| 100% | WINSOMELOSESOME | 15 | "Things don't always go the way you want" |
| 49% | UBER | 4 | ''Move the Way You Want'' sloganeer |
| 49% | HOSTAGE | 7 | Way you probably don't want to be held |
| 47% | FRISKS | 6 | What the TSA does if you don't want to go through the full body scan machine |
| 47% | LET | 3 | "I don't want to ___ you go." |
| 47% | SSE | 3 | The way you're going, perhaps: abbr. |
| 47% | ORELSE | 6 | Threatening phrase ender, when things aren't going the way your rival wants |
| 47% | STYLE | 5 | The way you do the things you do |
| 46% | ANKLE | 5 | Thing you don't want to twist |
| 46% | TRAFFIC | 7 | The way things go? |
| 46% | TREND | 5 | The way things go |
| 46% | IDEA | 4 | "I don't want you to get the wrong ___ ..." |
| 46% | IDEA | 4 | "I don't want you to get the wrong ___" |
| 46% | TREND | 5 | The way things are going |
| 45% | ROW | 3 | You don't want to be in the last one |
| 45% | PTS | 3 | Things you don't want on your license: Abbr. |
| 45% | ANY | 3 | "___ Way You Want It" (Journey song on the "Caddyshack" soundtrack) |
| 45% | WEED | 4 | Something you don't want in the bed |
| 44% | POLITICSASUSUAL | 15 | The way things generally go in Washington |
| 44% | LAS | 3 | Things sung when you don't know the words |
| 43% | INTHISECONOMY | 13 | "... with the way things are currently going?!" |
| 43% | LEAGUE | 6 | Band that sang Don't You Want Me: The Human __ |
| 43% | TETRIS | 6 | Game where you don't want to reach the top |
| 43% | STRANGER | 8 | A person you don't know; __ Things the TV series |
| 42% | TREND | 5 | The general way things are going |
| 42% | GRAMMARPO | 9 | Ones who don't want to hear that you're laying down on the job? |
| 42% | UEY | 3 | What you can hang if you want to go back the other way |
| 42% | ETC | 3 | Used when you don't want to name too many things |
| 42% | SADEYES | 7 | 1979 #1 song with the lyric "Turn the other way / I don't want to see you cry" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | HUMAN | 5 | "Don't You Want Me" synth-pop band The ___ League |