| 100% | DRAIN | 5 | Circling the ___ (about to go down the tubes) |
| 76% | OVUM | 4 | Once active, this is likely to go down the tube |
| 66% | FAIL | 4 | Go down the tubes |
| 63% | OVA | 3 | They go down the tubes |
| 63% | OVA | 3 | Ones going down the tubes? |
| 62% | PREOP | 5 | About to go under the knife, in brief |
| 62% | OVA | 3 | They could go down the tubes |
| 62% | ICERS | 5 | Their work goes down the tubes |
| 62% | SOITBEGINS | 10 | "Things are about to go down" |
| 62% | EDDY | 4 | Start to go down the drain |
| 62% | RAFT | 4 | Traditional transportation to go down the river |
| 61% | SLED | 4 | Snow-day toy to go down the hill |
| 58% | OVA | 3 | These could go right down the tubes |
| 57% | FAREWAR | 7 | When the price to go up may go down? |
| 57% | UPWARDS | 7 | Going in the opposite direction to down |
| 57% | DIVERT | 6 | Go down to the right to distract |
| 56% | VENTURE | 7 | To go somewhere without worrying about the risks |
| 56% | IMUST | 5 | "__ go down to the seas again": Masefield |
| 55% | ONEPIN | 6 | First to go down at the bowling alley, often (2 wds.) |
| 54% | NEVERAGOODIDEA | 14 | Always the wrong way to go about it |
| 54% | LANE | 4 | Go down the memory ___, remember the happy times, and a metaphorical place to enjoy 33a |
| 53% | MINI | 4 | Skirt that doesn't go down to the knees |
| 53% | NAILBITER | 9 | Contest that goes down to the last second: Hyph. |
| 53% | MASEFIELD | 9 | Writer of "I must go down to the seas again" |
| 52% | SHORE | 5 | *Pun day at the beach! "Want to go in the water?" "___, it's about time!" |
| 52% | ASEAT | 5 | "Take ___, the show's about to start!" ("Sit down!"): 2 wds. |
| 52% | ROW | 3 | How to go "gently down the stream," in a nursery rhyme |
| 52% | SEATASSIGNMENTS | 15 | They tell people where to go after walking down the aisle |
| 51% | DEVIL | 5 | "The ___ Went Down to Georgia" |
| 50% | SHOT | 4 | Down the tubes |