| 100% | TURNING | 7 | "The lady's not for __", Thatcher quote of 1980 |
| 50% | ICOULD | 6 | “It’s not out of the question for me” |
| 49% | IONLYHAVEONEBAR | 15 | "There's not enough chocolate for the both of us!" |
| 49% | GORY | 4 | Not for the faint of heart |
| 48% | NOVEL | 5 | Scholastique Mukasonga’s “Our Lady of the Nile,” for one |
| 44% | IMPRUDENT | 9 | Not showing care for the consequences of an action |
| 44% | QUEENBEY | 8 | Nickname for the singer of "Single Ladies" |
| 44% | SINE | 4 | What the S of "sohcahtoa" stands for |
| 44% | IRON | 4 | ___ Lady (nickname for Margaret Thatcher or the Eiffel Tower) |
| 44% | SPAGHETTI | 9 | Dinner of choice for Lady and the Tramp |
| 44% | TIDEPOOLS | 9 | Homes for creatures of the not-so-deep |
| 43% | SANE | 4 | Not a candidate for the invoking of the 25th Amendment, say |
| 43% | MINI | 4 | Skirt that's not for the modest |
| 43% | LACK | 4 | "It's not for a ___ of trying" |
| 43% | XXXX | 4 | "It's not for lack of effort" |
| 43% | YENTE | 5 | Lady who acted as the shadchan for the fictional village of Anatevka |
| 42% | RADNER | 6 | One of the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players |
| 42% | OUTTAKE | 7 | Scene not used for the final version of a film |
| 42% | RUSSIANBEAR | 11 | Misha, mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, for one |
| 41% | THEELEPHANTMAN | 14 | 1980 film that led to the creation of the Academy Award for Best Makeup |
| 41% | PEDI | 4 | Spa treatment that's not for the ticklish, in brief |
| 41% | SCI | 3 | The "S" of STEM, for short |
| 41% | SYS | 3 | The "S" of iPadOS, for short |
| 41% | SYS | 3 | The "S" of GPS, for short |
| 41% | SYS | 3 | The "S" of "GPS," for short |
| 41% | SYS | 3 | The "S" of OS, for short |
| 40% | VERNE | 5 | Author of the quote "I am not what you call a civilized man!" |
| 40% | BLUNTNESS | 9 | Quality of being straightforward and direct, not caring for the feelings of another |
| 40% | TESLA | 5 | Inventor for whom the S.I. unit of magnetic-flux density is named |
| 40% | END | 3 | "It's not the ___ of the world" |