| 100% | MEN | 3 | "Luxuries," not "necessities," per Cher |
| 50% | ALTO | 4 | Cher, but not Sonny |
| 47% | MIDCULT | 7 | Not quite highbrow, per Dwight Macdonald |
| 45% | NECESSITY | 9 | Essential item, not a luxury |
| 44% | LUXURY | 6 | Item of elegance, not a necessity |
| 43% | AWRY | 4 | Gone ___ (did not go as per plan) |
| 43% | GOD | 3 | Who "does not play dice," per Einstein |
| 42% | POETRY | 6 | "__ Is Not a Luxury": essay by Audre Lorde |
| 40% | POEM | 4 | It "should not mean / But be," per Archibald MacLeish |
| 40% | SIZE | 4 | It's not everything, per a saying |
| 39% | TAMPONTAX | 9 | Cost associated with not classifying menstrual products as basic necessities |
| 39% | UNEXAMINED | 10 | Like a life that's not worth living, per Socrates |
| 39% | WIT | 3 | "The salt of conversation, not the food," per William Hazlitt |
| 38% | OCCAMS | 6 | Philosophical razor that states "Entities should not be multiplied without necessity" |
| 37% | ASP | 3 | "The pretty worm of Nilus ... that kills and pains not," per Shakespeare |
| 37% | ASS | 3 | Something of your neighbor's not to covet, per the Ten Commandments |
| 35% | ART | 3 | What we have "in order not to die of the truth," per Nietzsche |
| 34% | SCIENCE | 7 | "It's true whether or not you believe in it," per Neil deGrasse Tyson |
| 33% | ZEUS | 4 | For whom "it is not possible either to trick or escape the mind," per Hesiod |
| 33% | SCIENCE | 7 | Something that's "true whether or not you believe in it," per Neil deGrasse Tyson |
| 32% | MELTS | 5 | What an M&M does “in your mouth, not in your hand,” per a longtime slogan |
| 31% | FRILLS | 6 | Luxuries |
| 31% | INDULGENCES | 11 | Luxuries |
| 31% | NEEDS | 5 | Necessities |
| 31% | MUSTS | 5 | Necessities |
| 31% | REQUIREMENTS | 12 | Necessities |
| 31% | DIEM | 4 | Per ___ |
| 31% | EACH | 4 | Per |
| 31% | CAPITA | 6 | Per _____ |
| 31% | APOP | 4 | Per |