| 100% | PREDICAMENT | 11 | Damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation (five letters) |
| 68% | DAMNED | 6 | "___ if you do, ___ if you don't" |
| 65% | TRY | 3 | If at first you don't succeed, do this again |
| 64% | TYRESHOELACES | 13 | If you don't do this you might trip |
| 61% | TRY | 3 | What to do again (and again), if at first you don’t succeed |
| 60% | HUM | 3 | What you can do if you don't know the words |
| 60% | ASK | 3 | What to do if you don't see what you want |
| 60% | GUESS | 5 | What you might do if you don't know an answer |
| 60% | HUM | 3 | What you can do if you don't want to sing along |
| 60% | RESAW | 5 | What you may have to do if you don't measure twice |
| 58% | LIE | 3 | What you'd do if you don't want the truth to come out |
| 56% | FRISKS | 6 | What the TSA does if you don't want to go through the full body scan machine |
| 55% | LALA | 4 | What you might sing if you don't know the words |
| 55% | ITSSO | 5 | "If ___ easy, why don't you do it?": 2 wds. |
| 54% | CRIME | 5 | "If you can't do the time, don't do the ___" |
| 54% | SOSOOTHEME | 10 | "If you don't like my anger, do something about it!"? |
| 54% | ISSO | 4 | "If it ___ important, why don't you do it yourself?": 2 wds. |
| 54% | ITSSO | 5 | "If ___ urgent why don't you do it right away.": 2 wds. |
| 53% | LIE | 3 | Say "I do" when you don't? |
| 53% | NONOS | 5 | Things you don't do |
| 53% | FUNNY | 5 | "It's ___. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." closing lines from "The Catcher in the Rye" |
| 52% | TRY | 3 | If at first you don't succeed, ___ again |
| 52% | TRY | 3 | If at first you don't succeed, ____ again |
| 52% | DAB | 3 | You don't just do the ___, you feel the ___ |
| 52% | AGAIN | 5 | If at first you don't succeed, try, try __ |
| 52% | THEO | 4 | Letter you don't pronounce in "jeopardy" and "leopard" |
| 52% | SANSA | 5 | Winterfell character on "Game of Thrones" ... or, if you change the fourth letter to T, a wintertime character |
| 51% | NONOS | 5 | Things you don't do (2 words) |
| 51% | THECATCHERINTHERYE | 18 | Novel that ends "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody" |
| 51% | ABIDE | 5 | Verb that becomes a five-letter alphabet run if you change its middle letter |