| 100% | MEANDER | 7 | Not go the direct route |
| 56% | ARCS | 4 | Not the most direct routes from point to point |
| 55% | MADEABEELINEFOR | 15 | Took the direct route |
| 52% | INBREED | 7 | Not go outside the family |
| 52% | ATANCHOR | 8 | Not going with the flow? |
| 52% | STREETSMART | 11 | Not going by the book? |
| 46% | ATANCHOR | 8 | Not likely to go with the flow |
| 46% | ALT | 3 | Not the main route: Abbr. |
| 45% | CHECKED | 7 | Not carry-on baggage, goes under the plane |
| 45% | INDIRECT | 8 | Not the shortest route, not straight there |
| 44% | OFFCOURSE | 9 | Astray, not following the planned route |
| 44% | SCENIC | 6 | Take the ___ route (drive a less direct path) |
| 44% | REDTIDE | 7 | Reason not to go swimming in the ocean |
| 44% | ALA | 3 | It goes before the carte, not the horse |
| 43% | MISSED | 6 | Did not hit, went wide of the mark |
| 42% | NAVIGATOR | 9 | Person who directs the route or course of a ship |
| 42% | RETRACE | 7 | Go back over the same route |
| 41% | THOMAS | 6 | ___ Keller, celebrity chef who did not go to culinary school and learned on the job |
| 41% | NAVIGATOR | 9 | A person who directs the route or course of a ship |
| 41% | APTED | 5 | Michael who directed the Bond film "The World Is Not Enough" |
| 40% | TRUANCY | 7 | The act of purposefully not going to school |
| 39% | BLUNTNESS | 9 | Quality of being straightforward and direct, not caring for the feelings of another |
| 39% | BEELINE | 7 | Direct route |
| 39% | HAMLET | 6 | Source of the line "Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go" |
| 39% | ILL | 3 | "How Far ___ Go" (Alessia Cara song that's not the MMMM red herring) |
| 39% | ASPHALT | 7 | Road surface (but not when your butt goes over the baseline while serving) |
| 39% | BEELINES | 8 | Direct routes |
| 39% | STAY | 4 | Not go |
| 39% | MEANDERED | 9 | Took a less direct route |
| 38% | AWRY | 4 | Gone ___ (not on the right track) |