| 100% | GOT | 3 | Bill Bryson's "The Mother Tongue: English and How It ___ That Way" |
| 38% | ASIDE | 5 | "Step ___ and watch how it's done!" (out of the way) |
| 38% | ASIDE | 5 | Step ___ and watch how it's done! (out of the way) |
| 37% | TREND | 5 | That's the way it goes |
| 36% | STATUSQUO | 9 | That's just the way it is |
| 35% | AND | 3 | "___ that's the way it is" (Cronkite sign-off) |
| 35% | IWANT | 5 | "___ It That Way" (signature song for the Backstreet Boys) |
| 35% | FRAIDSO | 7 | "Yep, that's the way it is" |
| 34% | USE | 3 | "It's in the Way That You ___ It" (Eric Clapton song) |
| 34% | ALLTOMYSELF | 11 | Dan + Shay song with the lyrics "I'm jealous of the song that you've been singin' / And the way it's rollin' off your lips" (3 wds.) |
| 33% | ESS | 3 | It goes this way and that |
| 32% | USE | 3 | "It's in the Way That You ___ It" (song in "The Color of Money") |
| 32% | CRONKITE | 8 | His tag line was “And that’s the way it is” |
| 32% | USE | 3 | "It's in the Way That You ___ It" (Clapton song in "The Color of Money") |
| 32% | ITIS | 4 | “And that’s the way —” |
| 32% | KISS | 4 | Group that registered its makeup designs with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office |
| 32% | MAYNARD | 7 | Bill —, actor-comedian who starred in ITV sitcoms Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt! and The Gaffer |
| 32% | MICDROP | 7 | [And that's how you do it!] |
| 32% | ENDS | 4 | "...and that's how the story ___." (concludes) |
| 32% | SIC | 3 | [That's the way it was written] |
| 32% | SADBUTTRUE | 10 | “That’s the way it is, unfortunately” |
| 32% | AWALK | 5 | Bill Bryson's "— in the Woods" |
| 32% | USE | 3 | "It's in the Way That You ___ It" (Eric Clapton song in "The Color of Money") |
| 32% | QUEUE | 5 | Only English word that's pronounced the same after its last four letters are removed |
| 31% | DION | 4 | "That's the Way It Is" singer Celine |
| 31% | RED | 3 | The M&M macot who removes his outer shell and says, "Oh, it's that kind of party." |
| 31% | ITIS | 4 | "And that's the way ___": 2 wds. |
| 31% | SIC | 3 | "That's how it was originally written, mistakes and all" |
| 31% | CRUMBLES | 8 | "That's the way the cookie ___," idiom that means an unpleasant situation must be accepted as it is |
| 31% | EAT | 3 | "Have your cake and ___ it too," idiom that's about how you can't want it all |