| 100% | OOMPH | 5 | Quality that makes something appealing |
| 72% | SECRETSAUCE | 11 | Unique quality that makes something successful |
| 55% | EGOS | 4 | Qualities that make deals difficult |
| 54% | COAL | 4 | Material that makes something carboniferous |
| 54% | ETTE | 4 | Extension that makes something smaller? |
| 52% | ESSENCE | 7 | Qualities that make up an entity; women's magazine |
| 51% | FEATURE | 7 | An aspect or detail that makes something different |
| 50% | SECRETSAUCE | 11 | Special ingredient, so to speak, that makes something successful |
| 49% | BONINESS | 8 | Supervisor + 9 = Quality that makes a fish hard to eat |
| 48% | MINUSSIGN | 9 | Something that makes a difference? |
| 47% | FACE | 4 | Something that's often made up |
| 47% | ENSURE | 6 | Make certain that something shall occur |
| 47% | SNOWANGEL | 9 | Something that's made lying down |
| 46% | VINTAGE | 7 | Something old that is of high quality |
| 46% | REMEDY | 6 | Something that makes you better when sick |
| 46% | AVAST | 5 | Something that makes stops on the ocean? |
| 46% | MANGE | 5 | Something that might make the fur fly? |
| 46% | EGG | 3 | Something that's cracked to make frittata |
| 46% | EYECONTACT | 10 | Something that good speakers make with audiences |
| 45% | BADSTART | 8 | Something that makes you want a do-over |
| 45% | SONG | 4 | Something that both Macklemore and Ryan Lewis make |
| 45% | EGG | 3 | Something that's broken to make an omelet |
| 45% | PDA | 3 | Something that may make people go "ick," for short |
| 45% | GIANTLEAP | 9 | Something that the Apollo 11 Commander made for mankind |
| 45% | AWL | 3 | Something that will really help you make a point |
| 42% | TINDER | 6 | App that makes matches, with a name that sounds like something lit with matches |
| 42% | SOIL | 4 | Make dirty, or something that may make a gardener's clothes dirty |
| 41% | PAPERTIGER | 10 | Toothless adversary (or something that can be made in 39-Down) |
| 40% | HEM | 3 | Something that's tailor-made |
| 40% | NERVE | 5 | Pinched ___ in your neck, something that'll definitely make you say "ouch!" |