| 100% | MON | 3 | Day when it's hard to wake up in the morning, for short |
| 49% | ALARM | 5 | It's set to wake you in the morning |
| 43% | TBA | 3 | Up in the air, as what to air, for short |
| 42% | ALARM | 5 | It wakes you up in the morning |
| 40% | SEP | 3 | Month when Green Day needs to be woken up, for short? |
| 38% | TBA | 3 | Up in the air, for short |
| 38% | TBD | 3 | Up in the air, for short |
| 38% | SLANG | 5 | It’s hard to keep up with on the Internet |
| 37% | JIG | 3 | It's usually up when the cops walk in |
| 37% | SLOTH | 5 | *Slow animal found hanging upside down in the Amazon... and which sleeps for up to 18 hours each day |
| 37% | TBD | 3 | Still up in the air, for short |
| 36% | PEDAL | 5 | What it's harder to do on an exercise bike when you increase the resistance |
| 36% | LISP | 4 | "Whose cruel idea was it for the word '___' to have an S in it?" (Steven Wright joke) |
| 36% | GET | 3 | "___ up! It's time for school" (shout heard in morning) |
| 35% | ALARM | 5 | It goes off and wakes you in the morning |
| 35% | HOUSE | 5 | It's up for grabs in the 2018 midterms |
| 35% | ASL | 3 | It's sometimes shown in the corner of a TV screen, for short |
| 35% | DEWIER | 6 | Like grass in the morning, compared to other times of day |
| 34% | FURBISH | 7 | In the old days it meant to polish a weapon |
| 34% | LATS | 4 | Largest muscle in the upper body, for short |
| 34% | HYPE | 4 | It's hard to live up to |
| 34% | BLUE | 4 | This 14-season TV series bid farewell to the silver screen in 2024. Give it up for the NYPD drama series, "___ Bloods"! |
| 34% | SEP | 3 | Labor Day month in the U.S., for short |
| 33% | PEP | 3 | It's nearly time for the football season to start, let's amp up the players at the ___ rally |
| 33% | ACCT | 4 | Where to keep money in the bank, for short |
| 33% | ELBOWROOM | 9 | It's hard to find in a crowd |
| 33% | AMP | 3 | To pump up the sound, for short |
| 33% | ASTIR | 5 | Up in the morning |
| 33% | DRC | 3 | Country in the 2024 documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” for short |
| 33% | COMPSCI | 7 | Class where it's best to get with the program, for short? |