| 100% | RAINING | 7 | It's __ it's pouring/The old man is snoring |
| 100% | RAINING | 7 | It's __, it's pouring, the old man is snoring |
| 89% | POURING | 7 | It's raining, it's __, the old man is snoring |
| 77% | SNORING | 7 | It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is __ |
| 53% | SANMARINO | 9 | It's said to be the world's oldest republic |
| 51% | OPERA | 5 | Of all the noises known to man, it is the most expensive, per an old quip |
| 50% | AJAR | 4 | "When it's ___" (answer to the old riddle "When is a door not a door?") |
| 49% | TUX | 3 | The best man may be in it |
| 49% | BEHINDBLUEEYES | 14 | 1971 hit from the Who that begins "No one knows what it's like to be the bad man" |
| 49% | NOONE | 5 | Who "knows what it's like to be the bad man," according to a 1971 hit by the Who |
| 47% | STORY | 5 | The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest known to man |
| 46% | OLEG | 4 | Man's name that becomes a toy when its first letter is moved to the end |
| 46% | VERB | 4 | What "man" actually is in the sentence "The old man the boat" |
| 46% | PDT | 3 | S.F. is on it in the summer |
| 44% | HOME | 4 | It's where the heart is |
| 44% | CHEST | 5 | It's where the heart is |
| 44% | HEMINGWAY | 9 | Ernest ___, American novelist who is famous for his novel "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| 44% | ROGETS | 6 | Its origin story is told in The Man Who Made Lists |
| 44% | EROICABONAPARTE | 15 | Beethoven Symphony and the man it was linked to |
| 44% | ONEPIN | 6 | It's often the first to be knocked over |
| 44% | OED | 3 | It's 2021 word of the year was "vax" |
| 44% | NORMA | 5 | Woman's name that becomes a man's name when its first letter is added to the end |
| 43% | TREES | 5 | According to the poet's oldest son, it was written "by a window looking down a wooded hill" |
| 43% | SEA | 3 | Hemingway's "The Old Man and the ___" |
| 43% | CRIB | 4 | It's the place to be, baby! |
| 43% | POPPA | 5 | The old man |
| 43% | POPS | 4 | The old man |
| 43% | DAD | 3 | The old man |
| 43% | PAPA | 4 | The old man |
| 43% | POP | 3 | The old man |