| 100% | OPEN | 4 | Break the seal on |
| 59% | RECESS | 6 | Break spent on the playground |
| 57% | ORDO | 4 | Word on the Great Seal |
| 57% | NOVUS | 5 | Word on the Great Seal |
| 57% | EAGLE | 5 | Symbol on the Presidential seal |
| 57% | WAVES | 5 | They break on the beach |
| 57% | NEWS | 4 | Breaking ___ (urgent update on the BBC) |
| 56% | WAVE | 4 | It breaks on the beach |
| 56% | UNUM | 4 | Motto word on the Great Seal |
| 56% | EIRE | 4 | Word on the Irish presidential seal |
| 56% | EAGLE | 5 | Bird on the Otoe-Missouria seal |
| 56% | HARP | 4 | Symbol on the Irish Presidential seal |
| 56% | EUREKA | 6 | Word on the California state seal |
| 55% | MOOSE | 5 | Animal on the state seal of Maine |
| 54% | SEAR | 4 | Seal in the juices of, as steak on the grill |
| 54% | LEASE | 5 | Break it and you may be out on the street |
| 54% | OVERHEATS | 9 | Breaks down on the road due to lack of coolant |
| 53% | ELM | 3 | Tree on the Great Seal of North Dakota |
| 53% | ANTARCTIC | 9 | Ross seals are only found on the __ ice |
| 53% | BETROTHED | 9 | Intended to wager on the rod being broken |
| 53% | QUICKERBASKET | 13 | Fast break result, on the court? |
| 53% | EAGLE | 5 | Bird on the Great Seal of the United States |
| 52% | IOWA | 4 | Its state seal shows a steamboat on the Mississippi |
| 52% | URANIA | 6 | Muse on the U.S. Naval Observatory's seal |
| 52% | EAGLE | 5 | Bird that's a symbol on the presidential seal |
| 52% | RESTAREA | 8 | Place for a break on the interstate (2 wds.) |
| 51% | PLURIBUS | 8 | Latin word on the Great Seal of the United States |
| 51% | FRITZ | 5 | On the ___ (broken) |
| 51% | THRUST | 6 | — SSC, car driven by Andy Green that broke the sound barrier on land in 1997 |
| 50% | EAGLE | 5 | It clutches arrows and an olive branch on the Great Seal |