| 100% | PROMOTED | 8 | Person or team moved up from a lower position |
| 38% | ARISE | 5 | Come up from a seated position |
| 38% | GLASSCLIFF | 10 | Metaphor for a high-risk leadership position that may set a woman or nonbinary person up for failure |
| 38% | SCROLL | 6 | Move up or down a computer screen |
| 37% | FLED | 4 | Ran away from a place or person |
| 36% | PROMOTION | 9 | A move up to a higher position at a job |
| 36% | WHIMPER | 7 | A low crying sound made by a person or animal |
| 36% | CODESWITCH | 10 | Adjustment from a programmer ... or a bilingual person? |
| 36% | SNORT | 5 | Sound from a pig or a giggly person |
| 36% | ONME | 4 | Words from a person picking up the tab |
| 36% | ARAB | 4 | A person from Iraq or Dubai |
| 36% | COUGH | 5 | Hacking sound from a sick person or a smoker |
| 35% | IDIG | 4 | Quote from a hippie ... or from a 12-Across person? |
| 35% | TRIO | 4 | Three people, or three things make up a ___ |
| 35% | EVACUEE | 7 | Person moved from a dangerous area |
| 35% | VIBE | 4 | Energy you get from a place or person (rhymes with "tribe") |
| 35% | NEWBLOOD | 8 | People who have just joined a team or company |
| 35% | ESCALATOR | 9 | A moving staircase that carries people up and down |
| 34% | YOYO | 4 | Move up and down, like body weight or a toy on a string: Hyph. |
| 34% | UPGRADE | 7 | Move to first class from a lower price bracket |
| 33% | DETHRONE | 8 | Remove a king or queen from position of power |
| 33% | BRAZILIAN | 9 | Nationality of a person from Rio or Sao Paulo |
| 33% | HOMELAND | 8 | Where a person or group comes from |
| 33% | UNFURL | 6 | Open from a rolled-up position |
| 33% | STOPHIM | 7 | Cry from a stuck-up person? |
| 32% | AURA | 4 | A glow or energy that emanates from a person |
| 32% | PUSHOVER | 8 | Person or team easily beaten |
| 32% | SAP | 3 | Gullible person, or sticky stuff from a pine tree |
| 32% | ROB | 3 | Take or steal from a person by force |
| 31% | WHATCANIDO | 10 | Question from a helpful person (or a helpless one) |