| 100% | MILITARYCOUPLING | 16 | Fraternization on an army base? |
| 59% | MESS | 4 | Meal at an army base |
| 54% | AWOL | 4 | Missing from an army base: Abbr. |
| 51% | NOSIR | 5 | Words of denial at an army base: 2 wds. |
| 50% | STOMACH | 7 | Proverbially, an army marches on its __ |
| 50% | PREMISED | 8 | Based an argument on |
| 49% | MULAN | 5 | Fa ___, character from the Disney Princess franchise who joins an army under the guise of a man in the film based on a Chinese Legend |
| 47% | FTDODGE | 7 | Old Army base on the Santa Fe Trail, briefly |
| 47% | SOUND | 5 | Based on good reasoning, like an argument |
| 46% | PLATTER | 7 | An old-fashioned record, based on its shape |
| 45% | USAGE | 5 | What an electric bill is based on |
| 45% | AIDA | 4 | Musical based on an opera |
| 44% | SEDERS | 6 | Meals based on an Exodus chapter |
| 43% | PORGY | 5 | DuBose Heyward novel on which an opera was based |
| 43% | PREMISE | 7 | What a movie or an argument is based on |
| 43% | HAMILTON | 8 | Musical based on an American Founding Father |
| 42% | YENTL | 5 | Movie based on an Isaac Bashevis Singer story |
| 42% | PXES | 4 | Mdse. stores on army bases |
| 42% | PREMISE | 7 | Base an argument (on) |
| 42% | SPAN | 4 | Unit of length based on the width of an expanded hand |
| 42% | ANNE | 4 | "___ with an E" (show based on a Lucy Maud Montgomery book) |
| 41% | RETREAD | 7 | Hackneyed work based on an old idea |
| 41% | WAYNESWORLD | 11 | 1992 movie based on an "SNL" sketch |
| 41% | BAMBI | 5 | Disney film based on an Austrian novel |
| 41% | UNBROKEN | 8 | 2014 film based on a book about an Olympic athlete during WWII |
| 40% | ROOTS | 5 | TV miniseries based on an Alex Haley novel |
| 40% | ROOM | 4 | 2015 film based on an Emma Donoghue bestseller |
| 40% | GETSHORTY | 9 | 1995 film based on an Elmore Leonard novel |
| 40% | GIA | 3 | Angelina Jolie starrer biographical film based on the life of an American supermodel |
| 40% | OCTOBERSKY | 10 | Movie based on the memoir "Rocket Boys" (and an anagram of "Rocket Boys") |