| 100% | MAXEDOUT | 8 | At the limit, as a credit card |
| 80% | MAXOUT | 6 | Take to the limit, as a credit card |
| 69% | MAXOUT | 6 | Reach the upper limit of, as a credit card: 2 wds. |
| 60% | SWIPED | 6 | Ran through, as a credit card |
| 60% | ACTIVATE | 8 | Make usable, as a credit card |
| 59% | SWIPES | 6 | Processes during checkout, as a credit card |
| 59% | SWIPE | 5 | Use, as a credit card |
| 59% | LAPSE | 5 | Expire, as a credit card |
| 59% | HONOR | 5 | Accept, as a credit card |
| 59% | HONORS | 6 | Accepts, as a credit card |
| 59% | ACCEPTS | 7 | Takes, as a credit card |
| 58% | MAXED | 5 | ___ out (at the limit of one's credit card) |
| 57% | SWIPE | 5 | Slide, as a credit card through a reader |
| 56% | MAXES | 5 | Completely uses up, as a credit card, with "out" |
| 52% | SPED | 4 | Went over the limit, as in a car |
| 52% | SUNK | 4 | At the ocean's bottom, as a ship |
| 52% | ATOP | 4 | At the highest point, as of a mountain |
| 51% | BAYS | 4 | Howls at the moon, as a coyote might |
| 51% | HADIN | 5 | Welcomed, as a guest at the door |
| 51% | CHAMPS | 6 | Bites, as a horse at the bit |
| 50% | RAN | 3 | Sought, as a seat at the Oval Office |
| 50% | RIGHTSIZE | 9 | Set at the proper level, as a work force |
| 50% | ABORT | 5 | Scrub at the last minute, as a rocket launch |
| 50% | FRAY | 4 | Become ragged at the edges, as a rope would |
| 49% | ESIGN | 5 | Use the stylus on a credit card machine, for example |
| 48% | BIGGIANTMONSTER | 15 | Marquee at the Tri-Plex mistaken as a promo for ... "Godzilla"? |
| 48% | SWIPE | 5 | Put through a machine, as a credit card |
| 48% | SWIPE | 5 | Pass through a reader, as a credit card |
| 48% | TAPS | 4 | Touches to a screen, as a credit card |
| 48% | BASELINE | 8 | Limit at the furthest end of a tennis court |