| 100% | CURIOSITY | 9 | According to the proverb, it killed the cat |
| 65% | CURIOSITY | 9 | It's said to have killed the cat |
| 59% | ASTHEYSAY | 9 | According to the proverb |
| 59% | CURIOSITY | 9 | It killed the cat |
| 57% | CURIOSITY | 9 | Proverbially, it killed the cat |
| 53% | FARE | 4 | It's figured according to the 14-Down |
| 53% | IRAN | 4 | It's a "theocratic republic," according to the CIA |
| 52% | LOOSELIPS | 9 | They sink ships, according to the war proverb |
| 51% | END | 3 | It justifies the means, according to some |
| 51% | AVERAGEAGE | 10 | According to the U.S. Census Bureau, it's 63 for retirement |
| 51% | SPARROW | 7 | Bird that killed Cock Robin, according to the nursery rhyme |
| 51% | LEOPARD | 7 | According to Isaiah, it "shall lie down with the kid" |
| 50% | MALICE | 6 | It may distort the truth, according to Churchill |
| 50% | EYES | 4 | The windows to the soul, according to a proverb |
| 50% | APPLEADAY | 9 | It keeps the doctor away, according to the saying |
| 50% | PEN | 3 | It is mightier than the sword, according to some |
| 49% | NINELIVES | 9 | Cat's blessing, according to an old proverb: 2 wds. |
| 49% | PARANOIA | 8 | It's "knowing all the facts," according to Woody Allen |
| 49% | ORANGE | 6 | It is the New Black, according to a Netflix drama |
| 48% | APR | 3 | It is the cruelest month according to T.S. Eliot, for short |
| 47% | ART | 3 | It "should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable," according to a saying |
| 47% | WAR | 3 | "Only the dead" have seen its end, according to George Santayana |
| 47% | TREES | 5 | According to the poet's oldest son, it was written "by a window looking down a wooded hill" |
| 46% | CAESARSALAD | 11 | Entree meant to be eaten with the fingers, according to its creator |
| 46% | ISRAEL | 6 | Country that, according to its tourist bureau, has the highest number of museums per capita |
| 45% | NOONE | 5 | Who "knows what it's like to be the bad man," according to a 1971 hit by the Who |
| 44% | OFFICIALLY | 10 | According to the authorities |
| 44% | PURPORTEDLY | 11 | According to the grapevine |
| 44% | ONAUTO | 6 | According to the program? |
| 43% | ALLYOUNEED | 10 | ... according to the Beatles |