| 100% | SUE | 3 | Not let bygones be bygones, say |
| 62% | FORGIVE | 7 | Let bygones be bygones |
| 62% | FORGIVEANDFORGET | 16 | Let bygones be bygones |
| 62% | FORGIVING | 9 | Letting bygones be bygones |
| 60% | FORGIVE | 7 | Let bygones be bygones, __ and forget |
| 57% | ROGET | 5 | Author who wouldn't let bygones be bygones? |
| 52% | LIEFLAT | 7 | Not be rumpled, say |
| 52% | OWE | 3 | Not be square, say |
| 52% | UNTAPPED | 8 | Not being utilized, say |
| 51% | OWE | 3 | Not be squared up, say |
| 51% | POUNCE | 6 | Not let a big opportunity slip by, say |
| 51% | SHUN | 4 | Not let in the cool kids group, say |
| 51% | LIE | 3 | Say A is not A, say |
| 50% | SANER | 5 | Not being such a daredevil, say |
| 49% | BLUFFS | 6 | Hopes not to be called, say |
| 48% | IAGO | 4 | Villain who says "I am not what I am" |
| 48% | LISP | 4 | Not be able to say "say," say |
| 48% | MUTED | 5 | So as not to be overheard, say |
| 47% | IAGO | 4 | Shakespearean character who says "I am not what I am" |
| 47% | POISONIVY | 9 | Subject of the saying "Leaves of three, let it be" |
| 47% | MIMEDIRECTIVE | 13 | "You will not talk during your show," say? |
| 47% | APOEM | 5 | MacLiesh said it "should not mean / But be" |
| 47% | DENYING | 7 | Saying and asserting that something is not true |
| 46% | SEEN | 4 | What children should be (but not heard), they say |
| 46% | OFF | 3 | When the power is not on, say |
| 46% | KINGLEAR | 8 | “O, let me not be mad” speaker |
| 46% | REBUTTAL | 8 | A statement saying something is not true |
| 46% | REASON | 6 | "Because I said so" is not one |
| 45% | GOD | 3 | "And ___ said, Let there be light" (line from the Book of Genesis) |
| 45% | TABOOS | 6 | Things that are forbidden, not acceptable to say |