| 100% | BARE | 4 | The ___ essentials (only the most necessary things) |
| 51% | WORST | 5 | The most dreadful thing of them all |
| 50% | BARE | 4 | ___-bones (including only the most basic necessities) |
| 50% | YOWZA | 5 | "That's the most incredible thing ever!" |
| 49% | FAVES | 5 | Things you dig the most |
| 48% | TRAVELEDLIGHT | 13 | Packed only the essentials |
| 48% | MERELY | 6 | Only the item specified, nothing more, simply |
| 46% | WINE | 4 | "One of the most civilized things in the world," per Hemingway |
| 46% | SNOB | 4 | One who prefers only the highest-priced things, say |
| 46% | ESSENCE | 7 | The most significant quality or aspect of a thing |
| 44% | PLEONASM | 8 | The use of more words than necessary |
| 44% | ISNT | 4 | "Winning ___ everything, it's the only thing" |
| 44% | UNIONCARDS | 10 | Things in the wallets of many laborers |
| 44% | CASTLE | 6 | Only chess move where the king can move more than one square |
| 43% | DOG | 3 | The "only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself," according to Josh Billings |
| 43% | TONOTSTOPQUESTIONING | 20 | ''The most important thing is __'' |
| 42% | NOVAK | 5 | "The Office" actor B.J. who wrote the story collection "One More Thing" |
| 42% | FUSION | 6 | The process of joining two or more things into one |
| 41% | EST | 3 | How the descriptions of most things usually end? |
| 41% | TSELIOT | 7 | He said the most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible |
| 41% | THEJEEPSEATS | 12 | Only things on base that are more uncomfortable than bunk beds? |
| 41% | TVS | 3 | Things found in the back of most N.Y.C. cabs |
| 41% | FASTRELIEF | 10 | The only thing we have to fear is ... feeling better quickly? |
| 41% | FAVORITE | 8 | The thing you most prefer in a group of like items |
| 41% | BOOKS | 5 | Things people resolve to read more of in the New Year |
| 41% | ART | 3 | "The only serious thing in the world," per Oscar Wilde |
| 41% | WHOLENOTE | 9 | It may be the only thing in a bar |
| 41% | FASSBINDER | 10 | Acclaimed German filmmaker who said, in 1974, “I think TV is the most important thing one can do” |
| 40% | DUNE | 4 | Only film to win more awards than “CODA” at the 2022 Oscars |
| 40% | ART | 3 | “The only serious thing in the world,” according to Oscar Wilde |