100% | WROTEAONESENTENCEWILL | 21 | Calvin Coolidge lived up to his reputation as a man of few words when he … |
36% | YOULOSE | 7 | Calvin Coolidge's reputed reply to a woman who bet she could get more than two words out of him |
33% | HES | 3 | "___ a man of few words." |
32% | TERSE | 5 | Like a man of few words |
31% | MEET | 4 | "___ the Parents," 2000 film starring Ben Stiller as a man looking to win the approval of his in-laws |
31% | MAXIM | 5 | Words to live by, also the name of a popular men's magazine |
30% | ABIDEBY | 7 | Live up to, as a treaty |
30% | AUTOMATES | 9 | Streamlines, as a factory ... or, when read as two words, what the beginnings of the answers to starred clues are |
28% | TOMCRUISE | 9 | He underwent training, such as learning to fly a helicopter, to perform some of his own stunts in the "Mission: Impossible" films: 2 wds. |
27% | MOOR | 4 | Tie up to a pier, as a boat (anagram of "room") |
26% | FEW | 3 | "He's a man of ___ words" |
26% | HIS | 3 | "He's a man of ___ word" |
26% | HIS | 3 | "He is a man of ___ word" |
26% | HIS | 3 | ''He's a man of __ word'' |
26% | HIS | 3 | "He is a man of ___ word." |
26% | BISON | 5 | Q: What did the buffalo say to his boy when he left? A: ___ |
26% | VIS | 3 | Word added to either side of "-a-" when making a comparison |
26% | NEE | 3 | When a man proposes to someone he loves, he usually k___ls |
26% | HIS | 3 | A man of ___ words |
26% | HIS | 3 | A man of ___ word |
25% | THEPRISRIGHT | 12 | Exclamation when a product lives up to the hype? |
25% | METS | 4 | Lives up to, as expectations |
25% | HASBEEN | 7 | "He ___ a man of great fortitude throughout his life": 2 wds. |
25% | WALKTHETALK | 11 | Live up to one's word |
25% | SEE | 3 | "'I ___,' said the blind man, as he picked up a hammer and saw" |
25% | APHERESIS | 9 | Loss of a sound at the start of a word, as "opossum" to "possum" |
24% | ELMO | 4 | Character who talked to his dad, Louie, about Black Lives Matter protests on a 2020 episode of Sesame Street |
24% | LEFTMOST | 8 | "He ___ of his belongings behind, thinking he would come back in a few weeks.": 2 wds. |
24% | DUETO | 5 | As a result of (2 words) |
24% | MICHAELPHELPS | 13 | American swimmer who lost Kellogg Company as a sponsor after a photo of him smoking up went viral: 2 wds. |