| 100% | ROLE | 4 | Something assigned in a murder-mystery game |
| 62% | WILL | 4 | Something read in many a murder mystery |
| 60% | BODY | 4 | Evidence in a murder mystery |
| 60% | DECEDENT | 8 | Figure in a murder mystery |
| 60% | BODY | 4 | Discovery in a murder mystery |
| 59% | HEIRS | 5 | People gathered in a murder mystery |
| 59% | LETTEROPENER | 12 | Makeshift weapon in a murder mystery |
| 59% | HEIR | 4 | Common suspect in a murder mystery |
| 59% | CRIMESCENE | 10 | Key place in a murder mystery |
| 58% | MOTIVE | 6 | Killer's reason, in a murder mystery |
| 58% | SECRETROOM | 10 | Hidden spot in a murder mystery, perhaps |
| 55% | CLUEDO | 6 | British name for a murder mystery board game |
| 54% | CLUE | 4 | Something dropped in a mystery novel |
| 54% | PETAL | 5 | Something picked in a fortunetelling game |
| 54% | CLUEDO | 6 | Murder mystery board game launched in 1949 |
| 54% | ITEM | 4 | Something collected in a video game, perhaps |
| 54% | EAR | 3 | Something tugged in a game of charades |
| 50% | GIFT | 4 | Something in a game of Yankee Swap |
| 49% | ALLIANCE | 8 | Something you might propose in a game |
| 48% | BADGE | 5 | Something earned after defeating a Gym Leader, in the Pokémon games |
| 48% | FAYEKELLERMAN | 13 | Novelist who wrote "The Ritual Bath," a murder mystery set in a Jewish community in California (2 wds.) |
| 47% | WHODUNNIT | 9 | A murder mystery |
| 46% | HARRYKEMELMAN | 13 | Novelist who wrote "Friday the Rabbi Slept Late," a murder mystery set in a Jewish community in Massachusetts (2 wds.) |
| 46% | MICHAELCHABON | 13 | Novelist who wrote "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," a murder mystery set in a Jewish community in Alaska (2 wds.) |
| 45% | CYANIDE | 7 | Cause of death in many a murder mystery |
| 45% | CROWS | 5 | Participants in a murder? |
| 45% | CROWS | 5 | Birds in a murder |
| 44% | CORPSE | 6 | Feature of a murder mystery |
| 44% | ANGELA | 6 | Jessica in a murder series |
| 44% | MOTIVE | 6 | Issue in a murder trial |