| 100% | STAIN | 5 | Mark that's left by red wine spilled on carpet or clothing |
| 36% | STAINS | 6 | Marks left by sweat or wine, say |
| 33% | OOPS | 4 | "Oh dear, did I spill that glass of wine on your carpet?" |
| 30% | BRUISE | 6 | Injury that leaves a bluish-red mark on skin |
| 30% | STAINS | 6 | Marks left by spills |
| 29% | STAINED | 7 | Spilled red wine on, say |
| 29% | STAINS | 6 | Spills red wine on, say |
| 29% | WINESTAIN | 9 | Mark left by a spilled Bordeaux |
| 29% | STARS | 5 | Those interviewed on the red carpet |
| 29% | PINOTS | 6 | Wines that can be white or red |
| 29% | TEA | 3 | Leaves that might be red or read |
| 29% | PASSINGLANE | 11 | It's left on a highway ... or a path used by five answers in this puzzle? |
| 28% | DAB | 3 | "___ a wine spill on a carpet quickly and add salt to the area afterwards" |
| 28% | STAINS | 6 | Marks on clothes that don't come out |
| 28% | SCORCH | 6 | Mark left by an iron that is too hot |
| 28% | BRAND | 5 | Tool that leaves a mark on cattle |
| 27% | TRAILS | 6 | Slimy, silvery marks left on the ground by slugs |
| 27% | STAIN | 5 | What coffee or wine might leave on a rug |
| 27% | VAIN | 4 | Something that is fruitless or marked by futility, say |
| 26% | PINOT | 5 | Word that can precede "grigio" or "noir" on wine labels |
| 26% | LANE | 4 | Path on a road that is marked by street lines |
| 26% | MARSATTACKS | 11 | "___!," 1996 comic sci-fi film directed by Tim Burton, starring Pierce Brosnan which is based on spaceship that left Earth to return to the red planet: 2 wds. |
| 26% | STAIN | 5 | Red wine spill result |
| 26% | SIZE | 4 | What S, M, L, or XL indicates on a clothing tag |
| 26% | ISHEDEAD | 8 | 1898 play by Mark Twain that opened on Broadway in 2007 |
| 26% | SCUFF | 5 | Scratch on a shoe or a mark by scraping a surface |
| 26% | FRECKLE | 7 | A mark left by the sun on the skin |
| 26% | ETCH | 4 | Leave one's mark on |
| 26% | TURNOVERANEWLEAF | 16 | "___, and you'll go left or right on that bit of foliage" |
| 25% | WINE | 4 | "Red" or "white" beverage that you could gift your mom on Mother's Day |