| 100% | MISSUSA | 7 | Most beautiful contest |
| 62% | LOVELIER | 8 | More beautiful |
| 61% | BELLE | 5 | Most beautiful girl |
| 57% | ADORN | 5 | Make more beautiful |
| 55% | CHARLIERICH | 11 | "The Most Beautiful Girl" singer |
| 54% | SUPERBOWLS | 10 | Much-hyped contests |
| 54% | GEODE | 5 | It's most beautiful when broken |
| 53% | GRACE | 5 | "___ is more beautiful than beauty": Emerson |
| 53% | SKEET | 5 | Contest with many traps |
| 53% | SPACERACE | 9 | Contest with many missions |
| 52% | ADORN | 5 | Make something more beautiful by embellishing it |
| 52% | ADORN | 5 | To embellish or to make more beautiful |
| 51% | ILSA | 4 | "The most beautiful woman ever to visit Casablanca" |
| 51% | HELEN | 5 | ___ of Troy, the most beautiful woman ever born |
| 51% | ILSA | 4 | “The most beautiful woman ever to visit Casablanca” |
| 51% | ART | 3 | "The most beautiful of all lies," per Debussy |
| 51% | ART | 3 | "The most beautiful deception of all," per Debussy |
| 50% | BUDDINGAUT | 10 | Many a short-story contest entrant |
| 49% | VIEWS | 5 | Many climb mountains for these beautiful sights |
| 48% | JAGUARXKE | 9 | *Enzo Ferrari called it "the most beautiful car ever made" |
| 48% | BTS | 3 | "Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)" K-pop band |
| 48% | UGLIER | 6 | More likely to win a holiday sweater contest |
| 47% | PIE | 3 | Intake in many an eating contest |
| 47% | MARIA | 5 | 1957 song that begins "The most beautiful sound I ever heard …" |
| 47% | MARIA | 5 | Show tune that begins, "The most beautiful sound I ever heard" |
| 47% | ADELE | 5 | "Hello" singer named one of People's Most Beautiful for 2017 |
| 47% | MARIA | 5 | Broadway song that begins, "The most beautiful sound I ever heard" |
| 46% | TROY | 4 | Helen of ___ (the most beautiful woman in the world, in Greek mythology) |
| 45% | CASSIOPEIA | 10 | Vain queen who boasted that she was more beautiful than 18-Across |
| 44% | KEKE | 4 | "Scream Queens" actress ___ Palmer named one of People's Most Beautiful for 2017 |