| 100% | TURNSOUT | 8 | "His popularity had taken a hit, but, as it ___ he may eventually win this election."(unexpected outcome): 2 wds. |
| 30% | ICAN | 4 | "___ take a hint!" ("You don't have to spell it out for me"): 2 wds. |
| 26% | TORRE | 5 | Joe ___, American former baseball player who has achieved over 2,000 hits as a player and 2,000 wins as a manager |
| 25% | MOMENTUM | 8 | A team on a winning streak might have it |
| 25% | TOMCRUISE | 9 | He reprised his role as a captain in Top Gun 2 |
| 25% | EVENIF | 6 | "I'll wait ___ it takes a long time ..." (I'll wait for as long as it takes ...): 2 wds. |
| 25% | STEWART | 7 | He has a hit song called Maggie May, Rod __ |
| 24% | SNOOPDOGG | 9 | He had a 2004 #1 hit "Drop It Like It's Hot" |
| 24% | THISMOMENT | 10 | "From ___ On," a hit song by Shania Twain, whose birthday it is today: 2 wds. |
| 24% | DIPINTO | 7 | Take a little bit from, as savings (2 wds.) |
| 24% | EVENSO | 6 | "Be that as it may" (2 wds.) |
| 24% | ALLTOLD | 7 | Taken as a whole: 2 wds. |
| 24% | SELLTO | 6 | Have as a customer: 2 wds. |
| 24% | THEDARKKNIGHT | 13 | Christopher Nolan hit which has its 10th anniversary this July: 3 wds. |
| 23% | MARX | 4 | "I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it" speaker |
| 23% | BEER | 4 | It may have a head but not a tail |
| 23% | CENTIPEDE | 9 | Arthropod named as it was thought to have a 100 legs but in fact has a varying number |
| 23% | USEON | 5 | Hit with, as a pickup line: 2 wds. |
| 23% | SEETO | 5 | Take care of, as a task: 2 wds. |
| 23% | BADTASTE | 8 | What a non-stylish person might have when it comes to clothes: 2 wds. |
| 23% | ONELOOK | 7 | It just took this before "I fell so hard in love with you," in a 1960s hit |
| 23% | INIT | 4 | Having a shot at winning: 2 wds. |
| 23% | BOBSYOURUNCLE | 13 | Expression, used as a concluding statement, that roughly means "There you have it!": 3 wds. |
| 23% | OWNUP | 5 | Take the blame, as for a mistake: 2 wds. |
| 23% | DALI | 4 | Surrealist who claimed that he had never taken drugs but that he himself was a drug |
| 23% | INTOTAL | 7 | Taken as a whole (2 wds.) |
| 23% | INALL | 5 | Taken as a whole (2 wds.) |
| 23% | SATFOR | 6 | Had taken, as a portrait |
| 23% | COP | 3 | He may have a beat |
| 23% | STABAT | 6 | Take a ___ (attempt): 2 wds. |