| 100% | CARROTCAKE | 10 | Dessert with an ingredient that grows underground |
| 83% | GINGERSNAPS | 11 | Cookies with an ingredient that grows underground |
| 80% | POTATOSKINS | 11 | Bar snack with an ingredient that grows underground |
| 79% | ONIONRINGS | 10 | Fast food side with an ingredient that grows underground |
| 40% | TIRAMISU | 8 | Layered dessert with coffee-soaked cake and creamy cheese, that you'd find in an Italian bakery |
| 40% | TUBER | 5 | Crop that grows underground |
| 40% | TEN | 3 | Thriller/horror film with an all-female cast that premiered at the Boston Underground Film Festival in 2014 |
| 39% | PINENUTS | 8 | Pesto ingredient that grows on conifers |
| 39% | ADDS | 4 | Puts in, as with an ingredient |
| 38% | POTATOES | 8 | Tubers that grow underground, such as russets |
| 38% | ROOT | 4 | ___ vegetables (foods that grow underground, like carrots) |
| 38% | TAPROOT | 7 | Large tapering body of veg that grows underground |
| 37% | TUBERS | 6 | Edible stems that grow underground e.g. potatoes |
| 37% | MUDPIE | 6 | Chocolaty dessert with an unappetizing name (2 wds.) |
| 37% | MUD | 3 | Mississippi ___ pie (chocolate dessert with an unappetizing name) |
| 37% | CHEESE | 6 | Frozen ___ salad, vintage recipe with a dairy ingredient and broccoli that might have had an "interesting" flavor |
| 37% | FARMER | 6 | An agriculturer that grows and harvests crops |
| 37% | ANT | 3 | One with an underground colony |
| 36% | OAK | 3 | Tree that grows from an acorn |
| 36% | ACORN | 5 | Nut that grows into an oak |
| 36% | NELLIEMELBA | 11 | Soprano with an eponymous peach dessert |
| 35% | OAK | 3 | Large tree that grows from an acorn |
| 35% | MONTREAL | 8 | French-Canadian city with an underground city |
| 35% | GIN | 3 | Cocktail ingredient that goes well with tonic |
| 35% | GENZ | 4 | Cohort that grew up with the internet |
| 35% | WALNUTCAKE | 10 | Baked dessert with shelled ingredients |
| 35% | MENU | 4 | Card with an entree and dessert section, perhaps |
| 35% | ALOE | 4 | Natural skin-care ingredient that rhymes with "shallow" |
| 35% | JELLO | 5 | Dessert that jiggles (rhymes with "hello") |
| 34% | MSG | 3 | Ingredient that may be part of an “umami bomb,” for short |