| 100% | AMBIDEXTROUSLY | 14 | How the best pickpockets work, according to Ambrose Bierce |
| 41% | HONESTY | 7 | The best policy, according to a saying |
| 39% | AREFREE | 7 | The best things in life __, according to a saying |
| 38% | FINISHWITHATWIST | 16 | What the best mystery writers know how to do? |
| 37% | POLICY | 6 | Honesty is the best one, according to the saying |
| 34% | LEANIN | 6 | 2013 best seller subtitled "Women, Work and the Will to Lead" |
| 34% | GIRLSCOUT | 9 | Troop member who works to make the world a better place |
| 34% | HARPERLEE | 9 | Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll |
| 34% | ONA | 3 | "___ scale of one to ten, how good was the movie?": 2 wds. |
| 34% | OHNICE | 6 | According to Oprah, if she says this about seven times in the same show, things aren't going well |
| 33% | MAP | 3 | It works according to scale |
| 32% | ALONE | 5 | In bad company, to Ambrose Bierce |
| 32% | CPAS | 4 | Pros who work according to schedule? |
| 32% | ASTHEYSAY | 9 | According to the proverb |
| 32% | OFFICIALLY | 10 | According to the authorities |
| 32% | PURPORTEDLY | 11 | According to the grapevine |
| 32% | ONAUTO | 6 | According to the program? |
| 32% | LAWSON | 6 | TV personality Nigella ___ who wrote the best-seller "How to Eat" |
| 32% | RAH | 3 | Victorian building that someone, according to "A Day in the Life", knew how many holes it took to fill (abbr.) |
| 32% | NECKANDNECK | 11 | How the best races end at the vampire Olympics? |
| 32% | HOYLE | 5 | According to ___ (by the rules) |
| 32% | FRONTROWCENTER | 14 | The best place to see |
| 32% | LADDERDAY | 9 | The best time to elope? |
| 32% | FIRSTCLASSCABIN | 15 | The best place to sit |
| 32% | PENTHOUSESUITE | 14 | The best place to sleep |
| 32% | YET | 3 | The best is ___ to come |
| 32% | ALLYOUNEED | 10 | ... according to the Beatles |
| 31% | THECOVERSOF | 11 | Scathing review attributed to Ambrose Bierce, part 1 |
| 31% | HONESTY | 7 | "The best policy," according to a saying |
| 31% | GODS | 4 | "The Food of the ___ and How It Came to Earth," 1904 sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells |