| 100% | TOOKANL | 7 | Suffered humiliation or defeat, in slang |
| 61% | EATIT | 5 | Suffer humiliation, in slang |
| 56% | EATIT | 5 | Suffer ignominious defeat, in slang |
| 44% | TAKETHEL | 8 | Admit defeat, in modern slang |
| 44% | TAK | 3 | Accept defeat, in modern slang |
| 44% | OWN | 3 | Consistently defeat, in sports slang |
| 44% | OWNS | 4 | Defeats consistently, in sports slang |
| 43% | OWN | 3 | Consistently defeat, in slang |
| 43% | SMOKED | 6 | Utterly defeated, in slang |
| 43% | ENFUEGO | 7 | Really hot, in slang or in Spanish |
| 43% | ATEIT | 5 | Suffered ignominious failure, in slang |
| 42% | EATIT | 5 | Accept a bad defeat, in slang |
| 42% | TOMATOCAN | 9 | Easily defeated fighter, in boxing slang |
| 41% | OWIE | 4 | Bruise or scrape, in toddler slang |
| 41% | SHELLAC | 7 | Defeat soundly, in slang |
| 41% | SPANK | 5 | Defeat handily, in slang |
| 41% | SPANK | 5 | Defeat soundly, in slang |
| 41% | CARB | 4 | Sugar or starch, in slang |
| 41% | NABE | 4 | Weho or Soho, in slang |
| 41% | OLDLADY | 7 | Wife or mother, in slang |
| 41% | OWNS | 4 | Defeats regularly, in slang |
| 41% | SMOKES | 6 | Defeats decisively, in slang |
| 40% | ONTILT | 6 | Suffering from a losing streak, in poker slang |
| 40% | EATIT | 5 | Suffer a humiliating loss, in slang |
| 40% | FIVEO | 5 | Cops, in slang ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 39% | CINQUES | 7 | Fives, in old cards or dice slang |
| 39% | DOUGH | 5 | Pizza base ... or 25a in slang |
| 39% | CLAMS | 5 | Chowder mollusks ... or 25a in slang |
| 39% | DRIPPING | 8 | Dr Crippen, or bread and __ in rhyming slang |
| 39% | OHIO | 4 | Weird or cringe, in Gen Alpha slang |