| 100% | TALLS | 5 | They're denoted by T's, for tees |
| 44% | LISTS | 5 | They're made for and by Santa |
| 43% | PECS | 4 | They're worked by presses, for short |
| 41% | POET | 4 | T S Eliot, for example |
| 40% | THECOCKTAIL | 11 | & 19D 1949 stage play by T S Eliot |
| 39% | LAND | 4 | "The Waste ___," poem by T.S. Eliot that is considered a seminal work for modernist poetry |
| 39% | ETATS | 5 | They're represented by sénateurs |
| 38% | ICEBERGS | 8 | They're tracked by Canada's Radarsats |
| 38% | CADILLACS | 9 | They're named for Detroit's founder |
| 38% | COALS | 5 | They're used for snowmen's eyes |
| 38% | INTS | 4 | They're not good for QB's |
| 38% | SLEEVES | 7 | They're short on T's |
| 37% | CATS | 4 | Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical based on poetry by T S Eliot |
| 37% | TMS | 3 | They're sometimes signified by circled R's |
| 37% | SEAS | 4 | They're represented by Triton's seven daughters |
| 37% | DFLATS | 6 | They're found by the C's |
| 37% | CATS | 4 | 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical based on poetry by T S Eliot |
| 37% | TDS | 3 | They're made by FB's and HB's |
| 37% | SIGNS | 5 | They're learned for a learner's permit exam |
| 37% | PAYCHECKS | 9 | They're cashed at banks for one's salary |
| 36% | CAT | 3 | T. S. Eliot’s Rum Tum Tugger, for one |
| 36% | WASTELAND | 9 | The —, modernist poem in five sections by T S Eliot first published in 1922 |
| 36% | PLAYS | 5 | They're shown by X's, O's and arrows |
| 36% | TIDES | 5 | They're explained by Newton's law of universal gravitation |
| 35% | MIA | 3 | One denoted by a cross on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, for short |
| 35% | PRESENTS | 8 | They're left near the 9-Down by this week's visitor |
| 35% | COOKIES | 7 | They're left near the 9-Down for this week's visitor |
| 34% | CATS | 4 | Musical inspired by T.S. Eliot |
| 34% | LOLLIPOPS | 9 | They're for suckers |