| 100% | FAME | 4 | 15 minutes of ___ (short-lived renown) |
| 78% | FAME | 4 | 15 minutes of ___ (short-lived popularity) |
| 57% | AREUP | 5 | "Your 15 minutes of fame ___!" |
| 56% | SHORTCIRCUS | 11 | 15 minutes of tightrope walking and animal acts? |
| 55% | QTR | 3 | 15 minutes of an N.F.L. game: Abbr. |
| 52% | ADS | 3 | 15+ minutes of a typical TV hour |
| 49% | OBITS | 5 | Celebrations of lives, for short |
| 48% | BIO | 3 | Study of living organisms, for short |
| 47% | BIOS | 4 | Stories of people's lives, for short |
| 47% | SECS | 4 | Bits of minutes, for short |
| 47% | SECS | 4 | Segments of minutes, for short |
| 47% | BIOS | 4 | Descriptions of peoples' lives, for short |
| 47% | EPHEMERA | 8 | Items of short-lived use |
| 46% | SEC | 3 | One minute has sixty of these, for short |
| 46% | SEC | 3 | What a minute has 60 of, for short |
| 46% | BIOS | 4 | Tales of famous people's lives, for short |
| 46% | 15MINUTES | 9 | Figurative duration of short-lived fame |
| 45% | BIO | 3 | Branch of science dealing with living things, for short |
| 45% | BRIEFREDHOTPASTAIRED | 20 | History of short-lived indiscretion made public? |
| 45% | SEC | 3 | Fraction of a minute, for short |
| 45% | SECS | 4 | Parts of a minute, for short |
| 45% | SECS | 4 | Sixtieths of a minute, for short |
| 45% | SEC | 3 | Part of a minute, for short |
| 45% | SEC | 3 | Unit of a minute, for short |
| 45% | STAMPTAX | 8 | Short-lived levy of 1765 |
| 44% | ANNEHATHAWAY | 12 | "Les Misérables" actress who won an Oscar for her performance, despite only 15 minutes of screen time: 2 wds. |
| 44% | OSCARDELAHOYA | 13 | Recipient of the Award for Best Live Action Short, maybe? |
| 44% | OUR | 3 | "Days of ___ Lives" (soap opera with almost 15,000 episodes) |
| 44% | ENOS | 4 | Short-lived TV spinoff of 1980 |
| 44% | SSRS | 4 | Historical group of 15, for short |