| 100% | ITEM | 4 | A-Rod and J-Lo, in 2017 headlines |
| 98% | ITEM | 4 | A-Rod and J-Lo, in March 2017 headlines |
| 48% | BAR | 3 | Metal rod used in a high jump track and field event |
| 47% | HALFTIME | 8 | J.Lo and Shakira headlined the Super Bowl __ show |
| 46% | FISHES | 6 | Uses a rod and reel |
| 46% | FISH | 4 | Use a rod and reel |
| 46% | THOR | 4 | Film franchise featuring a hammer-wielding superhero with sequels in 2013, 2017, and 2022 |
| 46% | ELLORY | 6 | R J —, author of novels City of Lies and A Quiet Belief in Angels |
| 45% | FISHES | 6 | Uses a rod and reel, say |
| 45% | FISHINGTACKLE | 13 | Footballer with a rod and reel? |
| 45% | ANGLER | 6 | One with a rod and reel |
| 45% | SAMURAIJACK | 11 | Sword-wielding title character in a 2001-2004 and 2017 Cartoon Network series: 2 wds. |
| 45% | ROUGHNIGHT | 10 | A 2017 dark comedy film in which Scarlett Johansson stars alongside Zoe Kravitz and Kate McKinnon: 2 wds. |
| 45% | LOGANLUCKY | 10 | A 2017 heist comedy film in which Seth MacFarlane stars alongside Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig: 2 wds. |
| 45% | FISHINGNET | 10 | Brooklyn hoopster using a rod and reel? |
| 45% | WHERES | 6 | "___ the Money?" 2017 comedy starring King Bach and Kat Graham, with a question in the title |
| 44% | AROD | 4 | Half of a celebrity couple with J.Lo starting in 2017 |
| 44% | DREWDOUGHTY | 11 | Los Angeles Kings defenseman who won a Stanley Cup championship and an Olympic gold medal in 2014: 2 wds. |
| 44% | CARA | 4 | ___ Delevingne, who starred in the 2017 space opera film "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" |
| 43% | UMIAMI | 6 | Where Reince Priebus, White House Chief of Staff in 2017, graduated with a J.D. degree cum laude in 1998, for short |
| 43% | ICEFISH | 7 | Use a rod and reel on a frozen lake |
| 43% | FISH | 4 | Try to catch something with a rod and reel |
| 42% | NED | 3 | Rod and Todd's dad, in TV cartoondom |
| 42% | ROOST | 5 | Rod in a henhouse |
| 42% | SPIT | 4 | Rod in a grill |
| 42% | SPIT | 4 | Rod in a rotisserie |
| 42% | AXIS | 4 | Rod in a globe |
| 42% | SALE | 4 | Headline in a circular |
| 42% | BLADERUNNER | 11 | 1982 science fiction film set in a dystopian future Los Angeles and about synthetic humans known as replicants: 2 wds. |
| 42% | CLINTDEMPSEY | 12 | Soccer player who achieved a hat trick for the US Men's National Team in 2015 and 2017: 2 wds. |