| 100% | EGOIDEAL | 8 | The best you can be, Freudian-style |
| 54% | BETTER | 6 | "Do the best you can until you know ___...," motivating quote by Maya Angelou |
| 52% | COMA | 4 | You can be in it and out of it at the same time |
| 52% | AGELIMIT | 8 | The youngest you can be and still be allowed to do something: 2 wds. |
| 52% | LOTTERY | 7 | "Jackpot! You've just won the Mega Millions ___! Could there be a better feeling?" |
| 51% | HAIRSPRAY | 9 | You Can't Stop the Beat is in this musical |
| 51% | HEN | 3 | It could be the best or worst layer |
| 51% | SAND | 4 | All you can see in the desert is ___ |
| 50% | BLINDNESS | 9 | Night __, when you can't see well in the dark |
| 49% | STAB | 4 | You could take this in the dark if you didn't know any better |
| 48% | GOINTOTHEBLIGHT | 15 | Move out where you can be easily seen, right in the middle of the infested potato field |
| 48% | TONGUE | 6 | A word you can't remember will be on the tip of it |
| 48% | CHERRYPICKING | 13 | "As you can tell from these few examples, Bings are better than maraschinos" |
| 46% | CEMENT | 6 | Cheat the mob and you could be wearing __ shoes |
| 46% | ADLAIESTEVENSON | 15 | He said "In America, anybody can be president; that's one of the risks you take" |
| 46% | TWEET | 5 | Message such as @skullmandible's "most cutting thing you can say is 'who's this clown?' because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns" |
| 45% | BABA | 4 | ___ Is You (video game where the player can physically manipulate words representing rules) |
| 45% | EYEON | 5 | "I can keep an ___ the baby while you are away.": 2 wds. |
| 45% | MORAL | 5 | "Honesty is the best policy" or "Look before you leap" |
| 45% | KYRA | 4 | Sedgwick of the 2025 film "The Best You Can" |
| 45% | HOLEINONE | 9 | The best score one can get in golf, also called ace, and is a very rare occurrence: 3 wds. |
| 45% | OMEN | 4 | Sign of the future that can be good or bad |
| 45% | DARKNESS | 8 | The more there is, the less you can see |
| 45% | FACT | 4 | You can be sure of it |
| 45% | FINES | 5 | You can be slapped with these |
| 44% | LIGHTS | 6 | (2/4) Maybe you can turn on the Christmas ___, so your house is bright and visible to Santa |
| 44% | LEAST | 5 | "The ___ you could do is help your friends" |
| 44% | YETTOCOME | 9 | The best is __ |
| 44% | ISNTOK | 6 | Could be better |
| 44% | GPA | 3 | A good one could get you on the Dean's List: Abbr. |