| 100% | BACKSPACE | 9 | Return a letter, say |
| 70% | RECEIVE | 7 | Get a letter, say |
| 70% | SEND | 4 | Post a letter, say |
| 70% | WROTE | 5 | Penned a letter, say |
| 70% | WROTE | 5 | Composed a letter, say |
| 70% | MAIL | 4 | Post a letter, say |
| 66% | TGIF | 4 | Letters said with a shout |
| 64% | ZIP | 3 | ___ code (postal code on a letter, say) |
| 63% | WROTEHOME | 9 | Sent a letter from camp, say |
| 63% | DICTATE | 7 | Say a letter, maybe? |
| 62% | TYPED | 5 | Wrote a letter using a keyboard, say |
| 62% | SLITOPEN | 8 | Prepare to remove a letter from, say |
| 62% | IRS | 3 | Letters in a return address? |
| 62% | SPELL | 5 | Say a word's letters |
| 62% | NSF | 3 | Letters on a returned check |
| 57% | TBD | 3 | Uncertain letters on a TV schedule, say |
| 57% | ERASES | 6 | Removes a wrong letter, say |
| 55% | ENDSIT | 6 | Writes a Dear John letter, say |
| 55% | ENDINGIT | 8 | Writing a "Dear John" letter, say |
| 55% | ENDIT | 5 | Write a Dear John letter, say |
| 55% | ENDSIT | 6 | Sends a Dear John letter, say |
| 54% | ECHO | 4 | Sound returned from a mountain, say |
| 54% | ETCH | 4 | Inscribe lettering on a trophy, say |
| 54% | DUE | 3 | ___ date (date for the return of a library book, say) |
| 54% | SAS | 3 | Letters on the side of a plane from Beijing to Oslo, say |
| 54% | SIGN | 4 | Use a closed fist to represent the letter S, say |
| 53% | LOSTART | 7 | Letter writing, they say ... or a hint to eight answers in this puzzle |
| 52% | SWORE | 5 | Said a four-letter word |
| 51% | AREYOUHURT | 10 | "We received a distress signal. Any injuries?," as [circled letters] might say |
| 51% | CHARACTERARCS | 13 | Heroes' journeys, say ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters? |