| 100% | LOL | 3 | Letters sometimes followed by :D |
| 62% | RINSE | 5 | Instruction sometimes followed by "repeat" |
| 62% | NICEIDEA | 8 | Feedback sometimes followed by "but" |
| 61% | GRR | 3 | Sound sometimes followed by an attack |
| 61% | MAITRE | 6 | Servers' boss, when followed by d' |
| 60% | OHTHAT | 6 | Words sometimes followed by "It's nothing" |
| 60% | ILIED | 5 | Words sometimes followed by "So sue me" |
| 59% | LGBT | 4 | Letters often followed by QIA |
| 59% | HTTP | 4 | Letters often followed by “S” |
| 59% | TEXTME | 6 | Request sometimes followed by "when you get home" |
| 58% | IOU | 3 | Letters often followed by a number |
| 58% | LETSKEEPINTOUCH | 15 | Words followed by letters? |
| 56% | AEIOU | 5 | Quintet followed by "... and sometimes Y" |
| 56% | LGBT | 4 | Letters followed by QIA+ |
| 55% | UNLESS | 6 | Word sometimes followed, mysteriously, by an ellipsis |
| 55% | ATTN | 4 | Letters followed by a colon |
| 55% | ZETA | 4 | Letter followed by two rhymes |
| 51% | REESES | 6 | With 41-Down, composition of a trail followed by [circled letters] |
| 48% | MADAM | 5 | Title sometimes shortened by removing its middle letter |
| 47% | EFG | 3 | Letters that follow "D" |
| 47% | LGBT | 4 | Letters that may be followed by QIA2S+ |
| 45% | COMEHERE | 8 | Command sometimes shortened by removing its second, fourth, and fifth letters |
| 45% | WOOHOO | 6 | Exclamation that might be followed by "D'oh!" on "The Simpsons" |
| 44% | KER | 3 | Letters that can be followed by plunk, fuffle or flooey |
| 41% | RIP | 3 | Letters sometimes inscribed above a name |
| 41% | TEN | 3 | One followed by nothing? |
| 41% | MARCO | 5 | Call followed by "Polo!" |
| 41% | TICKS | 5 | Sounds followed by tocks |
| 41% | NHL | 3 | Org. followed by "puckheads" |
| 41% | STOCKMARKETINDEX | 16 | Stat followed by investors |