| 100% | WINE | 4 | “Bring me ___” (opening words of Emerson’s “Bacchus”) |
| 57% | TWAS | 4 | Opening word of "Jabberwocky" |
| 57% | DEAR | 4 | Opening word of grandma's letter or what she may call you endearingly |
| 56% | IMA | 3 | Opening words of "Travelin' Man" |
| 56% | DEARGOD | 7 | Opening words of a prayer |
| 56% | DEAR | 4 | Opening word of many letters |
| 54% | CARA | 4 | Opening word of many an Italian letter |
| 54% | ISNT | 4 | Opening word of "Send in the Clowns" |
| 54% | ITWAS | 5 | Opening words of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 53% | IAMSAM | 6 | Opening words of "Green Eggs and Ham" (3 wds.) |
| 52% | TRYTO | 5 | Opening words of the Beatles' "We Can Work It Out" |
| 51% | OSAY | 4 | Opening words of a poem originally titled “Defence of Fort McHenry” |
| 49% | UPON | 4 | Second word of fairy tale openings |
| 48% | DESIRE | 6 | Bring me my arrows of __, Jerusalem by Blake |
| 46% | HAS | 3 | Third-to-last word of the "Star Trek" opening speech |
| 45% | ALIBABA | 7 | Deliverer of opening words? |
| 45% | EATA | 4 | "Do I dare to ___ peach?" (words of T. S. Eliot): 2 wds. |
| 45% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Final words of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 45% | FAR | 3 | Word repeated in the openings of "Star Wars" movies |
| 45% | BOOK | 4 | Word that follows "Play" to mean Barney's collection of pickup ideas in "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 44% | AMEN | 4 | Word repeated before the chorus of Hozier's hit "Take Me to Church" |
| 44% | HAPPY | 5 | "___ Song," 2015 hit by the band Bring Me the Horizon that spells out the word "S-P-I-R-I-T" |
| 44% | AGO | 3 | "It was twenty years ___ today" (opening words of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" |
| 43% | LINES | 5 | Words of an actor’s part |
| 43% | RELATE | 6 | "I can __": words of empathy |
| 43% | FREEATLAST | 10 | Final words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 43% | FAR | 3 | Word repeated in the openings of all the "Star Wars" movies |
| 43% | ACTOR | 5 | Word that's an apt anagram of CO-STAR minus S |
| 43% | SKIPTOMYLOU/X | 13 | [*cross out* Children's song] Ignore the rest of the lunch I brought and just eat the fish? |
| 43% | ARMA | 4 | “___ virumque cano” (opening words of the Aeneid) |