| 100% | OFAGE | 5 | Coming-___ story: Hyph. |
| 65% | OFAGE | 5 | Coming-___ story |
| 60% | AGE | 3 | Coming-of-___ story |
| 60% | AGE | 3 | Coming-of- ___ story |
| 54% | ADLIB | 5 | Come up with, on the spot: Hyph. |
| 54% | END | 3 | Come to a close, as a story |
| 53% | UHOH | 4 | "___, here comes trouble!" (Oops): Hyph. |
| 53% | UHOH | 4 | "Here comes trouble!": Hyph. |
| 53% | UHOH | 4 | "Here comes trouble": Hyph. |
| 52% | RUNNERUP | 8 | Person who comes in second: Hyph. |
| 52% | OHO | 3 | "Now the full story comes out!" |
| 51% | UHOH | 4 | "I didn't see this coming": Hyph. |
| 51% | POPUPBOOK | 9 | Story-time selection with 3D pages: 2 wds., hyph. |
| 51% | ADLIB | 5 | Come up with lines like an improv performer: Hyph. |
| 51% | TWEENS | 6 | Many characters in coming-of-age stories |
| 50% | HUMBLEBEGINNINGS | 16 | What a local success story comes from |
| 48% | YOYO | 4 | Stringed toy that keeps coming back to you: Hyph. |
| 48% | TROJANWAR | 9 | Old story coming straight from the horse's mouth? |
| 47% | UHOH | 4 | Expression for "Here comes trouble": Hyph. |
| 46% | SISSY | 5 | Best-selling 2019 memoir subtitled "A Coming-of-Gender Story" |
| 46% | PRECURSOR | 9 | The story before a story; the one that came before |
| 46% | SHAGGYDOG | 9 | Long story that's interesting only for the teller: Hyph. |
| 45% | TOY | 3 | "___ Story," a popular franchise about action figures and dolls that come alive |
| 44% | YOYO | 4 | Toy with a string, goes down and comes back up: Hyph. |
| 44% | YOLATENGO | 9 | Band whose name comes from a story about a shouting outfielder |
| 42% | UPAND | 5 | ___-coming (on the rise): Hyph. |
| 41% | YOYO | 4 | Toy on a string that may go around and come back around: Hyph. |
| 40% | UHOH | 4 | "Here come's trouble!" (Hyph.) |
| 40% | UHOH | 4 | "Here comes trouble!" (Hyph.) |
| 39% | LAHTI | 5 | Actress Christine who wrote "True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A Feminist Coming of Age" |