| 100% | GEYSER | 6 | Eruption of water from a hot spring in the ground |
| 45% | COFFEE | 6 | Hot beverage made from the roasted and ground seeds of a tropical Old World shrub |
| 42% | ONFIRE | 6 | In the midst of a hot streak |
| 42% | ONAROLL | 7 | In the middle of a hot streak |
| 41% | TEAR | 4 | A drop of water from the eye |
| 41% | PIT | 3 | A large hole in the ground, also the center of a cherry |
| 41% | METEOR | 6 | Part of a hot shower in the sky |
| 40% | LAGOON | 6 | Body of water separated from the sea by a reef |
| 40% | LAGOON | 6 | Body of water separated from the ocean by a reef |
| 39% | KNEE | 4 | Body part touched to the ground in a modern form of protest |
| 39% | ATARI | 5 | Company whose name comes from a term in the game of Go |
| 39% | WRINGS | 6 | Gets the water out of, in a way |
| 38% | OMEN | 4 | Something interpreted from a bird's behavior, in the ancient Greek practice of ornithomancy |
| 38% | PAPRIKA | 7 | Red spice from the sweeter part of a ground pepper |
| 38% | FIN | 3 | Part of a shark that sticks up from the water |
| 38% | IMIT | 4 | Starting words from the tagger in a game of tag |
| 38% | CRAMPY | 6 | In need of a hot water bottle, perhaps |
| 38% | ANTS | 4 | What people on the ground might look like from the top of a Ferris wheel |
| 38% | LEAK | 4 | Loss of water from a pipe |
| 38% | THUN | 4 | Lake —, body of water in central Switzerland formed by a widening of the Aare River |
| 38% | LAVA | 4 | What erupted from a volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent starting in April |
| 37% | SPIV | 4 | Gent who sells hot stuff from the back of a lorry |
| 37% | REM | 3 | Band that took its name from a stage of sleep Michael Stipe found in the dictionary |
| 37% | NETSUKE | 7 | In Japan, a carved toggle of wood or ivory worn dangling from the waist |
| 37% | TRAP | 4 | "It's a ___!" (line from Admiral Ackbar in "Return of the Jedi") |
| 37% | FAIRY | 5 | Kids leave their baby teeth under their pillows, in the hope of a present from the Tooth ___ |
| 37% | EVENT | 5 | "In the unlikely ___ of a water landing ..." |
| 37% | SOWN | 4 | In the ground, in a way |
| 37% | STAN | 4 | Overzealous admirer, possibly from a mash-up of the terms "stalker" and "fan" in an Eminem song |
| 37% | BAULK | 5 | In croquet, either of the two lines from which a ball is struck into play |