| 100% | YARN | 4 | Ball of ___ (something in a knitting basket) |
| 80% | YARN | 4 | Ball or skein in a knitting basket |
| 72% | YARN | 4 | Ball in a knitter's basket |
| 64% | YARN | 4 | Material in a knitting basket |
| 64% | BALLOFYARN | 10 | Item in a knitting basket |
| 63% | REGARD | 6 | Think of something in a specific way |
| 61% | GIFT | 4 | Something in a game of Yankee Swap |
| 59% | MOCK | 4 | To make fun of something in a scornful manner (rhymes with "chalk") |
| 58% | BSIDE | 5 | Something in back of a hit? |
| 58% | FIE | 3 | Something in front of a foe? |
| 57% | BTW | 3 | "I just thought of something," in a text conversation: Abbr. |
| 57% | YARN | 4 | Ball in a basket |
| 56% | LEAK | 4 | Something of concern in a gas pipeline |
| 56% | YARN | 4 | Ball in a basket, maybe |
| 55% | BOLA | 4 | One ball of a pair in a weapon |
| 53% | CHAW | 4 | Something placed in the mouth of a pitcher? |
| 53% | ASP | 3 | Menace hiding in a basket of figs in "Antony and Cleopatra" |
| 53% | JOB | 3 | Something listed in the "Experience" section of a résumé |
| 53% | RIM | 3 | Steel part of a basket in basketball |
| 52% | BACKHAND | 8 | Way of hitting a ball in tennis |
| 52% | TOPSPIN | 7 | Rotational manipulation of a ball in sports |
| 52% | EAR | 3 | Something tugged in a game of charades |
| 52% | ONEPOUND | 8 | Maximum weight of a ball in Olympic soccer |
| 52% | FOUL | 4 | Ball hit out of play in a ballpark |
| 51% | UNI | 3 | Something that often precedes a corn, only in fiction, of course |
| 51% | BASSINET | 8 | Baby's bed in the shape of a basket |
| 50% | EON | 3 | Something unimaginable that's a blink of an eye in cosmological terms |
| 50% | BIOMARKER | 9 | Something that can indicate the presence of a disease in the body |
| 50% | YEA | 3 | A vote in favor of something |
| 50% | BESTMAN | 7 | Guy in a tux with a ring whose title is often something of a stretch |