| 100% | TIME | 4 | "The ___ of My Life" (theme for "Dirty Dancing") |
| 75% | IVE | 3 | "(___ Had) The Time of My Life" ("Dirty Dancing" theme song) |
| 68% | HAD | 3 | "Dirty Dancing" theme song "(I've ___) The Time of My Life" |
| 65% | IVE | 3 | "(___ Had) The Time of My Life" (song from "Dirty Dancing") |
| 61% | TIME | 4 | (I've Had) the ___ of My Life," song from "Dirty Dancing" that features in season 2 of "The Office" |
| 55% | AUTOBIOGRAPHY | 13 | The story of my life? |
| 54% | LOVE | 4 | "You're the ___ of my life" |
| 53% | COAL | 4 | Kind of mine for The Police's canary |
| 52% | TIMES | 5 | "___ of My Life," 1978 book by the former first lady of the US, Betty Ford |
| 52% | LUTHERVANDROSS | 14 | His "Dance With My Father" won the 2003 Grammy for Song of the Year |
| 51% | ANT | 3 | The protagonist of “A Bug’s Life,” for example |
| 50% | LIFESPAN | 8 | The length of time for which a person lives |
| 50% | ROOT | 4 | The Gaelic "uisge beatha," meaning "water of life," for "whiskey" |
| 50% | LIFE | 4 | "(I've Had) The Time of My ___," song from the movie "Dirty Dancing" that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1987 |
| 50% | PATRICKSWAYZE | 13 | “The Time of My Life” (2009) |
| 49% | WARRANTY | 8 | Manufacturer's promise for the life of a product |
| 49% | IGGYPOP | 7 | Punk artist of Lust for Life; fronted the Stooges |
| 49% | TURKEY | 6 | __ trot, dance of the 1900s for the bird, maybe |
| 49% | HELEN | 5 | "The Story of My Life" author Keller |
| 48% | ASRAMAS | 7 | Sanskrit for any of the Hindu four stages of life |
| 48% | STALINERA | 9 | Setting for "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" |
| 48% | AUTO | 4 | Prefix with "biography" for the story of one's life |
| 48% | IVE | 3 | "___ had the time of my life!" |
| 48% | IVE | 3 | "___ had the time of my life..." |
| 48% | IVE | 3 | "___ had the time of my life ..." |
| 47% | ILLBE | 5 | "___ There For You," theme song of the sitcom "Friends": 2 wds. |
| 47% | STEVIE | 6 | "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" singer Wonder |
| 47% | DNA | 3 | Building blocks for all life, part of the life's genetic code |
| 47% | SAMSMITH | 8 | Singer of the theme song for the Bond movie "Spectre": 2 wds. |
| 47% | TOMJONES | 8 | Singer of the theme song for the Bond movie "Thunderball": 2 wds. |