| 100% | WAR | 3 | "What happens when language fails," per Margaret Atwood |
| 100% | WAR | 3 | What happens when language fails, per Margaret Atwood |
| 83% | WAR | 3 | “___ is what happens when language fails”: Margaret Atwood |
| 38% | TIMEFLIES | 9 | What happens when having fun |
| 37% | THEJOEWASONME | 13 | What happened when I spilled coffee? |
| 37% | TIMEFLIES | 9 | What happens when you're having fun? |
| 36% | DIVORCE | 7 | What happens when a marriage has to end |
| 35% | ROYALSDOAFLIP | 13 | What happens when Kansas City wins a World Series? |
| 35% | SYNC | 4 | What happens when an iPad connects to a computer |
| 35% | ECHO | 4 | What happens when your voice reflects against a wall |
| 35% | WALLEYESWEREUPONUS | 18 | What happened when we aroused a pike's pique? |
| 35% | CULTURE | 7 | __ clash, what happens when East meets West |
| 35% | PHONETAG | 8 | What happens when two people miss each other a lot? |
| 34% | ECHO | 4 | What happens when your voice bounces off a wall or mountain |
| 34% | SEE | 3 | "This is what happens when you don't listen!" |
| 34% | IBEAM | 5 | Construction piece that describes what happens when you compliment me? |
| 33% | MELTED | 6 | What happened to Elphaba when water touched her |
| 33% | SMOG | 4 | Q: What happens when the ___ clears over Los Angeles? A: UCLA! |
| 32% | SHECANTHOLD | 11 | With 25-Across, what happens when a basket maker drinks too much? |
| 32% | TEAR | 4 | What you shed when 34a happens |
| 32% | SKED | 4 | What's happening and when, informally |
| 31% | YODAGRITTED | 11 | What happened that time when a Jedi made noise with his teeth? |
| 30% | LIFE | 4 | What happens to you while you're busy making other plans, per "Beautiful Boy" |
| 30% | OHNO | 4 | What you would say when something bad happens: 2 wds. |
| 29% | ALPS | 4 | "Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the ___" (censored The Big Lebowski quote) |
| 28% | PROPOSAL | 8 | What's happening when someone asks "Will you marry me?" |
| 28% | EVIL | 4 | What "begins when you begin to treat people as things," per Terry Pratchett |
| 28% | PILLOWTALK | 10 | "What happened when you sat on that whoopee cushion, Tarzan?" |
| 27% | DAM | 3 | What the fish said when it swam into a concrete wall, per an old joke |
| 26% | COURSEOFEVENTS | 14 | What happened |