| 100% | FALL | 4 | "Things ___ apart; the center cannot hold" (Yeats' words) |
| 46% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” |
| 41% | STAPLE | 6 | Thing in the center of a centerfold |
| 39% | EASELS | 6 | Things holding up the works? |
| 39% | CONCHES | 7 | Things held up to the ear |
| 39% | UGHS | 4 | Words said while holding the nose |
| 39% | SYNS | 4 | Words meaning the same thing (Abbr.) |
| 39% | THIS | 4 | The thing I'm holding up |
| 37% | IDID | 4 | "___ the right thing!" (defensive words): 2 wds. |
| 37% | LAS | 3 | Things sung when you don't know the words |
| 36% | BRIDLETHREATS | 13 | *Warning words from one holding the reins? |
| 36% | JINX | 4 | Word spoken after two people say the same thing simultaneously |
| 36% | DAD | 3 | Word that means the same thing as "Pa" or "Pops" |
| 36% | MUM | 3 | It's the word when keeping things quiet |
| 36% | SYNONYMS | 8 | Two different words that mean the same thing |
| 35% | MAILBOX | 7 | Word that means the same thing even with several letters added? |
| 35% | IBET | 4 | "___ you cannot complete the task" (challenge words): 2 wds. |
| 35% | GASBUBBLES | 10 | What the circles represent, given the words they hold |
| 35% | FREE | 4 | Word in the center square of a bingo card |
| 35% | ICE | 3 | Word in the center of all three long entries |
| 35% | HOPE | 4 | Word at the center of Rhode Island's flag |
| 35% | SPACER | 6 | Gizmo that holds things apart |
| 34% | IBET | 4 | "___ you cannot finish the whole pie!" (challenge words): 2 wds. |
| 34% | DOORS | 5 | Things that shouldn’t be held on the subway |
| 34% | YEA | 3 | Word that means the same thing, and has the same letters as, "aye" |
| 33% | LUCY | 4 | Girl who cannot be trusted to hold the football for Charlie Brown |
| 33% | UNSEE | 5 | "I cannot ___ the things that I saw that night" (erase memory, informally) |
| 33% | YEATS | 5 | Poet whose work inspired the title of Achebe's Things Fall Apart |
| 33% | AWARD | 5 | One of the things Billie Eilish recently picked up at Staples Center |
| 32% | TRUTH | 5 | "Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the ___": Buddha |