| 100% | EBAY | 4 | Rare success story from the dot-com bubble |
| 48% | EBAY | 4 | Major success of the dot-com bubble |
| 43% | MIDNINETIES | 11 | When the dot-com bubble began |
| 40% | TALES | 5 | Stories from the Grimms |
| 39% | MYTH | 4 | Story from the ancient Greeks, perhaps |
| 38% | PARABLE | 7 | Moral story from the Bible |
| 38% | ALIBI | 5 | Cover story from the accused |
| 38% | PARABLES | 8 | Moral stories from the Bible |
| 36% | OLD | 3 | From the past, as a story |
| 34% | HUMBLEBEGINNINGS | 16 | What a local success story comes from |
| 34% | STREET | 6 | Jim Cramer's dot com with The |
| 34% | BULLSEYE | 8 | The horse from Toy Story |
| 34% | TARRYPIN | 8 | Uncle Remus' turtle from the Br'er stories |
| 33% | WOODY | 5 | Animated cowboy character from the Pixar movie "Toy Story" |
| 32% | GEM | 3 | The —, British story paper published from 1907-39 |
| 32% | OCONNOR | 7 | Retired justice who wrote "Out of Order: Stories From the History of the Supreme Court" |
| 32% | DYLAN | 5 | Actor McDermott from the first two seasons of "American Horror Story" |
| 32% | JESSIE | 6 | The cowgirl from the Toy Story franchise |
| 31% | BEYOND | 6 | "To infinity... and ___!", catchphrase for Buzz Lightyear from the "Toy Story" series |
| 31% | IROBOT | 6 | Classic collection from the magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction |
| 31% | ELLIPSIS | 8 | The omission of words from a text, shown by dots |
| 31% | THEEAGLE | 8 | "Eddie __," the rare Olympic ski jumper from UK |
| 30% | OUTLIERS | 8 | "___: The Story of Success," non-fiction book by Malcolm Gladwell |
| 30% | AOL | 3 | Dot-com bubble beneficiary (for a while) |
| 30% | FLASHBACK | 9 | A book scene from before the start of the story |
| 29% | BUZZLIGHTYEAR | 13 | Space ranger from the "Toy Story" movies who is "catching some Z's": 2 wds. |
| 29% | BOYSROUNDHERE | 13 | Blake Shelton hit single from the 2013 album "Based on a True Story... " (3 wds.) |
| 29% | GEYSER | 6 | 15-Across song with the lyric "Feel it bubbling from below" |
| 29% | MEANS | 5 | "What It ___ When a Man Falls from the Sky" (short story collection by Lesley Nneka Arimah) |
| 29% | IRENE | 5 | ___ Adler, iconic character from the Sherlock Holmes stories who was played by Lara Pulver on screen |