| 100% | MINE | 4 | "You are the best thing that's ever been ___" |
| 61% | STARTOVER | 9 | It may be the best thing to do when you're stuck |
| 57% | ROUNDABOUT | 10 | You'll find things that are __ the seven other 9+-letter answers |
| 56% | SOBAD | 5 | Eminem rap with the lyric "Guarantee I'll be the greatest thing you ever had" |
| 56% | MARSH | 5 | Where you might spot the Swamp Thing, if that were a real thing |
| 56% | BASRA | 5 | Mideast city that is the capital of the world in H. G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come" |
| 55% | TREND | 5 | Thing that’s in, for the time being |
| 55% | TACOENO | 7 | ... Looking back on it, the best part of that game was when composer Brian gave you a Tex-Mex treat. That's why we called him ___.
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| 54% | LOUCOSTELLO | 11 | "That was the best ice cream soda I ever tasted" |
| 53% | ITHURTSOBAD | 11 | Susan Tedeschi song with the lyric "You were the best man I ever had" |
| 52% | TWEETS | 6 | Social media posts like @dril's "awfully bold of you to fly the Good Year blimp on a year that has been extremely bad thus far" |
| 52% | GREATCODALMIGHTY | 16 | "This is the best fish I've ever had!" |
| 52% | CYCLING | 7 | Transportation that's good for you and the planet |
| 51% | SLOTS | 5 | Some chancy things that will get you in the right frame of mind at Reno-Tahoe International Airport |
| 51% | ZOOLANDER | 9 | Film character who asks "Did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really, really, really ridiculously good-looking?" |
| 51% | YOU | 3 | "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not ___ believe in it," quote by scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson |
| 51% | EYE | 3 | Organ that's all the better to see you with |
| 51% | DAYS | 4 | "... those were the best ___ of my life..." |
| 50% | AWAKES | 6 | Snaps out of the trance that you went into when the last thing you heard was "You are feeling sleeepy..." |
| 50% | BUILDASNOWMAN | 13 | "Do You Want to ___", catchy song from "Frozen" that is the second most best-selling Christmas/holiday single: 3 wds. |
| 50% | POLITENESSANDCIVILITY | 21 | ''__ are the best capital ever invested in business'' |
| 49% | ERA | 3 | Pitching stat that's better the lower it is: Abbr. |
| 49% | SKILLSET | 8 | Things that one is good at |
| 49% | CENTS | 5 | Things that are beside the point? |
| 49% | BIKE | 4 | Remember the first time you rode your ___ (two-wheeler) on your own without training wheels and felt like you were flying? Best. Day. Ever! |
| 49% | UNTO | 4 | "Render ___ Caesar the things that are Caesar's ..." (quote from the New Testament) |
| 49% | HANKY | 5 | Cloth item that's good for when you have the sniffles, for short |
| 49% | SONDHEIM | 8 | Composer who wrote, about crosswords, "A good clue can give you all the pleasures of being duped that a mystery story can" |
| 49% | ISTHE | 5 | "This ___ best thing you've ever done!": 2 wds. |
| 49% | WHEN | 4 | "___ You Believe," song by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston that was nominated for the Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration |