| 100% | STRIKE | 6 | Bowler's first goal; all ten pins in one roll |
| 45% | STRIKE | 6 | Ten pins in one ball |
| 41% | SPARE | 5 | Ten pins in two rolls, in bowling |
| 36% | SPARE | 5 | Term for knocking down all ten bowling pins in two tries |
| 36% | THE | 3 | First word in all but one "Seinfeld" episode title |
| 35% | STRIKE | 6 | Act of knocking down all the pins with the first ball of a frame in ten-pin bowling |
| 34% | NANCYWILSON | 11 | One of Rolling Stone's "250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," she plays guitar in the rock group Heart: 2 wds. |
| 33% | SPARE | 5 | Ten pins in two balls |
| 33% | SUSANTEDESCHI | 13 | One of Rolling Stone's "250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," she plays guitar in a band alongside husband Derek Trucks: 2 wds. |
| 33% | STRIKE | 6 | When a bowler knocks over all ten pins |
| 33% | BAKER | 5 | One who's rolling in dough? |
| 33% | FATCAT | 6 | One who's rolling in money |
| 32% | STRIKE | 6 | Knock down all 10 bowling pins in one go |
| 32% | NOTREAL | 7 | All in one's head, say (2 wds.) |
| 32% | NOSY | 4 | All up in one's business |
| 32% | MOM | 3 | First woman in one's life |
| 31% | PIN | 3 | One rolling in dough? |
| 31% | THE | 3 | First word in all of 9-Down’s novels |
| 31% | PATENT | 6 | George Washington signed America's first one in 1790 |
| 31% | TAPOUT | 6 | Lose all one's money in gambling |
| 31% | OCEANWAVES | 10 | Ones rolling in the deep |
| 30% | COOKIESHEET | 11 | Need for one who's rolling in dough? |
| 30% | WINTERTIRE | 10 | One rolling around in salt, perhaps |
| 30% | ESSAY | 5 | One of ten in Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" |
| 30% | WINATLIFE | 9 | Succeed in all one's endeavors, so to speak |
| 29% | RISKYMOVE | 9 | Investing all one's money in a penny stock, say |
| 29% | ZOO | 3 | Philadelphia had the first one in the U.S. (1874) |
| 29% | SLAY | 4 | Make one roll in the aisles |
| 29% | ENTIRE | 6 | All in one piece |
| 29% | LEADER | 6 | One currently in first |