| 100% | TEC | 3 | Private eye, in old lingo |
| 79% | TEC | 3 | Private eye, in old slang |
| 78% | TEC | 3 | Private eye, in old-timey slang |
| 78% | TEC | 3 | Private eye, in old crime novels |
| 63% | OATERS | 6 | Westerns, in old lingo |
| 63% | DIALED | 6 | Phoned, in old lingo |
| 63% | CAGER | 5 | Baller, in old lingo |
| 63% | HEP | 3 | Cool, in old lingo |
| 62% | COED | 4 | Campus lass, in old lingo |
| 62% | TUBMAN | 6 | Ranting preacher, in old lingo |
| 62% | OATER | 5 | Western flick, in old lingo |
| 62% | CAGER | 5 | Court player, in old lingo |
| 62% | COEDS | 5 | Sorority members, in old lingo |
| 62% | IRONHORSE | 9 | *Railroad engine, in old lingo |
| 62% | TMEN | 4 | Counterfeiter trackers, in old lingo |
| 62% | IRONHORSE | 9 | Steam locomotive, in old lingo |
| 62% | NEATO | 5 | "Very cool!," in old lingo |
| 61% | SPENSER | 7 | Private eye in dozens of novels |
| 61% | GUMSHOE | 7 | Private eye in a noir novel |
| 60% | IMHIP | 5 | "Gotcha," in old lingo |
| 60% | TECS | 4 | Private eyes, in slang |
| 59% | TMAN | 4 | Catcher of counterfeiters, in old lingo |
| 58% | COEDS | 5 | Sorority sisters, e.g., in old lingo |
| 57% | OBOE | 4 | "O" in old radio lingo |
| 57% | INDIANGIVER | 11 | One who takes things back, in old lingo |
| 57% | GUNN | 4 | Private eye Peter of old TV |
| 56% | SPENSER | 7 | First-nameless private eye in Robert B. Parker mysteries |
| 54% | CLEEK | 5 | One iron, in old golf lingo |
| 54% | PWNED | 5 | Totally wrecked, in old gamer lingo |
| 53% | OBOE | 4 | Letter before Peter in old radio lingo |