| 100% | MONIKER | 7 | Synonym for nickname, sounds like a girl's name |
| 58% | DEE | 3 | Girl's name that sounds like a letter |
| 58% | MAE | 3 | Girl's name that sounds like a month |
| 58% | ARRID | 5 | Deodorant brand whose name sounds like a synonym for "dry" |
| 57% | PIUS | 4 | Name of 12 popes that sounds like a synonym for "devout" |
| 57% | ELLA | 4 | Girl's name that sounds like French for "she has it" |
| 56% | MAE | 3 | Girl's name that sounds like a month of the year |
| 54% | ERIE | 4 | Great Lake that sounds like a synonym for "mysterious" |
| 54% | ERIE | 4 | Great Lake that sounds like a synonym for "spooky" |
| 50% | EVIE | 4 | Woman’s name that sounds like an initialism for a plug-in car |
| 49% | PLATTE | 6 | River whose name sounds like a word for a map |
| 49% | ASSENT | 6 | Synonym for "agreement" that sounds like a mountain climb |
| 48% | MAT | 3 | Yoga equipment that sounds like a man's name |
| 48% | SORRENTO | 8 | Italian town whose name sounds like a Kia S.U.V. |
| 48% | EDIE | 4 | Girl's name that sounds like two adjacent letters |
| 48% | RANI | 4 | Royal that sounds like a boy's name |
| 47% | BANANA | 6 | Fruit that sounds like a toddler's word for "grandmother" |
| 47% | ELSIE | 5 | Girl's name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet |
| 47% | EVIE | 4 | Girl's name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet |
| 46% | VESPA | 5 | Bike whose name sounds like a Bond girl reprised by Eva Green in 2006 |
| 46% | RAE | 3 | Girl's name that's a homophone for a boy's name |
| 46% | ESTEE | 5 | Girl's name that sounds like two letters of the French alphabet |
| 46% | KAY | 3 | Girl's name that sounds like the 11th letter of the alphabet |
| 46% | DEE | 3 | Girl's name that sounds like the fourth letter of the alphabet |
| 46% | NEVILLE | 7 | Name that, if you pronounce the first two letters individually, sounds like a synonym for 22 Across |
| 46% | AWEIGH | 6 | Sounds like a method for raising an anchor? |
| 46% | LAKEBUCCANEER | 13 | Amphibious aircraft that sounds like a vacation spot for Blackbeard's crew (6,4) (4) |
| 45% | ALLSPICE | 8 | Sounds like a lot of flavor for one dried berry |
| 45% | OMAN | 4 | Country whose name sounds like a Jamaican's cry |
| 45% | ERIE | 4 | Lake that sounds like a synonym of "spooky" |