| 100% | STEMTOSTERN | 11 | Completely, in a nautical metaphor |
| 76% | RISINGTIDE | 10 | Something that helps everyone, in a nautical metaphor |
| 58% | RACE | 4 | Time opponent in a metaphor |
| 58% | TIDES | 5 | Listings in a nautical table |
| 58% | NED | 3 | Land in a nautical adventure |
| 56% | LAMB | 4 | Jesus, in a metaphor |
| 56% | SHIPSHAPE | 9 | Trim and tidy, in a nautical idiom |
| 56% | PIE | 3 | Food in a humility metaphor |
| 56% | PETARD | 6 | Explosive in a maritime metaphor |
| 56% | AISLE | 5 | Word in a marriage metaphor |
| 56% | THUMBS | 6 | Digits in a clumsiness metaphor |
| 56% | MUSIC | 5 | Good news, in a metaphor |
| 56% | TREES | 5 | Small details, in a metaphor |
| 56% | SKIN | 4 | Personal stake, in a metaphor |
| 56% | FAIRANDSQUARE | 13 | In a completely honest manner |
| 53% | SARDINES | 8 | Fish in a crowded-subway metaphor |
| 52% | HORSESMOUTH | 11 | . . . in a source metaphor |
| 52% | SANDS | 5 | Shifting particles, in a metaphor about time |
| 51% | SHIRT | 5 | Metaphor in a gambling debacle |
| 51% | BOOKUP | 6 | Fill completely, in a way |
| 51% | SHIRT | 5 | Metaphor in a big gambling loss |
| 50% | TKO | 3 | In a boxing match when one player is completely unconscious: Abbr. |
| 50% | DEFIED | 6 | Flew completely in the face of, in a way |
| 48% | *LESS | 5 | Completely black, in a way |
| 47% | HEART | 5 | *Unstinting effort, in a bodily metaphor |
| 47% | BANKRUPT | 8 | Completely lacking in a certain quality or value |
| 46% | LAIDTO | 6 | Stopped a ship using the wind, in nautical lingo |
| 44% | ICEMAN | 6 | Metaphor for death in a Eugene O'Neill play |
| 44% | TANGLEDWEB | 10 | Metaphor for lies, in a Walter Scott poem |
| 43% | NAGASAKI | 8 | Port in Japan almost completely destroyed in 1945 by a nuclear bomb |