| 100% | GRAVEYARD | 9 | A shift that starts at midnight |
| 60% | GRAVEYARD | 9 | Work shift that starts around midnight |
| 55% | GMA | 3 | ABC show that starts at 7 a.m. daily: Abbr. |
| 51% | RAVEN | 5 | Poe poem that starts "Once upon a midnight dreary," with "The" |
| 47% | ANTE | 4 | Money that's put in at the start of a poker hand |
| 47% | GARLIC | 6 | ___ bread, appetizer that might be ordered at the start of a meal |
| 46% | ASPS | 4 | Menaces that name other menaces if you put a "w" at the start |
| 45% | OHIO | 4 | River that starts at Pittsburgh |
| 45% | LUTE | 4 | Instrument that becomes a different instrument when an "f" is added at the start |
| 45% | ANNIE | 5 | Musical that starts at an orphanage |
| 45% | ACNE | 4 | Skin breakout that starts at adolescence |
| 44% | IGNITE | 6 | Start at a campsite |
| 44% | NILE | 4 | African river that starts at Lake Victoria |
| 44% | ARM | 3 | Body part that starts at the shoulder |
| 44% | LOGON | 5 | Start at a terminal, say |
| 43% | UNAKA | 5 | Southern range that starts at the Nolichucky River |
| 43% | ERIE | 4 | Canal that starts at New York's Hudson River |
| 42% | WHYS | 4 | Common words at the start of a lot of sentences that my four year old comes out with |
| 42% | CATALYST | 8 | Trigger that starts a reaction |
| 42% | WWW | 3 | Letters that start a URL |
| 42% | SNL | 3 | Show that starts at 11:29:30 p.m. ET |
| 41% | POOL | 4 | Game that starts with a break |
| 41% | PREAMBLE | 8 | Introductory statement that starts a book |
| 41% | KICKOFF | 7 | Play that starts a football game |
| 41% | INITIATOR | 9 | Substance that starts a chain reaction |
| 41% | ANTE | 4 | Poker chip that starts a pot |
| 41% | CAROL | 5 | Dickens' novel that starts A Christmas |
| 41% | ABC | 3 | Letters that start a kindergarten tune |
| 41% | THEFEMININEMYSTIQUE | 19 | 1963 book that started a movement |
| 41% | LENIN | 5 | Name that starts a well-known "ism" |