| 100% | CLERIHEW | 8 | Light verse of two rhyming couplets about a person |
| 46% | CLERIHEW | 8 | Rhyming couplets that talk of a famous person |
| 37% | COCHAIR | 7 | One of two people leading a committee |
| 36% | BELIEFS | 7 | Convictions a person has about the meaning of life |
| 36% | BIGBICBIZBIO | 12 | Major book about a leader of the lighter industry? |
| 36% | COUPLET | 7 | Two lines of verse in a poem |
| 35% | DOSSIER | 7 | File of documents about a person |
| 35% | LITER | 5 | About two-thirds of a 7-Eleven Double Gulp |
| 34% | SOMEPEOPLELIKETOICEIT | 21 | Start of a verse about holiday fruitcake |
| 34% | POET | 4 | Person concerned with rhyme quite a bit of the time |
| 34% | WHENADENTIST | 12 | Start of a punny quip about two professionals |
| 34% | ANA | 3 | Collection of anecdotes about a person or place |
| 33% | BAABAA | 6 | Start of a nursery rhyme about bags of wool |
| 33% | OWLS | 4 | Two residents of the Old Man's beard, in a Lear verse |
| 33% | HUMPTYDUMPTY | 12 | Nursery rhyme about the perils of sitting on a wall |
| 33% | THESTAND | 8 | Stephen King novel about a group of people who survive a worldwide pandemic: 2 wds. |
| 33% | HOI | 3 | First part of a two-word rhyming term for "the masses" |
| 32% | ASFAR | 5 | "I trust him about ___ ..." (start of a leery person's statement) |
| 32% | HYPEFEET | 8 | MC Hammer has a "mind to rhyme" and two of these |
| 32% | EARPLUG | 7 | One of two sound recommendations for a light sleeper? |
| 32% | THEROADNOTTAKEN | 15 | 1916 Frost verse ... or, diverged: Start of a saying about meaning well |
| 32% | DARKEST | 7 | "The ___ Hour," 2011 film starring Emile Hirsch about a group of people caught in an alien invasion |
| 31% | ANA | 3 | Gossip about a person |
| 31% | BIOGRAPHY | 9 | Book about a person |
| 31% | EENY | 4 | Start of a rhyme about a tiger |
| 31% | AURA | 4 | Distinctive glow about a person |
| 31% | REPUTE | 6 | Opinion held about a person |
| 31% | HEYDIDDLEDIDDLE | 15 | First line of a nursery rhyme about the cow that jumped over the moon |
| 30% | BIOGRAPHY | 9 | Story about a person's life |
| 30% | BIOPIC | 6 | Film about a person’s life |