| 100% | MITTY | 5 | James Thurber's Walter with a "Secret Life" |
| 48% | THURBER | 7 | "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" writer James |
| 47% | PETS | 4 | "The Secret Life of ___" (animated film with a 2019 sequel) |
| 42% | CONFIDE | 7 | Entrust with a secret |
| 42% | THURBER | 7 | James who wrote "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" |
| 41% | SPY | 3 | One with a secret mission |
| 41% | BIGMAC | 6 | Product with a secret sauce |
| 41% | CONFIDING | 9 | Trusting someone with a secret |
| 41% | DRPEPPER | 8 | Brand with a secret formula |
| 41% | SPY | 3 | One with a secret identity |
| 41% | DEXTER | 6 | Boy genius with a secret laboratory |
| 41% | WAYNEMANOR | 10 | Fictional home with a secret basement |
| 41% | WAYNEMANOR | 10 | Fictional estate with a secret cave |
| 39% | LOUNGE | 6 | Room with a secret passage to the Conservatory |
| 39% | LETINON | 7 | Share a secret with |
| 39% | STUDY | 5 | Clue room with a secret passage to the kitchen |
| 39% | MITTY | 5 | "The Secret Life of Walter ___" |
| 39% | MITTY | 5 | "The Secret Life of Walter __" |
| 38% | LOUNGE | 6 | Room in Clue with a secret passage to the Conservatory |
| 38% | ANNIE | 5 | Musical with the song "It's a Hard Knock Life" |
| 38% | NACHOLIBRE | 10 | Jack Black comedy about a cook with a secret life as a wrestler in Mexico (2 wds.) |
| 38% | OSCARWAO | 8 | Novel title character with a "brief, wondrous life" |
| 38% | PILGRIM | 7 | Scott __; bass player with a Precious Little Life |
| 38% | LETSINON | 8 | Shares a secret with (3 wds.) |
| 38% | BIBLE | 5 | Book with a King James Version |
| 38% | CASABA | 6 | Melon with a long shelf life |
| 38% | FAD | 3 | Trend with a short shelf life |
| 38% | PALM | 4 | Body part with a life line |
| 37% | ELI | 3 | Country singer Mike who's in a band with James Young |
| 37% | BEES | 4 | Insects with "secret lives," per a Sue Monk Kidd title |