| 100% | TEDIOUS | 7 | Edward promises to be boring |
| 75% | TEDIOUS | 7 | Edward promises to be dull |
| 56% | ENGAGED | 7 | Promised to be married |
| 55% | PLEDGE | 6 | Promise to be quiet on sill |
| 54% | FURIOUS | 7 | Growth promises to be wild |
| 54% | ENGAGED | 7 | Betrothed, promised to be married |
| 51% | BANAL | 5 | Unoriginal or trite, so as to be boring |
| 51% | VARIOUS | 7 | Victory on a river promises to be different |
| 49% | ELIXIR | 6 | Medicine that's not all it's promised to be |
| 49% | KEEP | 4 | Be faithful to promise |
| 46% | VOW | 3 | Promise meant to be honored |
| 46% | RUT | 3 | Boring routine that may be hard to break |
| 45% | RUT | 3 | Boring routine to be stuck in |
| 44% | PLEDGEE | 7 | Person to whom a promise is made |
| 43% | ELSE | 4 | "What ___ is there to do?" ("I'm bored") |
| 43% | DEMOTED | 7 | Show Edward to be sent down |
| 43% | RED | 3 | How Harold Edward Grange is known to football fans |
| 43% | ELSE | 4 | I am so bored, there is nothing ___ to do |
| 42% | OWED | 4 | Now Edward has to have been obliged |
| 42% | EVIL | 4 | Google promised not to be |
| 42% | ISEE | 4 | Prom___ is the person to whom a promise is made |
| 42% | IDO | 3 | Promise to a to-be spouse: 2 wds. |
| 41% | IOU | 3 | Letters that are promising to see? |
| 41% | YAWNERS | 7 | Things that are so boring they cause people to get sleepy |
| 40% | NYLON | 5 | Material promised to be “as strong as steel, as fine as the spider’s web” at the 1939 World’s Fair |
| 40% | RUT | 3 | It's boring to be stuck in one |
| 39% | YOUBETTER | 9 | Response to "I promise I will" |
| 38% | BANAL | 5 | Stop a cadet being boring |
| 38% | DULL | 4 | Note university students are boring |
| 38% | DULL | 4 | Dutch university students are boring |