| 100% | SLEEPTIGHT | 10 | Lead-in to "Don't let the bedbugs bite!" |
| 69% | NIGHTYNIGHT | 11 | "Don't let the bedbugs bite!" |
| 56% | BITE | 4 | "Don't let the bedbugs ___" |
| 51% | KEEPCOOL | 8 | "Don't let the heat get to you!" |
| 51% | HATERSGONNAHATE | 15 | “Don’t let the critics get to you” |
| 50% | ROW | 3 | You don't want to be in the last one |
| 49% | OTTER | 5 | Lead-in to hound, in the canine world |
| 47% | ROADS | 5 | "Where we're going, we don't need ___" (last line in "Back to the Future") |
| 47% | PHONO | 5 | Lead-in to “graph,” in the early days of audio recording |
| 47% | AUTO | 4 | Lead-in to straddle, in the name of an online magazine |
| 46% | OLDS | 4 | Onetime lead-in to "mobile" in the auto world |
| 46% | TRILLIAN | 8 | Female lead in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| 46% | YOURFEET | 8 | Don't let the grass grow under __ |
| 45% | MUCH | 4 | "That Don't Impress Me ___," 1998 song by Shania Twain that refers to Brad Pitt in the lyrics |
| 45% | OPENER | 6 | Lead-in to the headliner |
| 44% | GODOWN | 6 | Don't Let the Sun __ on Me, Elton John single |
| 44% | ORR | 3 | Only defenseman to lead the NHL in points |
| 44% | ONCE | 4 | Lead-in to bitten or removed |
| 44% | LACKOFEELING | 12 | What pollution in the Sargasso Sea may lead to? |
| 44% | FLATTIRE | 8 | What a fork in the road might lead to? |
| 43% | MODEL | 5 | Lead-in to T, A or X |
| 43% | LUFT | 4 | Lead-in to the largest German airline |
| 43% | HADTHECODENAMECROSSWORD | 23 | Negotiations leading to the surrender of German troops in Italy _____ |
| 43% | DEMO | 4 | Lead-in to "gorgon" and "bats" to refer to the predatory humanoid creatures seen in "Stranger Things" |
| 43% | IFEAR | 5 | Lead-in to a bit of bad news |
| 43% | ALAS | 4 | Lead-in to a bit of sad news |
| 43% | ERE | 3 | In the time leading up to |
| 42% | LEAN | 4 | "___ In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" (bestseller by Sheryl Sandberg) |
| 42% | DERMA | 5 | Lead-in to the names of some skin products |