| 100% | CRAM | 4 | Burn the midnight oil at college |
| 64% | STUDY | 5 | Burn the midnight oil |
| 64% | UPLATE | 6 | Burning the midnight oil |
| 64% | STILLUP | 7 | Burning the midnight oil |
| 63% | CRAM | 4 | Burn the midnight oil studying |
| 63% | STUDIED | 7 | Burned the midnight oil, perhaps |
| 63% | CRAM | 4 | Burn the midnight oil, student-style |
| 63% | IDIOM | 5 | Burn the midnight oil, e.g. |
| 62% | UPLATE | 6 | Burning the midnight oil, so to speak |
| 47% | OIL | 3 | Burn the midnight ___ (work late) |
| 45% | OIL | 3 | Burn the midnight ___ (work late into the night) |
| 44% | BOTH | 4 | Burn the candle at ___ ends |
| 44% | ENDS | 4 | Burn the candle at both ___ |
| 44% | ENDS | 4 | Burning the candle at both ___ |
| 43% | OVERDOINGIT | 11 | Burning the candle at both ends |
| 43% | CANDLE | 6 | Burning the __ at both ends |
| 42% | ENDS | 4 | Burn the candle at both ___ (work late) |
| 42% | OVERDIDIT | 9 | Burned the candle at both ends, say |
| 42% | MIDNIGHT | 8 | Working late, burning the __ oil |
| 42% | MIDNIGHT | 8 | Work very late, burn the __ oil |
| 41% | CREMATE | 7 | Burn at the end? |
| 41% | WELLDONE | 8 | Burned at the steakhouse? |
| 41% | SINGE | 5 | Burn at the hair salon |
| 38% | STAKE | 5 | Burned at the ___ (executed like Joan of Arc) |
| 38% | HERESY | 6 | Cause for burning at the stake |
| 38% | CALLLLLATE | 10 | Telephone the catalog merchant Bean at midnight? |
| 38% | PALER | 5 | More likely to burn at the beach |
| 37% | JANHUS | 6 | Bohemian religious reformer burned at the stake |
| 37% | TYNDALE | 7 | William __, Bible translator burned at the stake |
| 37% | JOANOFARC | 9 | French battle heroine, burned at the stake |