| 100% | MOSSY | 5 | Like an old rock in a stream |
| 52% | OAKEN | 5 | Like a bucket in an old song |
| 52% | SEA | 3 | "The ___ was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli" ("Seinfeld" line) |
| 49% | WISE | 4 | Like an owl, in a simile |
| 49% | HEP | 3 | In like an old cat? |
| 49% | SCARLET | 7 | Like an A in literature |
| 49% | BENT | 4 | Like an arm in a sling |
| 49% | WISE | 4 | Like an owl in a simile |
| 48% | CROSSTHEROAD | 12 | Make like a chicken in an age-old joke |
| 48% | BENT | 4 | Like an arm in a shoulder sling |
| 48% | AFLOW | 5 | Like water in a stream |
| 47% | WORMY | 5 | Like an apple with a hole in it, perhaps |
| 47% | BRAY | 4 | Behave like an ass, in a way |
| 46% | ANITA | 5 | She's like an older sister to Maria in "West Side Story" |
| 46% | HAG | 3 | An old crone, usually a villain in a storybook |
| 46% | VOLUME | 6 | Single book in a series, like an encyclopedia |
| 46% | NAKED | 5 | Like a jaybird, in an idiom |
| 45% | SHOE | 4 | "There was an old woman who lived in a ___ ..." |
| 45% | WAS | 3 | "There ___ an old woman who lived in a shoe ..." |
| 45% | SHOE | 4 | Where an old woman lived, in a nursery rhyme |
| 45% | NEAT | 4 | In an orderly condition, like a cupboard |
| 45% | LAGOONAL | 8 | Like a shallow bay in an atoll |
| 45% | SHOE | 4 | Abode for an old woman in a popular nursery rhyme |
| 44% | NEAREST | 7 | Like a relative notified in an emergency, maybe |
| 44% | FLOW | 4 | Move like water in a stream |
| 44% | AIRLEAK | 7 | Wheezing laughter like an ___ in an old tire and deep blushing |
| 44% | OMEN | 4 | Like a raven or black cat in old lores |
| 44% | ATTACH | 6 | Include, like a file in an email |
| 42% | EVACUATE | 8 | Leave a building or place, like in an emergency |