| 100% | HOST | 4 | One having an affair |
| 70% | CHEAT | 5 | Have an affair |
| 69% | CAUSER | 6 | One having an effect |
| 69% | FLAME | 5 | One in an affair |
| 65% | FIGURESKATER | 12 | One having an ice time at the Olympics? |
| 63% | IVA | 3 | ___ Archer, with whom Sam Spade had an affair |
| 63% | ANAISNIN | 8 | Diarist who had an affair with Henry Miller |
| 63% | LANCELOT | 8 | Arthurian Knight who had an affair with Guinevere |
| 62% | LYINEYES | 8 | 1975 Eagles hit about a woman having an affair |
| 62% | GEORGESAND | 10 | French novelist who had an affair with Frédéric Chopin |
| 62% | GUINEVERE | 9 | King Arthur's wife, had an affair with Lancelot |
| 62% | NAN | 3 | Britton who had an affair with Warren G. Harding |
| 61% | ADORE | 5 | Have an apple in one's eye |
| 61% | ODOR | 4 | Sulfur has an unpleasant one |
| 60% | CISGENDER | 9 | Having an identity matching one's birth sex |
| 60% | CHEAT | 5 | Have an ace up one's sleeve, maybe |
| 60% | GLEECLUB | 8 | Harvard has an all-male one |
| 60% | EGO | 3 | Celebrities may have an inflated one |
| 60% | POSE | 4 | "The Thinker" has an iconic one |
| 60% | EGO | 3 | You might have an inflated one |
| 60% | CAUSE | 5 | An activist has one |
| 60% | CELL | 4 | An amoeba has one |
| 59% | LAB | 3 | Type of class in which one has an assigned partner, often |
| 59% | LIGHTBULB | 9 | The bright thing that goes on when one has an idea |
| 59% | EGO | 3 | A narcissist may have an inflated one |
| 59% | EGO | 3 | A celebrity might have an inflated one |
| 59% | EGO | 3 | A prima donna has an inflated one |
| 59% | EGO | 3 | A celebrity may have an inflated one |
| 59% | ADVENTURE | 9 | Bill and Ted had an "Excellent" one |
| 59% | EGO | 3 | A superstar may have an inflated one |