| 100% | GETAHEAD | 8 | Advance in one's career (2 wds.) |
| 100% | GOTAHEAD | 8 | Advanced in one's career (2 wds.) |
| 70% | ATHOME | 6 | In one's house: 2 wds. |
| 68% | ABEE | 4 | Have ___ in one's bonnet: 2 wds. |
| 68% | ABEE | 4 | Has ___ in one's bonnet: 2 wds. |
| 63% | LOGON | 5 | Type in one's user ID and password: 2 wds. |
| 63% | WEARA | 5 | ___ frown (show unhappiness in one's face): 2 wds. |
| 58% | NOTREAL | 7 | All in one's head, say (2 wds.) |
| 56% | ADEN | 4 | A lion may reside in one: 2 wds. |
| 55% | PROMOTIONSICKNESS | 17 | Ailment from advancing in one's job? |
| 55% | FALLSIN | 7 | Takes one's position, as in a line: 2 wds. |
| 55% | ALLTHERE | 8 | In complete possession of one's faculties: 2 wds. |
| 54% | RUNA | 4 | ___ marathon (participate in one): 2 wds. |
| 52% | NADIR | 5 | Lowest point in one's career, say |
| 52% | CLIMB | 5 | Advance one's career |
| 51% | APEX | 4 | Highest point in one's career, e.g. |
| 51% | AROW | 4 | Get one's ducks in ___ (2 wds.) |
| 51% | AROW | 4 | Got one's ducks in ___ (2 wds.) |
| 51% | SETUP | 5 | Arrange in advance: 2 wds. |
| 50% | APEX | 4 | Highest point, as in one's career |
| 50% | ONTOP | 5 | Number one in the rankings: 2 wds. |
| 50% | JAROMIRJAGR | 11 | One of only two active players in the Top 25 of the NHL's career assists leaders (2 wds.) |
| 50% | JOETHORNTON | 11 | One of only two active players in the Top 25 of the NHL's career assists leaders (2 wds.) |
| 50% | BRITTNEYGRINER | 14 | First WNBA player to dunk twice in one game: 2 wds. |
| 49% | PAULMCCARTNEY | 13 | Artist with the most number of Grammy nominations in one night without winning, with 9: 2 wds. |
| 49% | HARRYSTYLES | 11 | One Direction singer who plays Alex in 2017's "Dunkirk" (2 wds.) |
| 48% | ATBAT | 5 | Taking one's turn in the baseball lineup: 2 wds. |
| 48% | BRITNEYSPEARS | 13 | Singer of "Womanizer," which jumped 95 spots to #1 on the charts in one week in 2008: 2 wds. |
| 48% | ARCHIEANDREWS | 13 | Pal of Jughead Jones who will die in one of his many comic book titles this July: 2 wds. |
| 47% | FLORIDA | 7 | Singer of "Right Round," which jumped 57 spots to #1 on the charts in one week in 2009: 2 wds. |