | "I won't be back till late" |
| 38% | ANOSE | 5 | Win by ___ (barely be victorious): 2 wds. |
| 38% | HERE | 4 | "___ I Am" by Jonathan Safran Foer |
| 38% | HERE | 4 | "___ I Am," song by Bryan Adams |