| 100% | NATIVE | 6 | Good guide, maybe |
| 61% | NATIVE | 6 | Best guide around town, probably |
| 61% | NATIVE | 6 | Expert guide, maybe |
| 60% | NATIVES | 7 | Best guides around a city, say |
| 58% | ETHICAL | 7 | Guided by good |
| 56% | ASTUDENT | 8 | Best in class, maybe? |
| 56% | AGE | 3 | Get better, maybe |
| 55% | PAROLE | 6 | Good behavior's reward, maybe |
| 55% | HABIT | 5 | Good thing to break, maybe |
| 55% | ALPO | 4 | Best friend's dinner, maybe |
| 53% | STEADIEST | 9 | Best on the balance beam, maybe |
| 53% | MRS | 3 | Better half for 49-Across, maybe |
| 53% | MAN | 3 | Best ___ (groom's closest friend, maybe) |
| 53% | ORGANICS | 8 | Goods sold in green bags, maybe |
| 52% | TABOOS | 6 | Section of a foreign travel guide, maybe |
| 52% | ONEUP | 5 | Best in the name of pettiness, maybe |
| 52% | IMMORAL | 7 | Not guided by good ethics |
| 52% | NOTTHATBAD | 10 | Marginally better than expected, maybe |
| 51% | GURU | 4 | Spiritual guide in an Ashram, maybe |
| 51% | JANET | 5 | Programmed guide on "The Good Place" |
| 50% | TENACRE | 7 | Like a good-sized estate, maybe |
| 50% | KNITS | 5 | Makes good on sweater weather, maybe |
| 50% | WOEISI | 6 | 1996 best-selling guide for "grammarphobes" |
| 49% | HABIT | 5 | A regular tendency, maybe good or bad |
| 49% | CNET | 4 | "Your guide to a better future" site |
| 49% | CNET | 4 | "Your guide to a better future" website |
| 49% | MAN | 3 | Best ___ (groom's best friend, maybe) |
| 49% | TELLINGAGRAYLIE | 15 | Saying "You've never looked better," maybe |
| 49% | ROWED | 5 | Moved to a better fishing spot, maybe |
| 49% | ANECDOTE | 8 | Part of a best-man speech, maybe |