| 100% | RAGS | 4 | Half a poverty-to-wealth metaphor |
| 54% | ANTLER | 6 | Half a rack, to a hunter |
| 53% | BEES | 4 | Half a sex-ed metaphor, with "the" |
| 53% | NOMUSS | 6 | Half a rhyming "easy to do" phrase |
| 52% | SASE | 4 | Half a dozen to a lady in Timisoara |
| 51% | CAF | 3 | Half-___ (request to a barista) |
| 51% | RICHES | 6 | Rags to __, a journey from poverty to great wealth |
| 50% | IDEALS | 6 | Guiding stars, to use a metaphor |
| 49% | ARM | 3 | Half of a stiff price to pay |
| 48% | DEMITASSE | 9 | Small, half a cup, used to serve an espresso in |
| 48% | BSIDE | 5 | Half that's unlikely to become a hit |
| 48% | SEVENAND | 8 | ___ a half (card game similar to blackjack) |
| 47% | TOPUP | 5 | Add more to a half-drunk beverage |
| 47% | CAF | 3 | Full or half order to a barista |
| 46% | STRIKEZONE | 10 | What half of a battery is next to |
| 46% | TBSP | 4 | Measure equal to half of a fl. oz. |
| 46% | NANU | 4 | Half a Mork-to-Orson farewell |
| 45% | SAW | 3 | A magician might use one to cut a woman in half |
| 45% | HERDINGCATS | 11 | Trying to manage the unmanageable, per a feline metaphor |
| 45% | SAW | 3 | What a magician uses to cut someone in half |
| 45% | SAW | 3 | Tool a magician uses to cut someone in half |
| 45% | INCH | 4 | Measure equal to about two and a half centimeters |
| 45% | HEMI | 4 | Prefix with "sphere" to mean half of a sphere |
| 45% | LEGUP | 5 | Metaphor equivalent to "helping hand," expressed with a different appendage: 2 wds. |
| 44% | PARASITE | 8 | 2019 film about a family's efforts to escape poverty |
| 44% | GOALPOSTS | 9 | It's unfair to move them, in a sports metaphor |
| 44% | ROD | 3 | Unit of length equal to five and a half yards |
| 44% | SAW | 3 | What a magician uses to cut his assistant in half |
| 44% | SON | 3 | Jake to Alan Harper in "Two and a Half Men" |
| 43% | NOHARM | 6 | First half of a phrase used to forgive a benign mistake |