| 100% | PASSTHEBUCK | 11 | Shift blame to someone else |
| 65% | PASSTHEBUCK | 11 | Shift responsibility to someone else, and an apt title for this puzzle |
| 58% | DEBT | 4 | Money owed to someone else |
| 58% | PASSTHETORCH | 12 | Give responsibility to someone else |
| 57% | PASSTHEBUCK | 11 | Shift blame to another |
| 55% | REASSIGNING | 11 | Giving to someone else |
| 55% | REFERS | 6 | Sends to someone else |
| 55% | REFER | 5 | Send to someone else |
| 53% | DELEGATE | 8 | Hand over responsibility to someone else |
| 52% | COVET | 5 | Crave for something belonging to someone else |
| 52% | COMPASSION | 10 | Kind response to someone else's suffering |
| 52% | DEFER | 5 | Yield, as a decision, to someone else |
| 52% | PETSIT | 6 | Tend to someone else's boxers, say |
| 51% | STOLE | 5 | Took what belongs to someone else without permission |
| 50% | IQUOTE | 6 | Lead-in to someone else's words, after "and" |
| 50% | BIGAMISTS | 9 | Those who marry while legally wed to someone else |
| 50% | FWD | 3 | Send along to someone else, as an email: Abbr. |
| 50% | FORWARD | 7 | Send an email you've received on to someone else |
| 47% | ICANTBEBOTHERED | 15 | “That’s for someone else to worry about” |
| 47% | ABSOLVE | 7 | To free someone from blame, forgive |
| 47% | TAKETHEFALL | 11 | Accept blame for someone else's mistake |
| 46% | IMPERSONATE | 11 | Pretend to be someone else |
| 46% | ROLEPLAY | 8 | Pretend to be someone else |
| 46% | ACTING | 6 | Pretending to be someone else |
| 46% | LIVEALIE | 8 | Pretend to be someone else |
| 46% | ACT | 3 | Pretend to be someone else |
| 46% | ACTS | 4 | Pretends to be someone else |
| 46% | SCAPEGOAT | 9 | Someone who is made to take the blame |
| 45% | WORKINGHARDOR | 13 | With 47 Across, facetious question to someone putting in a shift |
| 45% | IFNOT | 5 | "___ you, I will take someone else to the prom": 2 wds. |