| 100% | LIVEUP | 6 | Meet, as expectations, with "to" |
| 66% | BUST | 4 | Word used with 6d to refer to a selected player who does not meet expectations |
| 65% | RISETO | 6 | Meet, as expectations |
| 65% | LIVEUPTO | 8 | Meet, as expectations |
| 59% | FALLSON | 7 | Meets with, as hard times |
| 59% | RISETO | 6 | Fully meet, as expectations (2 wds.) |
| 58% | COMEUPSHORT | 11 | Fail to meet expectations |
| 58% | FLOPPED | 7 | Failed to meet expectations |
| 58% | FALLSHORT | 9 | Fail to meet expectations |
| 58% | DISSATISFY | 10 | Fail to meet expectations |
| 58% | PRY | 3 | To ___ open, as with a crowbar |
| 57% | REJOIN | 6 | Meet up with again, as a group |
| 57% | OUST | 4 | To remove forcibly, as with a dictator |
| 57% | TAINT | 5 | To damage, as reputation (rhymes with "paint") |
| 57% | ATTENDS | 7 | Goes to, as a meeting |
| 56% | CEDE | 4 | To relinquish or give up, as with territory |
| 56% | PRY | 3 | To open something slightly, as with a crowbar |
| 56% | ATALOSS | 7 | With "for," unable to think of, as words |
| 56% | SEANCE | 6 | Meet-up to communicate with spirits |
| 56% | MALTY | 5 | Alternative to hoppy, as with beer |
| 56% | SKEW | 4 | Introduce bias to, as with data |
| 55% | ANDGREET | 8 | Meet __; opportunity to get a selfie with a singer |
| 55% | WAIVE | 5 | To forgo, as one's rights (rhymes with "brave") |
| 55% | DASH | 4 | Ruin, as with a person's expectations |
| 55% | ORAL | 4 | Pertaining to the mouth, as with health |
| 55% | UNZONED | 7 | Free to do with as one wishes |
| 55% | TAP | 3 | Connect to secretly, as with telephone lines |
| 55% | MASH | 4 | Reduce to a pulp, as with potato |
| 55% | ESCORTS | 7 | Goes with, as to a school dance |
| 55% | HEEDED | 6 | Listened to, as advice (rhymes with "needed") |