| 100% | SIT | 3 | In winters, it feels quite nice to ___ close to the fireplace |
| 47% | SEL | 3 | Something it's quite polite to pass across the dinner table in Paris |
| 45% | SCARF | 5 | It can come up to your neck in the winter |
| 40% | LINEDRIVE | 9 | It flies close to the ground |
| 40% | SWEDEN | 6 | Country that was defeated in its bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics |
| 40% | VEST | 4 | It's kept close to the chest |
| 40% | UKULELE | 7 | It's played close to the chest |
| 40% | INSIDE | 6 | Close to the batter, in pitching terminology |
| 39% | TAILGATE | 8 | To drive too close to the car in front |
| 39% | ICARUS | 6 | In myth he flew too close to the sun |
| 39% | PERIHELION | 10 | *Point in a planet's orbit that's closest to the sun |
| 38% | ICARUS | 6 | He flew too close to the sun, in myth |
| 37% | EDGE | 4 | Get too close to the ___ (be in danger of falling) |
| 37% | ICARUS | 6 | He flew too close to the sun in Greek mythology |
| 37% | ROW | 3 | Front ___ (seat location closest to the stage in a theater) |
| 37% | SOUNDWAVE | 9 | It carries noises to the ears in oscillations |
| 37% | NHL | 3 | It first expanded to the US in 1924 |
| 37% | MIDOFF | 6 | In cricket, the fielding position on the off side closest to the bowler |
| 37% | ICARUS | 6 | Figure in Greek myth who flew too close to the sun |
| 37% | APOLLOSPACEPROGRAM | 18 | Men went to the moon in it |
| 37% | SKI | 3 | Equipment to enjoy the slopes in winter |
| 36% | ICARUS | 6 | Flew too close to the sun and fell in a Greek myth |
| 36% | THAW | 4 | To unfreeze something, or warm it slowly as in winter |
| 36% | KITCHEN | 7 | It connects to the Study via secret passage, in Clue |
| 36% | SUE | 3 | Islet in the Torres Strait of only about 4/10 sq. mi. where it may be quite easy to take the inhabitants (about 250) to court |
| 36% | NIP | 3 | It's in the winter air |
| 36% | SPECULATE | 9 | It can be risky to do this in the stock market |
| 36% | AMONG | 5 | "It's nice to be ___ friends" (in the company of) |
| 36% | STCROIX | 7 | Denmark sold it to the U.S. in 1917 |
| 36% | OLDSTYLE | 8 | In the way it used to be |