| 100% | DESPERATELY | 11 | How to be "seeking susan" |
| 64% | HIDE | 4 | Prepare to be sought |
| 64% | HID | 3 | Prepared to be sought |
| 63% | HID | 3 | Waited to be sought, perhaps |
| 60% | MORAN | 5 | Caitlin who authored How to Be a Woman |
| 59% | NEEDY | 5 | To be constantly seeking attention or validation |
| 59% | EVENLY | 6 | How to divide things to be fair |
| 56% | FOLLOWTHELEADER | 15 | How to find what a creep is looking at? |
| 55% | ONE | 3 | How you might be referred to |
| 55% | EUROS | 5 | How change will come to Iberians |
| 55% | LOGICALLY | 9 | How Spock is said to speak |
| 55% | ALOUD | 5 | How storybooks are read to children |
| 55% | BRT | 3 | How to say I'll be right there, quickly via text |
| 54% | ALIKE | 5 | How great minds are said to think |
| 54% | LATE | 4 | How the fashionable are said to arrive |
| 54% | ONALEASH | 8 | How some puppies are trained to walk |
| 54% | ININK | 5 | How some letters to Santa are written |
| 54% | LINCOLNNE | 9 | How mail to some Cornhuskers is addressed |
| 53% | ALOUD | 5 | How bedtime stories are often read to children |
| 53% | ONACONTINUUM | 12 | How gender and sexuality are said to exist |
| 53% | LEARNEDTHEROPES | 15 | Was taught how to do something |
| 52% | WARTSANDALL | 11 | How one might be forced to accept a witch? |
| 52% | FATALLY | 7 | How flies are attracted to a Venus's flytrap |
| 52% | ONEPERCENT | 10 | How much of genius is inspiration, according to Edison |
| 52% | RED | 3 | How Harold Edward Grange is known to football fans |
| 52% | PRIMARYSCHOOL | 13 | Where to learn how to be nominated? |
| 52% | CONTRAST | 8 | Compare to show how different they are |
| 52% | MARJORIE | 8 | Hit single from 52-Across with the lyrics "I should've asked you how to be" |
| 52% | ALI | 3 | "How to Be Both" novelist Smith |
| 52% | ANTIRACIST | 10 | "How to Be an ___" (2019 bestseller) |