| 100% | HITUP | 5 | Ask to borrow money from: 2 wds. |
| 63% | HITUP | 5 | Try to get money from: 2 wds. |
| 60% | SCAMS | 5 | Emails from strangers asking to borrow money, usually |
| 54% | HITUP | 5 | Ask to borrow bucks from |
| 49% | EYETEST | 7 | Examination where you're asked to read letters from a distance: 2 wds. |
| 44% | SWEARJAR | 8 | Place to put money after cursing: 2 wds. |
| 43% | CASHIN | 6 | Convert casino chips to money: 2 wds. |
| 43% | ALLDAY | 6 | From dawn to dusk: 2 wds. |
| 42% | TAXREBATE | 9 | Money back from the IRS: 2 wds. |
| 42% | PIANOMAN | 8 | Person who was asked to "sing us a song tonight" in a Billy Joel hit: 2 wds. |
| 41% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be poured from a keg: 2 wds. |
| 41% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be drawn from the keg: 2 wds. |
| 41% | HITUP | 5 | Ask (for), as money (2 wds.) |
| 39% | KYRIEIRVING | 11 | Point guard who asked to be traded (and is going to the Celtics) to escape 21-Across's shadow: 2 wds. |
| 39% | WITHDRAW | 8 | To remove money from an account |
| 39% | EMBEZZLE | 8 | To steal money from an employer |
| 38% | BADBET | 6 | Sure way to lose money (2 wds.) |
| 38% | ONA | 3 | ___ scale from one to ten: 2 wds. |
| 38% | EMBEZZLE | 8 | To steal money from one's workplace |
| 38% | ALOT | 4 | "That's ___ to ask": 2 wds. |
| 38% | ONA | 3 | "___ scale from 1 to 10 ..." (2 wds.) |
| 38% | ONTOUR | 6 | Traveling from gig to gig (2 wds.) |
| 38% | BARHOP | 6 | Go from pub to pub (2 wds.) |
| 38% | CLEARUP | 7 | Go from cloudy to fair (2 wds.) |
| 38% | DIEOFF | 6 | Go from endangered to extinct (2 wds.) |
| 38% | AREWEON | 7 | Question asked to confirm plans (3 wds.) |
| 38% | ISEE | 4 | 2 wds to show understanding of something |
| 38% | SOFTTOUCH | 9 | Person easy to borrow from |
| 38% | USURER | 6 | Bad person to borrow from |
| 38% | SPOTME | 6 | What Waldo might say when asking to borrow some cash |