| 100% | SKETCHY | 7 | Short on details, as a news story |
| 69% | COVER | 5 | Report on, as a news story |
| 60% | SITON | 5 | Hold back, as a news story |
| 60% | SATON | 5 | Held back, as a news story |
| 60% | SKEWS | 5 | Depicts unfairly, as a news story |
| 60% | SITSON | 6 | Holds back, as a news story |
| 60% | EDIT | 4 | Spruce up, as a news story |
| 59% | RUNAWAYBRIDE | 12 | 1999 movie starring Richard Gere as a news columnist doing a story on Julia Roberts' character: 2 wds. |
| 59% | SITON | 5 | Keep hush-hush, as a news story |
| 59% | KILL | 4 | Quash, as a news story |
| 59% | SATON | 5 | Suppressed, as a news story |
| 59% | BYLINED | 7 | Wrote, as a news story |
| 58% | ITAL | 4 | Slanted, as a news story?: abbr. |
| 57% | SITON | 5 | Suppress, as a news story (2 wds.) |
| 57% | EDIT | 4 | Mark up for correction, as a news story |
| 56% | MEETMEINSTLOUIS | 15 | *1944 movie based on a series of New Yorker short stories by Sally Benson |
| 53% | RAIN | 4 | 1932 film drama starring Joan Crawford as Sadie Thompson based on a short story by W Somerset Maugham |
| 53% | EDIT | 4 | Make changes to, as a short story |
| 53% | EDIT | 4 | Make alterations to, as a short story |
| 52% | AWAYFROMHER | 11 | *2007 movie based on a New Yorker short story by Alice Munro |
| 52% | THESWIMMER | 10 | *1968 movie based on a New Yorker short story by John Cheever |
| 52% | ADOPT | 5 | Take on, as a new approach |
| 51% | REPORTING | 9 | Working on a news story |
| 51% | BURY | 4 | Try to conceal, as a negative news story |
| 50% | RETELL | 6 | Give a new version of, as a story |
| 50% | INFO | 4 | Details on a particular subject, for short |
| 50% | HIRE | 4 | Bring on board, as a new employee |
| 49% | RETELLS | 7 | Passes on, as a story |
| 49% | ITEMIZE | 7 | List in detail, as on a tax form |
| 48% | SPECS | 5 | Short term for details on a computer's components |