| 100% | VAT | 3 | Large tub at the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory, e.g. |
| 48% | VAT | 3 | Large tub at a chocolate factory |
| 41% | OOMPA | 5 | ___-Loompa, Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory employee |
| 39% | GENE | 4 | ___ Wilder, actor who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 film adaptation of Roald Dahl's "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" |
| 38% | GENE | 4 | "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" actor ___ Wilder |
| 38% | VAT | 3 | Tub at a chocolate factory |
| 38% | VAT | 3 | Large tub in a chocolate factory |
| 36% | OOMPA | 5 | ___ Loompa (worker in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory) |
| 36% | GENE | 4 | Actor Wilder of "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" |
| 35% | GENE | 4 | Wilder who played Willy in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" |
| 35% | TICKET | 6 | "Golden" pass to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, in fiction |
| 35% | OOMPA | 5 | Start of a "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" song |
| 34% | GENEWILDER | 10 | "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" actor who played Frederick Frankenstein in "Young Frankenstein": 2 wds. |
| 33% | OOMPA | 5 | First "word" of a "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" song |
| 33% | PURE | 4 | "___ Imagination" (song from "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory") |
| 32% | WILLY | 5 | "___ Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" |
| 32% | AGOG | 4 | Watering at the mouth, e.g. |
| 32% | HOST | 4 | Hope at the Oscars, e.g. |
| 32% | PDA | 3 | Cuddling at the park, e.g. |
| 32% | LOWHIT | 6 | Tackle at the knees, e.g. |
| 32% | JACKALBERTSON | 13 | "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" actor who played "the Man" on the 1970s series "Chico and the Man": 2 wds. |
| 32% | ATOP | 4 | At the summit of a mountain, for e.g. |
| 32% | ATOP | 4 | At the peak of a mountain, for e.g. |
| 31% | BESIEGER | 8 | Santa Anna at the Alamo, e.g. |
| 31% | NONO | 4 | Slurping at the dinner table, e.g. |
| 31% | ALTER | 5 | Let out at the waist, e.g. |
| 31% | PARTER | 6 | Moses at the Red Sea, e.g. |
| 31% | ALIBI | 5 | "I was at the movies," e.g. |
| 31% | PDA | 3 | Kissing at the mall, e.g.: Abbr. |
| 31% | TOYMAKER | 8 | Elf at the North Pole, e.g. |