| 100% | WAGTHEDOG | 9 | Create a diversion from a damaging issue, in politics |
| 44% | RAIL | 4 | Touch the third ___ (approach a sensitive issue, in politics) |
| 42% | TATS | 4 | Creates from raw stuff, in a way |
| 40% | RACHELMADDOW | 12 | MSNBC host who earned a doctoral degree in politics from Oxford University: 2 wds. |
| 39% | SURGE | 5 | ___ protector (device that prevents damage from a rise in electric power) |
| 37% | SHUNTS | 6 | Creates a diversion with |
| 37% | ADAPTS | 6 | Creates a screenplay from |
| 37% | ABET | 4 | Create a diversion for, maybe |
| 37% | SCAN | 4 | Create a PDF from, perhaps |
| 37% | KNIT | 4 | Create a sweater from scratch |
| 35% | LEAK | 4 | Drip from a damaged pipe |
| 35% | LANDSLIDE | 9 | A term for an overwhelming victory in politics |
| 35% | STIR | 4 | Create a storm in a teacup, quite literally |
| 35% | EMANATING | 9 | Issuing from a source |
| 34% | SAVEME | 6 | Cry from a stereotypical damsel in distress |
| 34% | WARSAWWASRAW | 12 | Recollection from a winter tourist in Poland? |
| 34% | BEEP | 4 | Sound from a truck moving in reverse |
| 34% | CHAI | 4 | Cupful from a street vender in Kolkata |
| 34% | BTS | 3 | ___ Meal, trendy McDonald's meal from 2021, created in collaboration with a popular K-Pop band |
| 34% | CRIMP | 5 | Create a wavy pattern in |
| 34% | EMANANT | 7 | Issuing, as from a source |
| 34% | MOTIVE | 6 | Issue in a murder trial |
| 34% | MICRONESIAN | 11 | From a region in oceania |
| 34% | SIGMUND | 7 | In German legend, he pulled a sword from a tree |
| 34% | LYRE | 4 | Instrument created by Hermes from a tortoise shell |
| 34% | ADOPT | 5 | Take in, like a puppy from a shelter |
| 34% | OTOH | 4 | From a different perspective, in chat room lingo |
| 34% | BRRS | 4 | Sounds from a person out in the cold |
| 34% | LINOCUT | 7 | Print made from a design cut in linoleum |
| 33% | DENT | 4 | Damage from a fender bender, maybe |