| 100% | IMSLEEPY | 8 | Comment from someone who’s ready to retire |
| 70% | SHALLWE | 7 | Question from someone who's ready to go |
| 61% | MEH | 3 | Comment from someone who's unimpressed |
| 59% | ISTINK | 6 | Comment from someone who's either self-deprecating or smelly |
| 54% | SHALLWE | 7 | Query from one who's ready to go |
| 54% | ITSATIE | 7 | Comment from someone who knows the score? |
| 52% | OOPS | 4 | Comment from someone who just spilled some wine, perhaps |
| 49% | NIGHT | 5 | Comment to one who's retiring, informally |
| 49% | SOS | 3 | Letters from someone who needs to be rescued |
| 49% | SOCANI | 6 | Retort from someone who refuses to be outdone |
| 48% | GUESSWHO | 8 | Playful comment from someone who puts his hands over your eyes: 2 wds. |
| 48% | IWONTGO | 7 | Assertion from someone who doesn't want to attend |
| 47% | LETMEGO | 7 | Plea from someone who wants to be released: 3 wds. |
| 47% | CANIGO | 6 | Question from someone who wants to tag along (3 wds.) |
| 47% | IGOTNEXT | 8 | Words from someone who wants to play the winner, maybe |
| 47% | IMKIDDING | 9 | Words from someone who doesn't want to be taken seriously |
| 47% | ITINERANT | 9 | Someone who travels from place to place to work |
| 47% | EAGER | 5 | ___ beaver (someone who's ready to get moving) |
| 46% | MOAN | 4 | Sound from someone who's hurting |
| 46% | SOB | 3 | Sound from someone who's down |
| 46% | SNORE | 5 | Sound from someone who's asleep |
| 46% | INHERE | 6 | "Hey!," from someone who's hiding |
| 46% | INEEDAHUG | 9 | Request from someone who's disconsolate |
| 46% | BRR | 3 | Sound from someone who's shivering |
| 46% | INEEDARIDE | 10 | Plea from someone who's stranded |
| 46% | IMAMESS | 7 | Cry from someone who's disheveled |
| 46% | MOANS | 5 | Sounds from someone who's hurting |
| 46% | DIBS | 4 | Cry from someone who's calling? |
| 46% | APOLOGY | 7 | Statement from someone who’s sorry |
| 46% | IMINLOVE | 8 | Words from someone who's fallen? |