| 100% | VARIETY | 7 | It's said to be the spice of life |
| 70% | IMITATION | 9 | It's said to be the sincerest form of flattery |
| 67% | BEAUTY | 6 | It's said to be in the eye of the beholder |
| 65% | FAILURE | 7 | It's said to be "the mother of success" |
| 64% | VARIETY | 7 | It is the spice of life, proverbially speaking |
| 64% | VARIETY | 7 | The spice of life, according to a saying |
| 61% | SANMARINO | 9 | It's said to be the world's oldest republic |
| 60% | HURLING | 7 | It's said to be the world's fastest field sport |
| 60% | TACT | 4 | It's said to be "the art of recognizing when to be big and when not to belittle" |
| 60% | WIT | 3 | Brevity is said to be the soul of it |
| 59% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be mightier than the sword |
| 59% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be "mightier than the sword" |
| 58% | WIT | 3 | Sarcasm is said to be the lowest form of it |
| 56% | POTOFGOLD | 9 | It is said to be hidden at the end of the rainbow |
| 56% | OTTER | 5 | It's said to have the thickest fur of any mammal |
| 56% | IOS | 3 | Island said to be the home of Homer's tomb |
| 55% | POT | 3 | Container that's said to be at the end of a rainbow |
| 53% | UTAH | 4 | Its name is said to mean "people of the mountains" |
| 53% | HORSEMEN | 8 | It's said four of these will bring the apocalypse |
| 53% | ORAL | 4 | Like a contract that's said to be "not worth the paper it's written on" |
| 52% | IDLE | 4 | Kind of hands said to be the devil's playthings |
| 52% | HAMMURABI | 9 | Babylonian King, said to be the first set of laws |
| 52% | NOOSE | 5 | The loop it's best to be out of |
| 52% | SHY | 3 | Like someone who's unlikely to be the life of the party |
| 52% | PUN | 3 | Wordplay that's said to be "the lowest form of humor" |
| 52% | BETHLEHEM | 9 | Town said to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ |
| 52% | SKY | 3 | It is said to be the limit |
| 51% | TIMING | 6 | It's said to be everything |
| 51% | SEAAIR | 6 | It's said to be salubrious |
| 51% | ELIXIR | 6 | "The ___ of Life," a drink that is said to cure all ills |