| 100% | THATSSURPRISING | 15 | "Never would have guessed it!" |
| 62% | BYMERESTCHANCE | 14 | As luck would have it |
| 62% | SERENDIPITOUSLY | 15 | As luck would have it |
| 60% | HAVE | 4 | "I never would ___ thought it!" |
| 60% | FORTUNATELY | 11 | "As luck would have it …" |
| 59% | HAVE | 4 | "I never would ___ guessed!" |
| 59% | LUCK | 4 | "As ___ would have it..." |
| 57% | ALAS | 4 | As bad luck would have it |
| 57% | SADLY | 5 | As bad luck would have it |
| 56% | LUCK | 4 | "As ___ would have it ..." ("Just by chance ...") |
| 55% | WHO | 3 | "___ would have thought it?" |
| 55% | HOCKEYGAME | 10 | It will sometimes have icing |
| 55% | MMI | 3 | Noted film, as old Romans would have it |
| 55% | AMOURPROPRE | 11 | Self-esteem, as the French would have it |
| 55% | YOLO | 4 | “I guess it’s now or never, huh” |
| 54% | SCOPE | 5 | It will have you seeing things |
| 54% | DUH | 3 | I would have thought it was obvious |
| 53% | THATSO | 6 | "Never would have thought" |
| 52% | OFALIFETIME | 11 | That one will never have again |
| 52% | NEEDSADULTSUPERVISION | 21 | In other words, mom or dad will have to operate it |
| 51% | SPITE | 5 | Betting it has energy and ill will |
| 51% | ESP | 3 | It would help when guessing tomorrow's lottery numbers: Abbr. |
| 50% | EWER | 4 | It has a lip and a mouth but never speaks |
| 50% | MGM | 3 | Goldwyn never had a 24 Down of it |
| 50% | PIN | 3 | What a brooch would have that lets you attach it to a garment |
| 49% | JAMES | 5 | With 3-Down, without whom "the Beatles would have never existed," according to Lennon |
| 48% | OER | 3 | Over, as Shakespeare would have written it |
| 48% | ODDLY | 5 | "You'd never have guessed, but ..." |
| 48% | MICROSOFTWORD | 13 | "The document would have taken forever without this program's templates. It really came through!" |
| 46% | WHOKNEW | 7 | ''Would you have guessed?'' [last letter] |