| 100% | OBIT | 4 | News item often written in advance |
| 100% | OBITS | 5 | News items often written in advance |
| 90% | OBIT | 4 | News item often written years in advance |
| 90% | OBITS | 5 | News items often written years in advance |
| 52% | OBIT | 4 | News item that often has a person's age in the headline |
| 45% | DELE | 4 | Word often written in red |
| 45% | OPEN | 4 | Word often written in neon |
| 45% | RIP | 3 | It's often written in stone |
| 45% | EPITAPH | 7 | It's often written in stone |
| 45% | SOS | 3 | Message often written in large letters |
| 45% | CAPS | 4 | What shouting is often written in |
| 45% | TAG | 3 | "Signature" often written in spray paint |
| 44% | ITALS | 5 | Titles are often written in them, briefly |
| 44% | ODES | 4 | Poems often written in the second person |
| 44% | SCANDALS | 8 | Campaign-wrecking news items, often |
| 43% | OBIT | 4 | Newspaper piece that might be written in advance |
| 43% | HALOS | 5 | Items often done in gold leaf |
| 43% | MENUS | 5 | Items often stuck in apartment doors |
| 42% | JOHNMILTON | 10 | Blind poet who often wrote in an ancient language |
| 42% | NAAN | 4 | Item often served for breakfast in Burma |
| 42% | BRUSHES | 7 | Items often used in front of mirrors |
| 42% | KITE | 4 | Item often "eaten" by a tree in "Peanuts" |
| 41% | SCRIPTED | 8 | Like a TV show whose lines are all written in advance |
| 41% | JUSTARRIVED | 11 | Label for new items in a store |
| 41% | RELIC | 5 | Item in a museum, often |
| 40% | MFA | 3 | Advanced degree in creative writing |
| 40% | ADAPTATION | 10 | Written work in a new form |
| 40% | ENTRIES | 7 | Items written in an account book |
| 40% | TEACOSY | 7 | Often-decorative kitchen item, in Britain |
| 40% | GYRO | 4 | Food item often wrapped in foil |