| 100% | DING | 4 | __, dong, the witch is dead! |
| 97% | DING | 4 | "___-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" |
| 90% | DING | 4 | "___-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" ("The Wizard of Oz" song) |
| 77% | DINGDONG | 8 | "___! The Witch Is Dead" (song from "The Wizard of Oz"): Hyph. |
| 61% | ARLEN | 5 | Harold, the composer who came up with "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" |
| 58% | THESMITHS | 9 | The Queen Is Dead band |
| 54% | ZOMBIES | 7 | They are the "walking dead" |
| 53% | OVEN | 4 | The witch in "Hansel and Gretel" was pushed into one |
| 53% | LAKE | 4 | The Dead Sea is one, technically |
| 52% | SPOILERALERT | 12 | Comment before "He was dead the whole time," hopefully |
| 51% | ZOMBIES | 7 | The Walking Dead is overrun with these creatures |
| 51% | QUMRAN | 6 | Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the __ caves |
| 50% | SNORE | 5 | Sound that will "wake the dead" |
| 50% | FANTHEORY | 9 | "Rue from Euphoria has been dead the whole time," for example |
| 50% | SPOILERALERT | 12 | Comment before "He was dead the whole time," hopefully |
| 50% | ISRAEL | 6 | The Dead Sea is bordered by __ to the southwest |
| 50% | GRATEFUL | 8 | The __ Dead; band whose fans are called Deadheads |
| 49% | LINDSAY | 7 | Jeff —, author of novels Dexter is Dead and Dexter in the Dark |
| 49% | REBECCA | 7 | Alfred Hitchcock film whose title character is dead before the story begins |
| 49% | LAKE | 4 | What the Dead Sea is (despite its name) |
| 48% | CECA | 4 | Dead-ends in human intestines that are joined to the appendix |
| 48% | CREMATED | 8 | In Hinduism, the dead are not buried, but this |
| 47% | CREATURE | 8 | A Ghoul is a __ who eats children and the dead |
| 46% | NOLAUGHINGMATHER | 16 | What the giggling supporter of the Salem witch trials was told? |
| 45% | SEA | 3 | In the world, there is a Red one and a Dead one |
| 45% | ROSS | 4 | Edgar ___, federal agent who is the main antagonist in "Red Dead Redemption" |
| 45% | SPAMALOT | 8 | Tony-winning musical that includes the song "He Is Not Dead Yet" |
| 45% | EAST | 4 | Where the Oz witch whom Dorothy's house landed on was from |
| 44% | RAD | 3 | What the Dead Kennedys and Minor Threat were to skateboarders in the '80s |
| 44% | ZOMBIE | 6 | Mythological undead creature that was featured in the TV series "The Walking Dead" |