| 100% | TURNPRO | 7 | Start to make a living from something |
| 56% | EKE | 3 | ___ out a living (barely make it from day to day) |
| 55% | ENTERS | 6 | Starts to make a scene? |
| 53% | JOB | 3 | Way to make a living |
| 52% | EKE | 3 | Manage to make a living with difficulty |
| 52% | EKE | 3 | Manage to make a living, scrape by |
| 52% | EKE | 3 | Barely manage to make a living (with "out") |
| 51% | CURTAINTIME | 11 | When one might start to make a scene |
| 51% | BID | 3 | Make a serious effort to get something |
| 51% | GESTURING | 9 | Making a body movement to indicate something |
| 49% | NEWLEAF | 7 | Turn this over to make a fresh start |
| 49% | SOWSEAR | 7 | Impossible to make a silk purse from this |
| 49% | CORNEDBEEF | 10 | Something to make a hash of |
| 49% | KNEE | 4 | Something to make a proposal on? |
| 49% | POTATO | 6 | Something to make a hash of? |
| 49% | SPROUT | 6 | Start to grow from a seed |
| 49% | STIR | 4 | Start to wake, from a slumber |
| 48% | TEEOFF | 6 | Make a start on something (2 wds) |
| 48% | ENSLAVE | 7 | To make someone or something a drudger |
| 47% | SCARETACTIC | 11 | Something used to make a chicken stew? |
| 46% | DIVE | 4 | Something started from a springboard |
| 46% | POLO | 4 | Rearrange "Loop" to make a sport that is far from horsing around? |
| 46% | GERMINATE | 9 | When plants start to sprout from a seed |
| 46% | JUKEBOX | 7 | Something to pick a number from |
| 46% | FLASK | 5 | Something to take a nip from |
| 46% | MENU | 4 | Something a restaurant makes to order? |
| 45% | HAY | 3 | Something to make on a sunny day? |
| 45% | DEMOUNT | 7 | To take something down from a mount |
| 45% | BANANASPLIT | 11 | Something to take in from a boat |
| 45% | MOCK | 4 | To make fun of something in a scornful manner (rhymes with "chalk") |