| 100% | EGG | 3 | Something that's gone bad if it floats when placed in a bowl of water |
| 52% | EGG | 3 | Food item that will float in a bowl of water if it's old |
| 36% | GOLDFISH | 8 | Pet that lives in a bowl of water |
| 35% | DAM | 3 | Something that stops the flow of water in a stream |
| 34% | TEABAG | 6 | Item that's placed in a cup of hot water to brew a drink: 2 wds. |
| 33% | THAW | 4 | Let sit in a bowl of water, maybe |
| 31% | PNEUMATICTIRE | 13 | In a ___, there's a volume of ___ that keeps it firm |
| 31% | STRAPPEDFORCASH | 15 | Something that you've placed over your shoulder in the hope that it will somehow drag you out of the hole? |
| 31% | EYE | 3 | Something involved in a Biblical exchange that, on the face of it, seem the same |
| 30% | CAR | 3 | Something that goes in a garage |
| 30% | TOMCOLLINS | 10 | Cocktail that's called a French 75 if you use Champagne instead of soda water |
| 30% | FIREBOAT | 8 | Vessel that pumps the water it's floating in |
| 30% | FLAT | 4 | Musical symbol that, when placed before a note, lowers it in pitch by a semitone |
| 30% | AERO | 4 | Something that Rowntree's dreamed up in 1935, and it ended up being full of holes |
| 30% | LEVEN | 5 | Loch —, body of water in Perth and Kinross, Scotland housing a castle that was a place of imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scots |
| 30% | BURN | 4 | "We'll ___ that bridge when we get to it," example of 50a that predicts a mess in the future |
| 30% | GAD | 3 | West Virginia community that disappeared under the waters of Summersville Lake when a river was dammed in the sixties |
| 29% | SPOT | 4 | Parking ___, place in the car lot where you might be parked, and something that seems impossible to find when you're in a rush |
| 29% | MELON | 5 | Fruit that's still a fruit when two of its letters are switched |
| 29% | OAR | 3 | Item that works best when it's half in the water |
| 29% | CARPOOLLANE | 11 | Something that not a single person can go in? |
| 29% | ATM | 3 | Something that most people use, but it's also not tough to go through a withdrawal |
| 29% | UNI | 3 | Something that often precedes a corn, only in fiction, of course |
| 28% | BIOMARKER | 9 | Something that can indicate the presence of a disease in the body |
| 28% | IVIES | 5 | School group that's in a league of its own |
| 28% | CHAW | 4 | Something placed in the mouth of a pitcher? |
| 28% | FLAT | 4 | In music, the sign that, when placed before a note, lowers it in pitch by a semitone |
| 28% | ENGINE | 6 | It goes in front of a coal tender |
| 28% | OVEN | 4 | "why do they call it ___ when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food" (nonsensical tweet that became a meme) |
| 28% | EON | 3 | Something unimaginable that's a blink of an eye in cosmological terms |