| 100% | MANY | 4 | "I had not thought death had undone so ___": "The Waste Land" |
| 41% | ROSA | 4 | "I knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move" writer Parks |
| 40% | DOWN | 4 | "The moon is ___; I have not heard the clock": "Macbeth" |
| 35% | OARS | 4 | "I don't think he has both ___ in the water" |
| 35% | FIZZLED | 7 | *I thought I had a good firework joke, but in the end, it just ___ out! (ended weakly) |
| 35% | AREA | 4 | "I was in the ___, so I thought I'd drop by" |
| 35% | AREA | 4 | "I was in the ___ so I thought I'd stop by" |
| 34% | TSE | 3 | The Waste Land monogram |
| 34% | DYLANTHOMAS | 11 | "I've had 18 straight whiskies. I think that's the record" |
| 34% | EAVE | 4 | The boy had so much fun at Disney Land he never wanted to l___ |
| 33% | STRAWMANFALLACY | 15 | "Scarecrow thinks the only thing one needs is a brain. Not so!" |
| 33% | DARESTO | 7 | "A man who ___ waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin |
| 33% | SHORTFORM | 9 | Well, I'm only 5'6, so I think I can use the ___" |
| 32% | IAN | 3 | I wrote the James Bond series which has been adapted into films twenty-six times so far |
| 32% | INON | 4 | " I think both of them were ___ it. They seemed so calm during the assault" : 2 wds. |
| 32% | SILLYME | 7 | "What could I have been thinking?" |
| 32% | FUN | 3 | "All I wanna do is have some ___ / I got a feelin' I'm not the only one" (Sheryl Crow lyric) |
| 32% | XXXXXX | 6 | "I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear ___?": "Macbeth" |
| 31% | EMINEM | 6 | He had the 2000 autobiographical lyric "I think I was put here to annoy the world |
| 31% | ABOARD | 6 | Having not missed the bus |
| 31% | HADMY | 5 | "Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have ___ vision." closing lines from "To the Lighthouse": 2 wds. |
| 31% | TSELIOT | 7 | American-British poet who wrote The Waste Land |
| 31% | TSELIOT | 7 | British American poet who wrote The Waste Land |
| 31% | INME | 4 | "I didn't think I had it ___" |
| 31% | DEEMS | 5 | Thinks chap has brought me back |
| 31% | PREOP | 5 | Having not yet made the cut? |
| 31% | STEPFORMAN | 10 | "One small ____, one giant leap for mankind," what 31a was initially thought to have said upon landing on the Moon: 3 wds. |
| 30% | TIRESIAS | 8 | Blind prophet from legend found in The Waste Land |
| 30% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet from Missouri, wrote The Waste Land in 1922 |
| 30% | POSTHOCERGOPROPTERHOC | 21 | What's more, one of those friends won the lottery right after solving it — coincidence? I think not! |