| 100% | ORNO | 4 | "Yes ___?" ("What's it going to be?"): 2 wds. |
| 60% | NOONE | 5 | "___ knows what it's like, to be a bad man": 2 wds |
| 57% | SUEME | 5 | "What are you going to do, make a federal case out of it?": 2 wds. |
| 55% | ANO | 3 | "I went to the event, but he was ___-show": 2 wds. |
| 55% | WESAY | 5 | "It doesn't matter what ___, he's going to do it if he wants to": 2 wds. |
| 55% | KYRIEIRVING | 11 | Point guard who asked to be traded (and is going to the Celtics) to escape 21-Across's shadow: 2 wds. |
| 53% | ASI | 3 | "___ was going to St. Ives ..." (nursery rhyme): 2 wds. |
| 53% | ALOT | 4 | "It leaves ___ to be desired": 2 wds. |
| 53% | THECARPENTERS | 13 | Band that performed Carole King's "It's Going to Take Some Time": 2 wds. |
| 52% | TVSETS | 6 | What DVRs are connected to: 2 wds. |
| 52% | CAROLYNHAX | 10 | Advice guru whose self-titled column used to be called "Tell Me About It": 2 wds. |
| 51% | AMI | 3 | "What ___ going to do now?": 2 wds. |
| 51% | AMI | 3 | "What ___ ever going to do without you?": 2 wds. |
| 51% | AMI | 3 | "What ___ going to do without you?": 2 wds. |
| 51% | AMI | 3 | "What ___ going to do with you?": 2 wds. |
| 50% | TURNSIN | 7 | Goes to bed: 2 wds. |
| 50% | IPOD | 4 | Let's go to the 2000s! What will you see here? You may see this Apple music device everywhere after its launch in 2001 |
| 50% | BIGTOE | 6 | It's wiggled while saying "This little piggy went to market": 2 wds. |
| 50% | ALAW | 4 | "There ought to be ___!": 2 wds. |
| 50% | ENDUP | 5 | Turn out to be: 2 wds. |
| 49% | YESORNO | 7 | "Which is it going to be?" |
| 48% | JODIEFOSTER | 11 | Actress whose character went to outer space in 1997's "Contact": 2 wds. |
| 48% | SANDRABULLOCK | 13 | Actress whose character went to outer space in 2013's "Gravity": 2 wds. |
| 48% | NOOMIRAPACE | 11 | Actress whose character went to outer space in 2012's "Prometheus": 2 wds. |
| 48% | ONEI | 4 | REM's 1987 hit "The ___ Love" (commonly thought to be a love song though it's about using people): 2 wds. |
| 48% | NORM | 4 | It's what's to be expected |
| 48% | NATURE | 6 | It's "loved by what is best in us," according to Emerson |
| 47% | FAT | 3 | "It's going to be a big ___ wedding." |
| 47% | ITSME | 5 | General reply to "Who is it?": 2 wds. |
| 47% | ONESELF | 7 | What it's usually best to be |