| 100% | THEM | 4 | "Why did the nonbinary prospector move West in 1849? Because there's gold in ___/their hills!" |
| 29% | THAR | 4 | "There's gold in them ___ hills!" |
| 29% | THEM | 4 | "There's gold in ___ thar hills" |
| 29% | THAR | 4 | “There’s gold in them — hills!” |
| 28% | FUNGI | 5 | Q: Why did the mushroom get invited to the party? A: Because he's a ___ |
| 28% | POLLOQUESTION | 13 | Why did the chicken cross the road?, e.g., in Tijuana? |
| 27% | ORE | 3 | The gold in them thar hills, say |
| 26% | APPLETURNOVER | 13 | "I don't really know the employees in the tech store anymore because there's been a lot of ___" |
| 26% | NINERS | 6 | Forty-__, seekers of gold in the American West |
| 26% | LENDERS | 7 | There's interest in their line of work |
| 26% | ANITA | 5 | Hill who wrote “There is no way to redo 1991, but there are ways to do better,” in a Times essay on the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings |
| 26% | ADLIB | 5 | What the Marx Brothers often do in their films |
| 25% | CLASS | 5 | *Why did the firework get in trouble at school? "Because it kept going off in ___!" |
| 25% | WREKIN | 6 | The —, isolated hill in Shropshire west of Telford |
| 25% | SAND | 4 | There's lots in the desert |
| 25% | PLANES | 6 | They do their banking on the move |
| 25% | SETS | 4 | What the sun does in the west |
| 25% | MESA | 4 | Large, flat-topped hill in the west |
| 24% | COLORS | 6 | *How did the fireworks do in their exams? "They passed with flying ___!" |
| 24% | TRADINGPOST | 11 | Place to do business in the Old West |
| 24% | ASSAY | 5 | Activity done often in the Klondike Gold Rush |
| 24% | END | 3 | Did you know, ABBA's music adaptation "Mamma Mia!" is still in the top-ten longest running productions on the West ___? |
| 24% | DOUGH | 5 | "Why did the baker apply for a job? Because she kneaded ___!" |
| 23% | GLEN | 4 | It's hidden in the hills |
| 23% | SYSTEM | 6 | The S in "DOS" |
| 23% | PINK | 4 | ___ Hill, town in North Carolina named after the flowers that bloom there |
| 23% | USURERS | 7 | There's a lot of interest in their work |
| 23% | IGUESSM | 7 | Q: ___ / A: There's one in the fifth square |
| 23% | HACK | 4 | "Why did the computer programmer quit the job? Because he couldn't ___ it!" |
| 23% | MINERAL | 7 | Small village in Bureau Co., IL, apparently named because while there's lots of coal, the commodity it was named after is absent |