| 100% | PRIMITIVE | 9 | Describes something in an early evolutionary form |
| 41% | TREE | 4 | Something in an orchard |
| 41% | ENCL | 4 | Something in an env. |
| 41% | EMAIL | 5 | Something in an "Unread" folder |
| 40% | ITEM | 4 | Something in an online shopping cart |
| 40% | BUD | 3 | Nip it in the ___ (destroy something in an early stage) |
| 39% | OLDE | 4 | Aged, in an earlier age |
| 39% | ETERNE | 6 | Ageless, in an earlier age |
| 39% | BATH | 4 | Go for an early ___, phrase that originated in rugby that means to stop doing something before you've finished |
| 39% | IMAC | 4 | Something in an office that's not PC? |
| 39% | BASICTRAINING | 13 | Instruction in an early computer language? |
| 39% | CANARY | 6 | Bird in an early warning system |
| 39% | ECTODERM | 8 | External layer in an early embryo |
| 38% | NEOPETS | 7 | Virtual animals in an early 2000s fad |
| 38% | OLDBLACKMAGIC | 13 | *"That" something in an Arlen/Mercer tune |
| 38% | OLDBLACKMAGIC | 13 | "That" something in an Arlen/Mercer standard |
| 37% | SIM | 3 | Character in an early city-building video game |
| 37% | WIMPLE | 6 | Garb in an early ''Sound of Music'' lyric |
| 37% | SARS | 4 | Disease in an early-two-thousands outbreak, familiarly |
| 37% | PSA | 3 | Smokey Bear was in an early one, for short |
| 37% | HOT | 3 | "Selling like ___cakes," idiom describing something in high demand |
| 37% | HATH | 4 | Has in an old form? |
| 37% | TAXTABLE | 8 | Chart in an IRS form |
| 36% | CHAW | 4 | Something in the mouth of an old pitcher? |
| 36% | BASS | 4 | Big Mouth Billy ___ (singing fish prop in an early-2000s fad) |
| 35% | STOPPABLE | 9 | Describes something that can be brought to an end |
| 35% | NAME | 4 | First field in an online form, often |
| 35% | HUGUENOT | 8 | Many an early French settler in America |
| 35% | PRIMITIVE | 9 | Relating to an early stage in development |
| 35% | EXERCISE | 8 | An __ in futility, something pointless |