| 100% | ADAM | 4 | Man without parents |
| 64% | ORPHAN | 6 | Child without parents |
| 60% | CHURL | 5 | Man without manners |
| 56% | STAGS | 5 | Men without dates, at a ball |
| 56% | TOA | 3 | __ man; without exception |
| 56% | HATS | 4 | 1980s band Men Without ___ |
| 55% | STAG | 4 | Man without a date, at a party |
| 55% | NOLAN | 5 | The Man Without a Country |
| 55% | AFACE | 5 | "The Man Without ___" (1993 film) |
| 55% | STARKNAKED | 10 | Iron Man without any clothes? |
| 55% | AESOP | 5 | Hardly a man without morals |
| 54% | NOLAN | 5 | "The Man Without a Country" man |
| 54% | ORPHANAGE | 9 | A home for children without parents |
| 53% | COMMAND | 7 | Order from naval man without hesitation |
| 51% | SON | 3 | Man in relation to both parents |
| 49% | NATURAL | 7 | Occurs without man-made assistance |
| 48% | SMILING | 7 | A man without a __ face must not open a shop |
| 48% | MUSIL | 5 | Robert —, Austrian author of unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities |
| 48% | SENOR | 5 | Spanish salutation for a man, without the tilde |
| 48% | ELOPE | 5 | Act without the parents' blessings, say |
| 47% | COMMANDO | 8 | Slang for man going without underwear |
| 47% | JOECHILL | 8 | Man responsible for the loss of Batman's parents |
| 45% | MASHA | 5 | Gessen who wrote the 2012 Putin biography "The Man Without a Face" |
| 44% | DATENIGHT | 9 | When parents go out in the evening, without kids |
| 41% | NORM | 4 | Christie novel title that, without spaces, is a man's name |
| 37% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who wrote, "No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind" |
| 34% | SMEE | 4 | Barrie's "man who stabbed without offence" |
| 34% | TONE | 4 | "Watch your ___, young man" (parent's warning) |
| 33% | ADOPTERS | 8 | Some new parents |
| 33% | IMPS | 4 | Problems for parents |