| 100% | ONSIDE | 6 | Behind the line of scrimmage |
| 93% | SACK | 4 | Tackle behind the line of scrimmage |
| 92% | SACK | 4 | Tackle a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage |
| 90% | BACKS | 5 | Football players who are positioned behind the line of scrimmage |
| 72% | GAIN | 4 | Advance beyond the line of scrimmage |
| 71% | END | 3 | Football position on the line of scrimmage |
| 69% | SNAPDECISION | 12 | Choice to make an audible at the line of scrimmage? |
| 59% | PAY | 3 | "___ no attention to that man behind the curtain!" ("The Wizard of Oz" line) |
| 57% | AUDIBLE | 7 | Line of scrimmage call |
| 55% | ALONG | 5 | ___ the lines of (similar to) |
| 54% | AXIAL | 5 | About the line of rotation |
| 54% | AXIAL | 5 | Along the line of rotation |
| 54% | AWOL | 4 | Off the line of duty? |
| 53% | STILLIRISE | 10 | Classic poem with the lines "Leaving behind nights of terror and fear ... Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear" |
| 52% | SON | 3 | Follower in the line of succession, sometimes |
| 52% | AWOL | 4 | Missing from the line of duty: Abbr. |
| 52% | ORGCHART | 8 | It lays out the lines of authority |
| 52% | RHYME | 5 | What the lines of a limerick do |
| 52% | EGBDF | 5 | Lines of the treble staff |
| 51% | LEAHY | 5 | Next in the line of succession after Boehner |
| 51% | RETRACE | 7 | Draw over the lines of a picture again |
| 51% | SCENES | 6 | Behind the __; out of public sight |
| 51% | ABAFT | 5 | Behind the stern of a ship |
| 50% | RENE | 4 | Clint's "In the Line of Fire" co-star |
| 50% | PELOSI | 6 | She's after Harris in the line of succession |
| 50% | LINEAGE | 7 | Line of ancestry, tracing of the family |
| 50% | DYNASTY | 7 | Line of rulers from the same family |
| 50% | RAY | 3 | Line of light radiating from the Sun |
| 50% | EYEBROW | 7 | Line of hair on the lower forehead |
| 50% | FORTYNINE | 9 | Line of parallel separates the US & Canada |