| 100% | USEON | 5 | Apply to, as a liniment |
| 82% | USEON | 5 | Apply to as a treatment, say |
| 77% | USEON | 5 | Apply to, as a balm: 2 wds. |
| 67% | BASTE | 5 | Apply juice to, as a turkey |
| 67% | TARS | 4 | Applies goo to, as a roof |
| 67% | PAVES | 5 | Applies blacktop to, as a road |
| 66% | RUBIN | 5 | Apply to the skin, as on a mixed-up U.C.L.A. athlete? |
| 64% | ICES | 4 | Applies frozen water to, as a sprain |
| 61% | DAUB | 4 | Apply, as ink to cover a number on a Bingo card |
| 61% | ICES | 4 | Applies a frozen pack to, as a sprain |
| 60% | ICES | 4 | Applies a frozen pack to, as someone with an ankle sprain might |
| 60% | ICES | 4 | Applies a cold pack to, as a sprained ankle |
| 60% | USEON | 5 | Apply to, as an ointment |
| 60% | USEON | 5 | Apply to, as the skin |
| 59% | USESON | 6 | Applies to, as an ointment |
| 58% | HONE | 4 | Apply to a whetstone |
| 58% | USING | 5 | Applying to a purpose |
| 57% | NINEIRON | 8 | Club once referred to as a niblick |
| 57% | CITYBOND | 8 | Security commonly referred to as a "muni" |
| 57% | OREO | 4 | Snack sometimes referred to as a sandwich |
| 57% | APPEAL | 6 | Apply to a higher court |
| 57% | ENAMI | 5 | As a friend, to François |
| 57% | ENAMI | 5 | As a friend, to Frédéric |
| 56% | TIEDIN | 6 | Connected to as a marketing ploy (2 wds.) |
| 56% | KIWI | 4 | New Zealander referred to as a native bird |
| 56% | CICADA | 6 | Insect often mistakenly referred to as a locust |
| 56% | NUN | 3 | Religious female often referred to as a "sister" |
| 56% | LIE | 3 | What Huckleberry Finn referred to as a stretcher |
| 56% | RHINO | 5 | Animal playfully referred to as a "chubby unicorn" |
| 56% | ENAMI | 5 | As a friend, to the French |