| 100% | HATE | 4 | "A failure of imagination," per Graham Greene |
| 69% | HATE | 4 | What Graham Greene called a "failure of imagination" |
| 45% | FLOP | 4 | Failure of a film |
| 45% | DUD | 3 | Failure of a firecracker |
| 43% | AFFAIR | 6 | Graham Greene novel, The End of the __ |
| 42% | BRIGHTON | 8 | Graham Greene novel with a candy name: __ Rock |
| 41% | MEMORYLAPIS | 11 | Small failure of recall, to a jeweler? |
| 40% | PHANTASM | 8 | A figment of one's imagination |
| 40% | END | 3 | "The ___ of the Affair" (Graham Greene novel made into a Neil Jordan film) |
| 39% | ANNUM | 5 | Per ___: over the course of a year |
| 39% | BADHAIRDAY | 10 | Result of a permanent failure? |
| 39% | FLOOD | 5 | Result of a bank failure? |
| 39% | FIGMENT | 7 | A __ of one's imagination; something made up |
| 38% | ZSA | 3 | 50 per cent of a Gabor |
| 38% | THUD | 4 | Result of a failure |
| 38% | THUD | 4 | Sound of a failure |
| 38% | HOWARDSENDOFTHEAFFAIR | 21 | "Frost/Nixon" director's copy of a Graham Greene novel? |
| 38% | FICTION | 7 | A type of writing created from one's imagination |
| 38% | PRETTYCRASHACCOUNT | 18 | Beautifully illustrated report of a computer failure? |
| 38% | OUTAGE | 6 | Result of a power-transformer failure, probably |
| 38% | MEGAHERTZ | 9 | Frequency of a million cycles per second |
| 37% | THORN | 5 | Source of pain for a lion, per Aesop |
| 37% | REAL | 4 | Not a figment of the imagination |
| 36% | END | 3 | Destiny of good things, as per a popular proverb |
| 36% | ANT | 3 | One of 20 quadrillion worldwide, per a recent estimate |
| 36% | FIRE | 4 | Partner of "fury," per a recent Trump comment |
| 36% | PAVAROTTI | 9 | ''A great volcano of a man who sang fire,'' per Bono |
| 35% | PAYRATE | 7 | Amount of money received per unit time in a job |
| 35% | TAXISTANDARD | 12 | 40¢ per fifth of a mile, in New York City? |
| 35% | DESPAIR | 7 | "The shadow of a starless night," per Percy Bysshe Shelley |