| 100% | INA | 3 | "There was an old woman who lived ___ shoe": 2 wds. |
| 88% | ASHOE | 5 | "There was an old woman who lived in ___": 2 wds. |
| 88% | ASHOE | 5 | "There was an old woman who lived in ___ ...": 2 wds. |
| 69% | SHOE | 4 | "There was an old woman who lived in a ___ ..." |
| 66% | ANOLD | 5 | "There was ___ woman who lived in a shoe": 2 wds. |
| 64% | WAS | 3 | "There ___ an old woman who lived in a shoe ..." |
| 61% | ASHOE | 5 | "... old woman who lived in ___": 2 wds. |
| 45% | LADY | 4 | "There was an old ___ who swallowed a fly ... " |
| 44% | INASHOE | 7 | Where an old woman with too many children lived, according to the nursery rhyme: 3 wds. |
| 43% | YESMAAM | 7 | Polite response to an older woman (2 wds.) |
| 43% | ASHOE | 5 | "... old woman who lived in ___" |
| 43% | GLORIASTUART | 12 | "The Invisible Man" and "Titanic" actress who lived to be 100: 2 wds. |
| 43% | KIRKDOUGLAS | 11 | "Lust for Life" and "Spartacus" actor who lived to be 103: 2 wds. |
| 42% | GEORGEBURNS | 11 | "Oh, God!" and "The Sunshine Boys" actor who lived to be 100: 2 wds. |
| 41% | ITSTARTSWITHUS | 14 | 2022 bestseller by 41-Across about a woman who reconnects with an old flame (4 wds.) |
| 41% | LEAR | 4 | He wrote "There was an old man of Thermopylae / Who never did anything properly ..." |
| 41% | MARAWILSON | 10 | "Matilda" star who voices The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home, a character on 15-/51-Across: 2 wds. |
| 40% | MOLLYSGAME | 10 | 2017 crime drama in which Jessica Chastain played a woman who runs an underground poker empire: 2 wds. |
| 40% | JAMESCAMERON | 12 | "Avatar" director who is an atheist: 2 wds. |
| 40% | FIREFLYLANE | 11 | Netflix series about two women who are longtime best friends, based on the Kristin Hannah novel: 2 wds. |
| 40% | ELEANORRIGBY | 12 | Beatles song about a woman who "lives in a dream": 2 wds. |
| 40% | HELENHAYES | 10 | First (and oldest) woman to achieve an EGOT (2 wds.) |
| 39% | BEFORESUNRISE | 13 | 1995 Ethan Hawke starrer romantic drama film about a man and woman who spend an evening in Vienna: 2 wds. |
| 39% | INASHOE | 7 | Where an old woman of rhyme lived |
| 39% | BETTYWHITE | 10 | "Golden Girls" actress who was the oldest person to host "Saturday Night Live" (2 wds.) |
| 39% | INASHOE | 7 | Where an old woman of nursery rhyme lived |
| 38% | NOMAN | 5 | "___ is an island": 2 wds. |
| 38% | KEITHURBAN | 10 | Country singer who was an "American Idol" judge for four seasons: 2 wds. |
| 38% | SHOE | 4 | Where an old woman lived, in a nursery rhyme |
| 38% | CANDICEBERGEN | 13 | Actress who was the first woman to host "Saturday Night Live," and the first woman to host five times (2 wds.) |