| 100% | TILLERED | 8 | Sent forth new shoots from the base, as a plant |
| 47% | UPLIT | 5 | Illuminated from the base, as a holiday tree |
| 40% | RATOON | 6 | Shoot sprouting from a plant's base |
| 37% | OLD | 3 | From the past, as a story |
| 37% | EMIT | 4 | Send forth, as a sound |
| 36% | FORONCE | 7 | As a welcome change from the usual |
| 36% | FORONCE | 7 | As a total departure from the norm |
| 35% | SPROUTUP | 8 | Emerge, as a new plant |
| 35% | LIGULE | 6 | Outgrowth from the base of a grass blade |
| 35% | REAPED | 6 | Gathered from the field, as a harvest |
| 35% | RECALLS | 7 | Removes from the market, as a defective product |
| 35% | AXED | 4 | Removed from the schedule, as a TV show |
| 35% | SENNA | 5 | Drug from the leaves of a plant |
| 35% | UPROOTED | 8 | Pulled a plant up from the ground |
| 34% | ENMASSE | 7 | Altogether, as a whole, from the French language |
| 34% | TALLEST | 7 | Rising furthest from the ground, as a sequoia |
| 34% | STEM | 4 | Core of a plant, from where the twigs come |
| 34% | ROOT | 4 | It supplies a plant with water from the soil |
| 33% | FAR | 3 | "___ from the Madding Crowd" (2015 film based on a Thomas Hardy novel) |
| 33% | UNPIN | 5 | Remove, as a tweet from the top of one's profile |
| 33% | UNPIN | 5 | Remove from the top of one's profile, as a tweet |
| 32% | GUSH | 4 | Spew forth, as oil from a well |
| 32% | WILDPITCH | 9 | Errant throw from the mound that allows a base runner to advance |
| 32% | TEA | 3 | Coffee substitute which comes from the leaves of a plant |
| 32% | ARROWROOT | 9 | Thickener from the rhizomes of a tropical plant |
| 32% | CLEAN | 5 | Wash the dirt off, as from a shell |
| 32% | CARDINAL | 8 | New World songbird with a stout bill such as the vermilion — |
| 31% | SELFIES | 7 | Photos described as a "ubiquitous symbol of millennial navel-gazing" by The New Yorker |
| 31% | HIP | 3 | Shoot from the ___ |
| 31% | TAPIOCA | 7 | Starchy substance extracted from the roots of a cassava plant |