| 100% | TAME | 4 | Broken to the saddle |
| 64% | STIRRUPS | 8 | They attach your feet to the saddle |
| 61% | SATE | 4 | Fill to the breaking point |
| 60% | INFORM | 6 | Break the news to |
| 60% | TOLD | 4 | Broke the news to |
| 59% | HAVENOFARE | 10 | Be too broke to take the bus? |
| 59% | COMEBACK | 8 | Return to the spotlight after a break |
| 59% | IHATE | 5 | "___ to break the news ..." |
| 58% | BRUISE | 6 | Injury to the skin that breaks blood vessels |
| 58% | WEALTH | 6 | Breaking the law to get riches |
| 57% | HOSE | 4 | Broken shoe used to water the plants |
| 56% | SHY | 3 | Unlikely to break the ice |
| 56% | SPEEDIEST | 9 | First to break the tape |
| 56% | HATE | 4 | "I ___ to break the news..." |
| 56% | ABETS | 5 | Helps to break the law |
| 55% | OMEN | 4 | Broken mirror, to the superstitious |
| 55% | GENTLY | 6 | One way to break the news |
| 55% | SHY | 3 | Unlikely to break the ice, say |
| 54% | YEGG | 4 | Robber who breaks the safes to steal |
| 53% | BETROTHED | 9 | Intended to wager on the rod being broken |
| 53% | OVERHEATS | 9 | Breaks down on the road due to lack of coolant |
| 53% | HOE | 3 | Tool used in the garden, to break ground |
| 53% | YEAGER | 6 | Chuck, first pilot to break the sound barrier |
| 53% | ABET | 4 | Lend support to a person breaking the law |
| 52% | HOE | 3 | Tool used to break up soil in the garden |
| 51% | STIRRUPS | 8 | Frame for the feet attached to a horse's saddle |
| 51% | YEAGER | 6 | He was the first to break the sound barrier, Chuck |
| 51% | ALZARQAWI | 9 | Subject of the 2008 book "How to Break a Terrorist" |
| 51% | WHIP | 4 | First object made by humans to break the sound barrier |
| 50% | FLY | 3 | "...Take these broken wings and learn to ___" ("Blackbird" by The Beatles) |