| 100% | KNIFED | 6 | __ in the back, is to be traitorously betrayed |
| 60% | HAPPILYEVERAFT | 14 | Always glad to be seated in the back of the boat? |
| 57% | TAGLINE | 7 | "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water," e.g. |
| 57% | STAB | 4 | __ in the back: betray |
| 57% | STAB | 4 | __ in the back; betray |
| 55% | BORNYESTERDAY | 13 | In the negative, unlikely to be fooled |
| 54% | SNEEZED | 7 | What Fred Ott did in the first movie to be copyrighted |
| 54% | DOLDRUMS | 8 | In low spirit, to be in the __ |
| 54% | OWE | 3 | Be in the hole, so to speak |
| 54% | UPFOR | 5 | In the running to be |
| 53% | THATCHER | 8 | The only person to be UK PM in the 1980s |
| 53% | FRONTYARD | 9 | Lawn area that is not in the back |
| 53% | OUTRANK | 7 | Be superior to, in the military |
| 52% | RETINAL | 7 | Related to nerves in the back of the eye |
| 52% | PAST | 4 | Where Marty is trapped in "Back to the Future" |
| 52% | ALLERGY | 7 | Sneezing in the spring is from an __ to pollen |
| 52% | DRESSED | 7 | In the morning, kids are told to go get __ |
| 52% | MOTHER | 6 | In the Bible, how Eve was related to Cain |
| 52% | OLDSTYLE | 8 | In the way it used to be |
| 52% | OUTRANK | 7 | Be superior to, as in the military |
| 52% | UNO | 3 | Game in which the object is to score 500 points |
| 51% | WERE | 4 | Used to be, in the plural |
| 51% | UNO | 3 | Game in which the object is to be the first player to score 500 points |
| 51% | SYCAMINE | 8 | Tree mentioned in Luke 17:6 in the Bible thought to be the black mulberry |
| 51% | TAYLORSWIFT | 11 | Only person in the arts ever to be named Time's Person of the Year |
| 51% | BIFF | 4 | ___ Tannen, businessman who is the antagonist in "Back to the Future" |
| 51% | CLOSETOYOU | 10 | Where the Carpenters "long to be" in a 1970 #1 hit |
| 51% | DARTS | 5 | Game in which the object is to end with zero points |
| 51% | SEDATED | 7 | What the Ramones wanted to be in a 1978 hit song |
| 51% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |