| 100% | DEFICIT | 7 | Amount of money that is short of the needed total |
| 59% | DEBT | 4 | Amount of money that needs to be paid back |
| 51% | ANTE | 4 | Amount of money that can be raised? |
| 49% | HANDFUL | 7 | The amount of something that can be held |
| 48% | HUNGRIEST | 9 | The one that is the most in need of food |
| 47% | BANDWIDTH | 9 | The amount of data that can be moved on a network |
| 45% | RAINFALL | 8 | Amount of water from the sky that can be measured |
| 45% | CLE | 3 | Ohio city that is home to the Browns of the NFL, for short |
| 45% | DECK | 4 | "___ the Halls," song by Nat King Cole that is one of the shortest songs to enter the Billboard charts |
| 45% | PETE | 4 | "___ Davidson," 2018 song by Ariana Grande that is one of the shortest songs to enter the Billboard charts |
| 45% | BEAUTIFUL | 9 | "___ Trip," 2020 song by Kid Cudi that is one of the shortest songs to enter the Billboard charts |
| 44% | BOXES | 5 | "Little ___," 1964 song covered by The Womenfolk that is one of the shortest songs to enter the Billboard charts |
| 44% | APPLE | 5 | "Pen-Pineapple-___Pen," 2016 song by Pikotaro that is one of the shortest songs to enter the Billboard charts |
| 44% | FORWARD | 7 | 2016 song by Beyonce and James Blake that is one of the shortest songs to enter the Billboard charts |
| 44% | STAY | 4 | 1960 song by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs that is one of the shortest songs to enter the Billboard charts |
| 43% | TOWNROAD | 8 | "Old ___," 2019 song by Lil Nas X that is one of the shortest songs to enter the Billboard charts: 2 wds. |
| 43% | DEBT | 4 | Amount of money to be repaid |
| 43% | DRIB | 4 | Tiny amount Feathered flier that needs to be "early" to "catch the worm" |
| 43% | NAT | 3 | Member of the baseball team that used to be the Expos, for short |
| 43% | PRON | 4 | Part of the speech that is a substitute for a noun, for short |
| 43% | BEAR | 4 | "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy ___," 1957 song by Elvis Presley that is one of the shortest songs to enter the Billboard charts |
| 43% | THROWAWAY | 9 | Kind of society that is careless of the environment |
| 42% | MLK | 3 | Writer of the quote "Any law that uplifts human personality is just," for short |
| 42% | EXCESS | 6 | Amount of something that is more than necessary |
| 42% | CMS | 3 | Small measurements that are used both north and south of the US borders, for short |
| 42% | OWE | 3 | Be short of money |
| 41% | BUDGET | 6 | Amount of money to be spent on one area |
| 41% | PETS | 4 | Animals that are part of the family |
| 41% | POLE | 4 | "The Captain of the ___-Star," short story by Arthur Conan Doyle that was published in the Temple Bar |
| 41% | PRICEELS | 8 | General amount of money that something sells for |