| 100% | LOWC | 4 | Note played by covering every hole on a recorder |
| 37% | CHORDS | 6 | Sets of notes played on a guitar |
| 36% | TUG | 3 | ___ of war (game played by pulling on a rope) |
| 35% | PATCHING | 8 | Sewing on a piece of material to cover a hole |
| 35% | LOIS | 4 | Title reporter played by Elizabeth on a 2020s CW series |
| 35% | BARBEROFSEVILLE | 15 | Opera based on a play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with "The" |
| 35% | ELSA | 4 | "Frozen" character played by Georgina Haig on "Once Upon a Time" |
| 35% | ALAN | 4 | Brother played by Jon Cryer on "Two and a Half Men" |
| 35% | ELSA | 4 | Disney character played by Georgina Haig on "Once Upon a Time" |
| 35% | SUPERGIRL | 9 | Heroine from Krypton played by Melissa Benoist on a CW series |
| 34% | ONEUPON | 7 | Beating by a hole, in match play |
| 34% | HERB | 4 | Doctor Melnick played by Ryan Stiles on "Two and a Half Men" |
| 34% | ALAN | 4 | ___ Harper, character played by Jon Cryer on "Two and a Half Men" |
| 34% | JACKIEPEYTON | 12 | Nurse played by Edie Falco on a Showtime medical drama (2 wds.) |
| 34% | BABARACUS | 9 | Role played by Mr. T on "The A-Team" |
| 34% | ROPE | 4 | 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film thriller based on a stage play by Patrick Hamilton |
| 33% | RICHARDCASTLE | 13 | Sleuthing mystery writer played by Nathan Fillion on a current TV series: 2 wds. |
| 33% | AMYFISHER | 9 | Role played by Drew Barrymore in a 1993 TV movie based on real life |
| 33% | SWITCHPLATE | 11 | Covering around an on-off device with a rectangular hole |
| 32% | PORKSODA | 8 | Primus album with a pig surrounded by bubbles on its cover |
| 32% | LARONDE | 7 | 1964 Roger Vadim film drama starring Jane Fonda based on a stage play by Arthur Schnitzler |
| 32% | STONES | 6 | Notes played by second band |
| 32% | CUP | 3 | Hole on a golf green |
| 32% | ARAISININTHESUN | 15 | First play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway |
| 32% | EPEE | 4 | Sport played on a 6-foot by 40-foot strip |
| 32% | BUSSYDAMBOIS | 12 | Jacobean stage play by George Chapman whose title character is based on a 16th-century French nobleman |
| 31% | COWBOYS | 7 | Dallas ___, the team which has been playing a match on every Thanksgiving Day |
| 31% | PHRYNEFISHER | 12 | 1920s private detective in Melbourne played by Essie Davis on a 2012-2015 Australian TV series (2 wds.) |