| 100% | ATONE | 5 | Seek forgiveness, perhaps |
| 66% | ATONE | 5 | Seek forgiveness |
| 63% | ATONE | 5 | Seek forgiveness for sins |
| 62% | ATONE | 5 | Seek forgiveness or make amends |
| 61% | HUNT | 4 | Seek food, perhaps |
| 61% | SUE | 3 | Seek restitution, perhaps |
| 61% | CAMPAIGN | 8 | Seek office, perhaps |
| 61% | DISGUISED | 9 | Seeking anonymity, perhaps |
| 61% | DIVED | 5 | Sought pearls, perhaps |
| 61% | PIOUS | 5 | Seeking sainthood, perhaps |
| 59% | REPENT | 6 | Feel regret and seek forgiveness |
| 59% | SIN | 3 | Thing to seek forgiveness for |
| 58% | ATONE | 5 | Seek for forgiveness |
| 57% | LOAN | 4 | You might seek forgiveness for this |
| 57% | SIN | 3 | What Catholics may seek forgiveness for |
| 57% | PENANCE | 7 | Price for forgiveness, perhaps |
| 56% | SUE | 3 | Seek legal justice, perhaps |
| 56% | PROSPECT | 8 | Seek your fortune, perhaps |
| 56% | SUED | 4 | Sought relief from, perhaps |
| 56% | AWOL | 4 | Sought by MPs, perhaps |
| 51% | DEFECTOR | 8 | One seeking asylum, perhaps |
| 51% | PROFESSOR | 9 | One seeking tenure, perhaps |
| 50% | STRIKER | 7 | One seeking a new agreement, perhaps |
| 47% | HID | 3 | Waited to be sought, perhaps |
| 46% | BEGGING | 7 | *Seeking change, perhaps |
| 46% | EMIGRE | 6 | One seeking use of the 1951 Refugee Convention, perhaps |
| 44% | SWF | 3 | One placing a "Women Seeking Men" personal ad, perhaps: Abbr. |
| 40% | KNEES | 5 | Go down on one's ___ (seek forgiveness) |
| 39% | HIDE | 4 | ___-and-seek (park game, perhaps) |
| 35% | AMNESTY | 7 | Forgiveness |