| 100% | LUMP | 4 | "I have a ___ in my throat after hearing his speech." (tight feeling due to a strong emotion) |
| 34% | PIT | 3 | "I have a bad feeling in the ___ of my stomach" |
| 33% | ANY | 3 | "I have a feeling we're not in Kansas ___ more" (Dorothy's line to 52-Across) |
| 31% | BROODY | 6 | Feeling a strong desire to have a baby |
| 31% | SNARK | 5 | "'That's a great idea' is what I would have said if I had never heard an idea before in my life," e.g. |
| 31% | OWE | 3 | "I ___ it all to my parents..." (words in a valedictorian's speech, maybe) |
| 31% | IMLATE | 6 | "Get out of my way. I have a meeting to get to!" |
| 29% | CROCE | 5 | "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" singer, 1974 |
| 29% | OVERSTAY | 8 | To remain in a country after your visa has expired |
| 29% | BIDET | 5 | Item which recently has seen a jump in sales due to toilet paper hoarding |
| 28% | MAGGIENELSON | 12 | Her 2009 book opens, “Suppose I were to begin by saying I had fallen in love with a color” |
| 28% | MRDARCY | 7 | To whom it is said, “I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry” |
| 28% | KEHUYQUAN | 9 | Actor who said, in his Oscar acceptance speech, “My journey started on a boat . . . and somehow, I ended up here” |
| 28% | KINGSMENTION | 12 | Passing reference in the "I Have a Dream" speech? |
| 28% | ERNIE | 5 | He said "I can't hear you, Bert, I've got a banana in my ear" |
| 28% | TMI | 3 | "Eww, I don't want to hear about it," in a text |
| 28% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Spiritual referenced in King's "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 28% | ILL | 3 | Feeling crummy due to a virus |
| 27% | EASEFUL | 7 | "I have been half in love with ___ Death": "Ode to a Nightingale" |
| 27% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Spiritual lyric quoted in King's "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 27% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Spiritual cited aspirationally in King's "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 27% | USAIN | 5 | I hold a world record in the 100, 200 and 4x100 meters relay and have my signature lightning bolt pose |
| 27% | FROG | 4 | Have a ___ in your throat (be hoarse) |
| 27% | KENDALLJENNER | 13 | Model who appeared in a Pepsi commercial which had to be later removed due to a lot of backlash in 2017: 2 wds. |
| 27% | LETFREEDOMRING | 14 | Repeated phrase in Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 27% | BLONDEONBLONDE | 14 | Bob Dylan album that he called "the closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind" |
| 27% | TREE | 4 | "On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear ___..." |
| 27% | LEOVII | 6 | Pope said to have died from a heart attack while in bed with his mistress |
| 27% | LETFREEDOMRING | 14 | Repeated phrase in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 27% | HIC | 3 | Telltale sound after "I haven't had a drop to drink" |