| 100% | CAME | 4 | Showed up in an event |
| 67% | COMETO | 6 | Show up for, as an event |
| 56% | MADE | 4 | Showed up in time for |
| 52% | ARMREST | 7 | It may go up in an airplane |
| 52% | TRESS | 5 | What's done up in an updo |
| 52% | LEMON | 5 | One might show up in a casino |
| 51% | EXPLOSION | 9 | Detonation of a bomb ends up in an ___ |
| 51% | PUCKS | 5 | They may end up in an icy net |
| 50% | ERS | 3 | Hospital places where people show up in ambulances: Abbr. |
| 50% | DBL | 3 | Show up on time, in textspeak: Abbr. |
| 50% | AVIATE | 6 | Work in an air show |
| 49% | GPA | 3 | A student might bring this up in an intro class |
| 49% | KEYS | 4 | Lost ones might turn up in an old pants pocket |
| 49% | COMPETED | 8 | Took part in an athletic event |
| 49% | TOON | 4 | Any character in an animated show |
| 49% | SEN | 3 | One in an upper chamber: Abbr. |
| 48% | BRONZE | 6 | Third place medal in an Olympic event |
| 48% | ARCED | 5 | Traveled in an up-and-down path |
| 48% | AVENUEQ | 7 | Show set in an "outer-outer borough" of New York |
| 47% | ABSORBED | 8 | "The sponge ___ the liquid in an instant." (soaked up) |
| 46% | CABER | 5 | Tapered log around 19 feet long tossed in an event at the Highland Games |
| 46% | EXODUS | 6 | Book of the Bible or an event described in it |
| 46% | TIMEOFDEPARTURE | 15 | It may be up in the air at an airport |
| 46% | PANEL | 5 | Group of experts, as in an interview or talent show |
| 45% | CABER | 5 | Tapered log about 19 feet long tossed in an event at a modern Highland Games |
| 45% | DECATHLON | 9 | An athletic event made up of 10 individual sports |
| 44% | ARMLOCK | 7 | Grip around an upper limb in wrestling |
| 44% | PRELIMS | 7 | Olympics events rarely shown in prime time |
| 44% | SURPRISE | 8 | An event where the main person is kept in the dark about the party |
| 44% | WALKINGDEADWOOD | 15 | Show in which zombies invade an 1870s South Dakota town? |