| 100% | SIGHTUNSEEN | 11 | Not a good way to buy a car |
| 69% | AMOK | 4 | Not a good way to run |
| 64% | ASIS | 4 | Risky way to buy a used car |
| 55% | SEEN | 4 | A good way to feel |
| 55% | CALMLY | 6 | Best way to defuse a bomb |
| 53% | HUMBLEPIE | 9 | Not a good thing to have to eat |
| 53% | TEXT | 4 | Not a good thing to do while driving |
| 53% | LOAN | 4 | Money to buy a car, maybe |
| 53% | SIEVE | 5 | Not a good person to entrust with secrets, informally |
| 53% | ASLEEP | 6 | Not a good thing to be at the wheel |
| 52% | POORLY | 6 | Not in a good way |
| 52% | BADLY | 5 | Not in a good way |
| 52% | THEDOGS | 7 | Not a good thing to go to, in a phrase |
| 52% | THEFANTATRAYSALE | 16 | Best place to buy a platter of fruit-flavored sodas? |
| 52% | YESIAM | 6 | “That’s a good way to describe me” |
| 51% | USED | 4 | After 2004, the only way to buy a 14-Across |
| 50% | VENAL | 5 | Buyable, not in a good way |
| 50% | ABETS | 5 | Assists, but not in a good way |
| 50% | ABETS | 5 | Helps, but not in a good way |
| 50% | CASH | 4 | ___-and-carry (one way to buy goods) |
| 49% | LOUD | 4 | Very bright, but not in a good way |
| 48% | LICRISISFE | 10 | Reason to buy a sports car, for some, literally? |
| 48% | AJAR | 4 | Not closed all the way, as a car door |
| 48% | RIPE | 4 | Good enough to eat, in a way |
| 48% | NICESAVE | 8 | Sarcastic response to ". . . in a good way!" |
| 47% | HAS | 3 | "There ___ to be a better way!" |
| 47% | STOMACH | 7 | The best way to a man's heart goes through it |
| 46% | IACOCCA | 7 | "If you can find a better car, buy it" pitchman |
| 46% | SPIN | 4 | Decide not to solve or buy a vowel |
| 46% | ONEMPTY | 7 | Risky way for a car to be running |