| 100% | BANAL | 5 | Stop a cadet being boring |
| 52% | DRAGGED | 7 | Was boring, as a meeting |
| 52% | BANAL | 5 | Stop a student being trite |
| 51% | THWART | 6 | Stop a plan from being realized |
| 48% | PACE | 4 | A cadet might be asked to pick it up |
| 48% | BARRED | 6 | Stopped being a poet, say |
| 48% | DRILL | 5 | A tool that will bore |
| 47% | SPLITUP | 7 | Stop being a couple (2 wds.) |
| 47% | GOCOLD | 6 | Stop being followable, as a trail |
| 47% | BROKEUP | 7 | Stopped being a couple: 2 wds. |
| 46% | BUTTED | 6 | Stopped being a 38-Down, with "out" |
| 46% | DRAG | 4 | Main road is a bore |
| 44% | MANUP | 5 | "Come on, stop being such a wimp!" |
| 44% | LESS | 4 | "___ is a bore" (Robert Venturi's architectural maxim) |
| 43% | BAHAMAS | 7 | Caribbean country, Nassau was a pirate pit stop |
| 43% | BUS | 3 | Vehicle that can be caught at a stop |
| 42% | FOILED | 6 | When a plan is stopped from succeeding |
| 42% | FIELDER | 7 | A player whose job it is to catch or stop the ball |
| 42% | TWICE | 5 | How many times a day a stopped clock is right |
| 41% | TKO | 3 | Letters that will stop a fight |
| 41% | YAWN | 4 | Bored action and funny taunt that may be a snarky teen's signature |
| 41% | INAPEDESTRIANSPOCKET | 20 | "The car stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was ___": Anonymous |
| 41% | ALIFE | 5 | "Get ___!" ("Stop being so boring!") |
| 40% | SILENCER | 8 | Item that will stop a firearm report? |
| 40% | MANUP | 5 | "Stop being a wimp!" |
| 40% | MANUP | 5 | “Stop being a wimp!” |
| 40% | RAGINGGULL | 10 | Film about a seabird who will stop at nothing for a sandwich? |
| 40% | LOCALTRAIN | 10 | Option for a subway commuter whose stop is skipped by the express |
| 39% | MANUP | 5 | "Stop being such a wuss!" |
| 39% | MANUP | 5 | "Stop being such a wimp!" |