| 100% | THEWORST | 8 | Dr Pepper ad slogan: What's __ that could happen? |
| 43% | WORST | 5 | "What's the ___ that could happen?" |
| 43% | WORST | 5 | "What's the ___ that can happen?" |
| 42% | DOIDARE | 7 | ''What's the worst that could happen?'' |
| 40% | SUREWHYNOT | 10 | "Oh, what's the worst that could happen?" |
| 38% | IFS | 3 | What-___ (things that could have happened) |
| 37% | EVENT | 5 | That's what happens |
| 36% | ASIF | 4 | "Like that could happen" |
| 35% | SOYEAH | 6 | "And, uh, that's what happened" |
| 33% | RELATE | 6 | “I can ___” (“I know what that’s like”) |
| 33% | ASIF | 4 | "Like that could ever happen!" |
| 32% | STIR | 4 | What to do to paint that's in a just-opened can |
| 32% | ASIF | 4 | "Oh, sure, that could really happen!" |
| 31% | ROOM | 4 | What's left in a cup of coffee so that you can add cream and sugar |
| 31% | IMSOSURE | 8 | "Oh, like that could ever happen!" (3 wds.) |
| 31% | EVER | 4 | Word that can follow who, what, or when |
| 31% | SPILLEDMILK | 11 | Metaphor for something that can't be changed, and what's found five times in this puzzle? |
| 31% | IFS | 3 | What-___ (things that might have happened) |
| 31% | ITMAY | 5 | "That could happen" |
| 30% | TRI | 3 | Prefix that can come before ads, age or dent |
| 30% | BOAT | 4 | What can float that rhymes with "float" |
| 30% | ROAR | 4 | What lions can do that pumas cannot |
| 30% | AND | 3 | "So what happened after that?" |
| 30% | FLY | 3 | What Superman can do that Batman can't |
| 30% | ARE | 3 | What you can take that I can't? |
| 30% | ARE | 3 | What you may have that I can't? |
| 30% | DOTDOTDOT | 9 | [You can imagine what happened next] |
| 30% | ITSABLUR | 8 | “I can barely remember what happened” |
| 29% | ESA | 3 | What's that, Jaime? |
| 29% | CHE | 3 | What's that, Carlo? |