| 100% | BORROWED | 8 | Something you have loaned from a friend |
| 51% | LAP | 3 | Something you have in a chair |
| 49% | SAP | 3 | Something you might tap from a tree |
| 48% | CHATROOM | 8 | Something you might have a handle on |
| 47% | ECOLI | 5 | Something you might have a gut feeling about? |
| 47% | AROMA | 5 | Something you might pick up from a restaurant |
| 46% | OWETO | 5 | Have a loan from |
| 46% | OWE | 3 | Have a loan from |
| 46% | OWESTO | 6 | Has a loan from |
| 45% | COLOGNE | 7 | Something you may have to douse yourself with after a close shave |
| 45% | NERDCRED | 8 | Something you might earn by having a long crossword-solving streak, informally |
| 44% | OWETO | 5 | Have a loan from: 2 wds. |
| 44% | OWETO | 5 | Have a loan from (2 wds.) |
| 42% | EAT | 3 | Something you really have to do if you want to live to a ripe old age |
| 41% | GROCERY | 7 | Kitchen essential like sugar or flour ... and something you might get delivered from a store |
| 40% | DOGGYBAG | 8 | Something you have filled when full |
| 40% | ULNA | 4 | Something you have up your sleeve |
| 40% | HUG | 3 | Embrace from a friend |
| 39% | FREEANDCLEAR | 12 | Like straightforward advice from a friend? |
| 38% | PERSONALLOAN | 12 | Money borrowed from a friend, e.g. |
| 38% | CORTEX | 6 | You have a motor one |
| 38% | ASK | 3 | "I sort of hate to ___ it, but do you have a basket?" (rhyming question from Little Red in "Into the Woods") |
| 38% | INME | 4 | "You've Got a Friend ___" (song from "Toy Story") |
| 37% | ITCH | 4 | Something you just have to scratch |
| 37% | MEANING | 7 | Something you learn from word processing? |
| 37% | WOOD | 4 | Something you saw in a shop |
| 37% | APP | 3 | Something you tap on a phone |
| 37% | YET | 3 | "Have you met him ___?" (question from an eager friend, maybe) |
| 37% | ETA | 3 | Info requested from a friend who's running late |
| 37% | BROKEN | 6 | "It would be a privilege to have my heart ___ by you," quote from "The Fault in Our Stars" |