| 100% | OPEN | 4 | Like relationships where the partners don't have to be monogamous |
| 39% | IRAQ | 4 | Where the Noah's Ark story is thought to have occurred, today |
| 39% | ORK | 3 | Planet where the cry "Shazbot!" is said to have originated |
| 38% | OMAHA | 5 | Nebraska city where the Reuben is said to have been invented |
| 38% | RUDE | 4 | "You don't have to be a jerk about it!" |
| 38% | TAKE | 4 | "Don't have to always be right, let me ___ some of the punches" (lyric from a 2005 song) |
| 37% | OFFICEMAXIM | 11 | "You don't have to be busy to look busy," e.g.? |
| 37% | INTO | 4 | "You don't have to go ___ all the details" |
| 36% | BLAMEME | 7 | "You don't have to take responsibility for the mistake" |
| 36% | VARANASI | 8 | City on the Ganges where Buddha is said to have first preached |
| 36% | LISTEN | 6 | You don't have to face the music to do it |
| 36% | THESPADESOFJACK | 15 | "You don't have to be a gardener to dig this book about Kerouac's tools" |
| 35% | PALEPALSPASSLASSLESS | 20 | Friends who have never been to the beach don't walk by the girl so often |
| 35% | DEEP | 4 | Like water where your feet don't hit the bottom |
| 35% | ONS | 3 | Clip-___ (ties that don't have to be tied) |
| 35% | MUNICH | 6 | City in Germany where the beverage festival "Oktoberfest" was first held and has since continued to be held annually |
| 34% | ROW | 3 | You don't want to be in the last one |
| 34% | ALITTLEPATIENT | 14 | "You have to be ___," said the pediatrician |
| 34% | GREENER | 7 | Like the grass where you want to be? |
| 34% | AROUND | 6 | Where the worldly-wise have been |
| 33% | LIEN | 4 | Something people don't want to be on the house |
| 33% | ASEA | 4 | What landlubbers don't like to be |
| 33% | SHANE | 5 | Classic western hero who says "A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can't break the mold" |
| 33% | EAST | 4 | Where the Atlantic is, relative to North America |
| 33% | NEEDNOT | 7 | Don't have to |
| 33% | NEEDNT | 6 | Don't have to |
| 32% | TALENT | 6 | "Everyone has ___. What's rare is the courage to follow [it] to the dark places where it leads": Erica Jong |
| 32% | ETNA | 4 | Where the mythical Enceladus is supposed to be buried |
| 32% | EDEN | 4 | Where the first humans were, according to the Bible |
| 32% | GOBI | 4 | Where the Mongolian death worm is said to live |