| 100% | WINE | 4 | The "marsala" in chicken marsala |
| 63% | HEN | 3 | Chicken in the nest |
| 62% | DARK | 4 | Like the meat in a chicken drumstick |
| 61% | ESCAPE | 6 | War film parodied in Chicken Run, The Great __ |
| 60% | GINGER | 6 | Rocky the Rooster's love interest in Chicken Run |
| 60% | IGUANA | 6 | Animal called chicken of the trees in C. America |
| 58% | GIBLETS | 7 | The entrails found in a shop-bought chicken |
| 56% | MCBITES | 7 | Chicken ___ (ball-shaped fast food offered in the early 2010s) |
| 55% | GONZO | 5 | Muppet who's in love with Camilla the Chicken |
| 55% | ROOSTER | 7 | A male chicken that crows loudly in the morning |
| 54% | IGUANA | 6 | In the Caribbean it's known as "the chicken of the trees" |
| 54% | DRUNKEN | 7 | Descriptor for noodles and chicken, in the names of dishes |
| 54% | SPORK | 5 | Hybrid utensil popularized by Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 1970s |
| 53% | COCHIN | 6 | Chicken originally bred in China noted for the excessive plumage covering its legs |
| 53% | TANDOORI | 8 | ___ chicken (Indian dish named after the clay oven it is prepared in) |
| 53% | POLLOQUESTION | 13 | "Why did the chicken cross the road?," e.g., in Tijuana? |
| 53% | POLLOQUESTION | 13 | Why did the chicken cross the road?, e.g., in Tijuana? |
| 53% | PUN | 3 | "A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion," for example |
| 50% | JACKBLACK | 9 | Comedic actor who sings "Steve's Lava Chicken" in the new Minecraft film |
| 49% | JULIA | 5 | With 2-Down, chef who helped popularize chicken cordon bleu in the U.S. |
| 49% | ENTRANCE | 8 | The way in |
| 49% | SMILE | 5 | The parenthesis in :) |
| 49% | TEAR | 4 | The apostrophe in :'-( |
| 49% | SMILES | 6 | The parentheses in :) :) :) |
| 49% | TEARS | 5 | The apostrophes in :''''( |
| 48% | ALA | 3 | Chicken ___ King (in the style of): 2 wds. |
| 48% | DOMESTIC | 8 | The D in GDP |
| 48% | ETHANOL | 7 | The kick in kirsch |
| 48% | BUREAU | 6 | The B in FBI |
| 48% | OLAF | 4 | The snowman in "Frozen" |