| 100% | HEIRAPPARENT | 12 | Next in line to a throne |
| 72% | HEIR | 4 | Next in line, as to the throne |
| 72% | HEIR | 4 | Person next in line for a throne |
| 69% | SUCCESSOR | 9 | Heir or next in line to the throne |
| 66% | ALONGSIDE | 9 | Next to, in a line with |
| 63% | HEIR | 4 | __ to the throne; next in line |
| 61% | HEIR | 4 | Next in line for the throne |
| 61% | HEIR | 4 | Next in line, to an estate |
| 59% | ELDEST | 6 | First in line to the throne |
| 59% | HEIR | 4 | First in line to the throne |
| 59% | HEIR | 4 | Next in line, in a way |
| 59% | HEIR | 4 | Next in line for a title? |
| 57% | BEATRICE | 8 | Ninth in line to the British throne |
| 57% | HEIRESS | 7 | Woman in line to inherit a fortune |
| 56% | HEIR | 4 | ___ to the throne (next in line) |
| 56% | NEWMAN | 6 | Cardinal __, Victorian in line to be a saint |
| 56% | HEDGING | 7 | Shrubbery grown in lines to outline a garden |
| 56% | PRINCEWILLIAM | 13 | Second in line to the British throne: 2 wds. |
| 56% | EUGENIE | 7 | Princess in line to the British throne after Beatrice |
| 55% | SEMI | 4 | Vehicle in line to use a highway weigh station |
| 55% | HEIRESS | 7 | Daughter next in line for a fortune |
| 55% | HEIR | 4 | ___ to the throne (prince who's next in line, say) |
| 54% | HEIR | 4 | ___ to the throne (next in line to be king, perhaps) |
| 54% | HEIRAPPARENT | 12 | One next in line for the throne |
| 54% | IINSIST | 7 | Response to a polite refusal / (next line) It's spelled out in a Tammy Wynette hit |
| 53% | DATE | 4 | Top line to fill in on a check |
| 53% | NUNNERY | 7 | "Get thee to a __", famous line in Hamlet |
| 52% | ANDREW | 6 | Sixth in line of succession to the British throne |
| 51% | NEXT | 4 | "He's ___ in line to the throne" |
| 51% | ASIDES | 6 | Lines spoken directly to the audience in a play |