| 100% | RACER | 5 | The person driving a car to win a contest |
| 47% | RACE | 4 | Change a word in this phrase to correct it! "Slow and steady wins the contest" |
| 47% | ROAD | 4 | Where to drive a car |
| 46% | PARTY | 5 | A group of people trying to win an election |
| 45% | UGLIER | 6 | More likely to win a holiday sweater contest |
| 45% | STABLEBOY | 9 | Person in a barn who tends to the animals |
| 44% | CURIE | 5 | Surname of the first woman to win a Nobel prize |
| 44% | WOO | 3 | Try to win the heart of a lady |
| 44% | ABET | 4 | Lend support to a person breaking the law |
| 43% | SALONGA | 7 | Lea who was the first Asian actress to win a Tony |
| 43% | CAREEN | 6 | Threaten to tip, as a wildly driven car |
| 43% | COUPE | 5 | Car with a sloped roof leading to the trunk |
| 43% | BETHERMOUSETRAP | 15 | What she did to win a bragging contest with an exterminator? |
| 43% | SACKRACES | 9 | Contests in which people are rewarded for jumping to a conclusion? |
| 43% | RAMP | 4 | It can give people the inclination to enter a building |
| 42% | DELOREAN | 8 | Car that becomes a time machine in "Back to the Future" |
| 42% | MARIE | 5 | Curie who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes |
| 41% | NOBEL | 5 | Malala Yousafzai is the youngest person ever to win one (at age 17) |
| 41% | EMMY | 4 | Ventriloquist Shirley Dinsdale was the first person to win one (1949) |
| 41% | LUISE | 5 | Rainer who was the first person to win two Academy Awards for acting |
| 41% | TAN | 3 | What a pale person might try to get at the beach |
| 40% | PISA | 4 | Italian site of many photos in which people pretend to support the weight of a tower |
| 40% | MRBEAN | 6 | British TV character who once drove his car from a chair on the roof |
| 40% | OMAR | 4 | Ilhan who was the first person to wear a hijab on the House floor |
| 40% | SCAM | 4 | Email saying you've won a free trip to the Bahamas, probably |
| 40% | REPEATOFFENDERS | 15 | Recidivistic people ... or a hint to summoning the starred answers? |
| 39% | SKILIFTS | 8 | Conveyances that get people to the top of a snowy mountain: 2 wds. |
| 39% | ONE | 3 | Answer to the joke "How many dull people does it take to change a lightbulb?" |
| 39% | VIOLA | 5 | Davis who's the youngest person to win the "Triple Crown of Acting" |
| 39% | LUISE | 5 | ___ Rainer, the first person to win back-to-back Oscars |