| 100% | ALAS | 4 | "That's the way the cookie crumbles" |
| 100% | CESTLAVIE | 9 | "That's the way the cookie crumbles" |
| 100% | SOITGOES | 8 | "That's the way the cookie crumbles" |
| 82% | FATE | 4 | The way the cookie crumbles |
| 78% | CRUMBLES | 8 | "That's the way the cookie ___," idiom that means an unpleasant situation must be accepted as it is |
| 72% | WAY | 3 | "That's the ___ the cookie crumbles" |
| 67% | TREND | 5 | That's the way it goes |
| 66% | ITIS | 4 | "Sorry, that's the way __" |
| 64% | ITIS | 4 | "And that's the way ___": 2 wds. |
| 64% | FRAIDSO | 7 | "Yep, that's the way it is" |
| 64% | ITIS | 4 | “And that’s the way —” |
| 63% | AND | 3 | "___ that's the way it is" (Cronkite sign-off) |
| 62% | CRUMBLES | 8 | That's how the cookie __ |
| 61% | OREO | 4 | Cookie that's the same color as crosswords |
| 61% | OREO | 4 | Cookie that’s the “dirt” in dirt pudding |
| 60% | STATUSQUO | 9 | That's just the way it is |
| 60% | BALL | 4 | "That's the way the ___ bounces" |
| 59% | OREO | 4 | Cookie that's used as the "dirt" in dirt pudding |
| 59% | STREETPARTY | 11 | Celebration that's in the way |
| 59% | IMPEDIMENT | 10 | Something that's in the way |
| 59% | STREETLIGHT | 11 | Illumination that's in the way |
| 58% | OREO | 4 | Cookie that's crumbled on some sundaes |
| 58% | ISNT | 4 | "___ that always the way?" |
| 57% | OREO | 4 | Cookie that's sometimes crumbled over frozen yogurt |
| 57% | OREO | 4 | Cookie that's the subject of the Wiz Khalifa song "Playful 4 Life" |
| 56% | SOBEIT | 6 | "That's the way things are" |
| 56% | GUIDEPOST | 9 | Sign that shows the way |
| 55% | OREO | 4 | Cookie that's sometimes crumbled as a frozen yogurt topping |
| 55% | OREO | 4 | Cookie that's sometimes crumbled for an ice cream topping |
| 55% | SIDEDOOR | 8 | Way in that's not the front or the back |