| 100% | RULE | 4 | Something you must not break, in a game |
| 51% | ALLIANCE | 8 | Something you might propose in a game |
| 50% | EXTRASEC | 8 | Champagne classification that sounds like something you might want in a close game |
| 45% | LAP | 3 | Something you have in a chair |
| 45% | WOOD | 4 | Something you saw in a shop |
| 45% | CUE | 3 | Something you might get a break with? |
| 44% | GIFT | 4 | Something in a game of Yankee Swap |
| 44% | RUN | 3 | Something you would do in a marathon |
| 44% | NAP | 3 | Something you might grab in a hammock |
| 44% | HALFTIME | 8 | A break in the middle of a game |
| 44% | TIMEOUT | 7 | Break in the action during a game (Hyph.) |
| 44% | COSTUME | 7 | Something you might go to a party in |
| 44% | SECRETRECIPE | 12 | Something you can't get in a restaurant |
| 44% | SPLIT | 5 | Something you'll see in a bowling alley (*) |
| 44% | YOLK | 4 | Something that may be broken in a kitchen |
| 43% | TABOOOPERATION | 14 | Something you're not allowed to do in math? |
| 43% | WALLSCONCE | 10 | Something you might secretly push in a 19-Across |
| 43% | FALSEPANEL | 10 | Something you might secretly push in a 24-Down |
| 43% | EAR | 3 | Something tugged in a game of charades |
| 43% | TORAH | 5 | Something you can mark your place in with a yad |
| 43% | OBI | 3 | Something you might take a bow for in the theater? |
| 42% | TROU | 4 | Something you might not want to drop in front of others |
| 42% | TOSS | 4 | Something you do with a coin or veggies in a wok |
| 42% | GASUP | 5 | Something you don't need to do in a Chevy Volt |
| 42% | TEST | 4 | Something you're completely unprepared for, in a common stress dream |
| 42% | WISH | 4 | Something you would make at a well after throwing in a coin |
| 41% | BID | 3 | Put in a ___, something you would do at an auction |
| 41% | LOST | 4 | ___-and-found box, something you might find in a school |
| 41% | IRL | 3 | Not in the game world, to a gamer |
| 41% | DELAY | 5 | Rain ___ (break in a game due to weather) |