| 100% | NOHARM | 6 | First half of a phrase used to forgive a benign mistake |
| 41% | CLEAR | 5 | Steer ___ of, phrase you may use to avoid a problem |
| 39% | SIDEA | 5 | First half of a cassette |
| 39% | SIDEA | 5 | First half of a single |
| 39% | GIVEMEAMUSEUM | 13 | First half of a quote |
| 39% | XXXXXXXXX | 9 | First half of a course |
| 39% | SAYTHEMAGICWORD | 15 | Phrase used to prompt a ''Please'' |
| 39% | YEAS | 4 | First half of a Senate vote |
| 39% | AYES | 4 | First half of a Senate vote |
| 39% | OBLADI | 6 | First half of a Beatles title |
| 39% | GENUS | 5 | First half of a taxonomic name |
| 39% | TOP | 3 | First half of a baseball inning |
| 38% | REIN | 4 | One of a pair used to control a horse |
| 38% | FRONTNINE | 9 | First half of a round of golf |
| 38% | DAYGAME | 7 | First half of a double-header, generally |
| 38% | DAYGAME | 7 | First half of a double-header, usually |
| 38% | USEIT | 5 | First half of a rhyming fitness motto |
| 38% | HEE | 3 | First half of a donkey's bray |
| 38% | ACTI | 4 | First half of a Broadway musical, typically |
| 38% | ARM | 3 | Half of a stiff price to pay |
| 38% | XMARKSTHESPOT | 13 | Treasure-indicating phrase, and a hint to the first words of the starred answers |
| 38% | ALLJOKINGASIDE | 14 | First half of a vinyl-pressed comedy album? |
| 38% | ETCETERA | 8 | Latin phrase often used at the end of a list to mean "and so on" |
| 37% | MANNEQUIN | 9 | A model of a person used to display clothes |
| 37% | TICTACTOEISAMID | 15 | First line of a couplet pertinent to this puzzle |
| 37% | POW | 3 | Phrase used to showcase a punch effect in comic books |
| 37% | HARPER | 6 | First name of the author of To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 37% | EDGE | 4 | Side of a ski used to carve turns |
| 37% | MARIE | 5 | First name of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize |
| 36% | LETS | 4 | *"___ consider ..." a phrase used to start exploring an idea |