| 100% | ARREARS | 7 | Payments that are still owed |
| 54% | GETSSQUAREWITH | 14 | Pays all that is owed |
| 51% | CHECKS | 6 | Payments that need to be endorsed |
| 51% | TAXES | 5 | Payments that might be e-filed |
| 51% | CHECK | 5 | Payment that has to be endorsed |
| 50% | RENT | 4 | Payment that might be withheld by strikers |
| 50% | TAX | 3 | Payment that can be "flat" or "progressive" |
| 50% | APOLOGY | 7 | Words that may be owed |
| 49% | PAYBACK | 7 | Give someone money that is owed |
| 48% | DEBT | 4 | The amount that is owed to someone |
| 48% | WOMANSDAY | 9 | *One of the four Seven Sisters magazines that are still in print |
| 47% | MIC | 3 | Hot ___ (audio device that is unexpectedly still active) |
| 46% | DODGEBALL | 9 | Sport that was in Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller film |
| 46% | IOU | 3 | A document that is used as proof of money owed |
| 43% | MOHICANS | 8 | Group whose name means "the people of the waters that are never still" |
| 43% | EVIL | 4 | Necessary ___ (something unpleasant that still needs to be done) |
| 43% | CDS | 3 | Vinyl alternatives (that are still retro): Abbr. |
| 42% | LEGALFORCE | 10 | What a law that hasn't been repealed still has |
| 41% | BETA | 4 | Software version that's still being tested |
| 41% | BETAS | 5 | Software releases that might still be buggy |
| 40% | OUR | 3 | "...that __ flag was still there" |
| 40% | BLUE | 4 | Pepsi ___, berry-flavored soft drink that was discontinued in 2004 but is still available in the Philippines |
| 40% | ALIVE | 5 | "Herman Wouk Is Still ___," short story by Stephen King that won the Bram Stoker Award in 2012 |
| 39% | YAP | 3 | Pacific Ocean island group where important payments may still be "written in stone" |
| 39% | ROTUND | 6 | Word for “plump” that, when its third letter is removed, still means “plump” |
| 39% | UNPAID | 6 | Still owed |
| 39% | DOGGETT | 7 | Thomas —, Irish actor; founder of a sculling prize in 1715 that is still competed for on the River Thames on August 1 |
| 39% | SHY | 3 | Still owing |
| 39% | UNPAID | 6 | Still owing |
| 39% | IDLED | 5 | Was still |