| 100% | SLAP | 4 | A ___ in the face (an affront) |
| 73% | SLAP | 4 | "That was a ___ in the face" (an insult) |
| 71% | SONOFMAN | 8 | Magritte work in which a face is obscured by an apple, with The |
| 70% | SLAP | 4 | A ___ in the face |
| 69% | CLOSEDRANKS | 11 | United in the face of a challenge |
| 68% | PIE | 3 | Smack in the face with a certain dessert |
| 67% | DEFIED | 6 | Flew completely in the face of, in a way |
| 67% | MAKEITMAKESENSE | 15 | Rhetorical plea in the face of a dissonant reality |
| 66% | DAYTODAY | 8 | How one lives in the face of an inscrutable future |
| 66% | SLAP | 4 | Like a ___ in the face (insulting) |
| 66% | ENVEIL | 6 | Cover the face, in a way |
| 65% | COCONUTCREAMPIE | 15 | Object one might take in the face in a slapstick comedy |
| 65% | BEARUP | 6 | Laugh in the face of being strangled by a gorilla, maybe |
| 63% | SNOOKI | 6 | Jersey Shore star who was punched in the face by a gym teacher |
| 63% | EXTRA | 5 | A face in the crowd? |
| 62% | NOSE | 4 | Part of the face that's prominent in a profile |
| 62% | PROFILE | 7 | In art, the side view of a face |
| 61% | STAGE | 5 | What the seats in a theater face |
| 61% | ACE | 3 | Card with an A in the corner |
| 60% | MINUET | 6 | It's done in the form of an S or a Z |
| 60% | CONTOUR | 7 | The line around a specific shape in an art piece |
| 60% | ANATOMIST | 9 | An expert in the human body; a dissector |
| 60% | FOX | 3 | "___ in the henhouse," phrase for an untrustworthy person with a "sly" animal in it |
| 60% | SNAKE | 5 | "___ in the grass," phrase for an unfaithful friend with a hissing reptile in it |
| 59% | VENTRICLE | 9 | A cavity in an organ; the heart has two of them |
| 59% | METS | 4 | Team that the Yankees face in a Subway Series |
| 58% | PIE | 3 | A clown might get it in the face |
| 58% | ACE | 3 | Playing card with an A in the corner |
| 58% | SERGEANT | 8 | Rank in the British police force senior to a constable and junior to an inspector |
| 58% | DESPITE | 7 | In the face of |