| 100% | RETARDANT | 9 | Flame __, substance that slows the spread of fire |
| 48% | GERMS | 5 | What coughing into your arm slows the spread of |
| 45% | DYE | 3 | Substance that changes the shade of your hair |
| 45% | SILKROAD | 8 | Route that facilitated the spread of Buddhism |
| 43% | ACIDS | 5 | Caustic substances that are the opposites of bases |
| 42% | DYE | 3 | Substance that might change the color of your hair or your food |
| 42% | OVER | 4 | Spread the jelly evenly ____ that slice of bread! |
| 40% | ORE | 3 | Metallic substance that's a resource in the game The Settlers of Catan |
| 40% | SPARK | 5 | Small bit of flame that could ignite a fire |
| 39% | SPARK | 5 | Small bit of flame that could get a fire going |
| 39% | LORIS | 5 | Slow ___, nocturnal primate that is one of the slowest animals in the world |
| 38% | ODORS | 5 | The properties of a substance that activate the sense of smell |
| 38% | GREAT | 5 | "___ Balls of Fire," 1957 song by Jerry Lee Lewis that was featured in the film "Top Gun" |
| 37% | REDS | 4 | Film that lost the Best Picture Oscar to "Chariots of Fire" |
| 37% | INHIBITOR | 9 | Substance that slows down a chemical reaction |
| 37% | URIC | 4 | Type of acid that is created when the body breaks down substances called purines |
| 36% | BAITZ | 5 | "The Substance of Fire" playwright |
| 36% | NEURONS | 7 | Parts of the brain that "fire" |
| 36% | EARTH | 5 | ___, Wind & Fire, musical group of the "disco-era" that sold over 90 million records worldwide |
| 36% | RETARDS | 7 | Slows the progress of |
| 36% | STUNTS | 6 | Slows the growth of |
| 36% | IMPEDE | 6 | Slow the progress of |
| 36% | DEADENED | 8 | Slowed the speed of |
| 36% | UREA | 4 | Substance that showed, in 1828, that something previously produced only as a by-product of life, could be created in the lab |
| 36% | SUN | 3 | Giant ball of fire in the center of our Solar System that lent its name to the noble gas, Helium |
| 35% | FLEA | 4 | Spreader of the Black Plague |
| 35% | EMPEDOCLES | 10 | Greek philosopher and scientist who held that the world is composed of air, fire, earth and water |
| 35% | ACID | 4 | Substance that turns the litmus red |
| 35% | BOG | 3 | Slow the progress of, with "down" |
| 35% | RAT | 3 | Spreader of the Black Death Plague |