| 100% | LIEU | 4 | "The shopkeeper gave me a veg burger in ___ of hamburger" (instead of) |
| 41% | BEETS | 5 | Source of the "blood" in a meatless burger, maybe |
| 41% | PUSHUP | 6 | One of the twenty in “Drop and give me twenty!” |
| 40% | ANGELOU | 7 | Author of the poetry collection “Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie” |
| 40% | ONEEYED | 7 | Like a cyclops or some of the Minions in "Despicable Me": Hyph. |
| 40% | MIDAS | 5 | He was given the ears of a donkey, in myth |
| 39% | OASIS | 5 | Place giving relief in the middle of a desert |
| 39% | STANLEE | 7 | He had a cameo in The Avengers with the line "Superheroes in New York? Give me a break!" |
| 39% | SURRENDER | 9 | To give in, especially at the end of a battle |
| 39% | SATE | 4 | Word that can fill in the blanks in _ _ T I A _ _ to form a synonym of itself |
| 38% | ANSWER | 6 | It's given in the form of a question on "Jeopardy!" |
| 38% | SPEE | 4 | Last word in the name of a WW I German warship |
| 38% | YEAN | 4 | Give birth to, in the case of a sheep or a goat (archaic term) |
| 38% | ROSES | 5 | Flowers in a wreath given to the winner of the Kentucky Derby |
| 38% | NADAL | 5 | Athlete given a noble title by the king of Spain in 2025 |
| 38% | MILAN | 5 | I'm a city in Italy and my nickname is "Fashion Capital of the World" |
| 37% | PIT | 3 | "I have a bad feeling in the ___ of my stomach" |
| 37% | FOMO | 4 | Reason to hit the town on a Friday night instead of staying home in your p.j.’s |
| 37% | EVER | 4 | "If you're ___ in a jam, here I am" (first line of the classic song "Friendship") |
| 37% | MAYAANGELOU | 11 | Writer whose first collection of poetry, "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie," was published in 1971 (2 wds.) |
| 37% | OPERA | 5 | Peter Benchley described it as "where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings" |
| 37% | TREE | 4 | "On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear ___..." |
| 37% | ROAM | 4 | "... give me a home where the buffalo ___ ..." |
| 37% | MARK | 4 | ___ Strong, actor who sang a section of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" |
| 37% | SOFIAVERGARA | 12 | "Modern Family" actress who voices Valentina, the girlfriend of a supervillain, in "Despicable Me 4" (2 wds.) |
| 37% | APT | 3 | Like the anagramming of A DECIMAL POINT to make I'M A DOT IN PLACE |
| 36% | COSTUME | 7 | I am a type of "designer" responsible for all the iconic outfits in a film. Who am I? |
| 36% | JOHNLEGEND | 10 | "All of Me" singer who wrote a song in "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical": 2 wds. |
| 36% | PITS | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the ___?" (Erma Bombeck book) |