| 100% | VALE | 4 | This ___ of tears (life) |
| 80% | VALE | 4 | This ____ of tears |
| 75% | VALE | 4 | "This ___ of tears" |
| 74% | IRA | 3 | Glass of This American Life |
| 73% | YANN | 4 | This Martel wrote Life of Pi |
| 71% | ACTV | 4 | End of many This American Life episodes |
| 71% | CUTICLES | 8 | Hangnails happen when skin of these tears |
| 70% | CABARET | 7 | Life is one of these, or so sang Liza Minnelli |
| 70% | ETERNAL | 7 | Jade represented this type of life to Maya |
| 69% | SEA | 3 | The majority of life on earth lives in this |
| 68% | STOREY | 6 | David —, author of novels Radcliffe and This Sporting Life |
| 68% | SPOKES | 6 | The Buddhist wheel of life has eight of these |
| 68% | COINS | 5 | Collecting 100 of these gives Mario an extra life |
| 68% | BARNOWL | 7 | Most common of this bird lives in farm structure |
| 67% | REAL | 4 | "Is this the ___ life?" (start of a great Queen hit) |
| 67% | MID | 3 | An age crisis one has at this point of life |
| 66% | THEWIND | 7 | Scarlett O'Hara's way of life was gone with this |
| 66% | ANDERSON | 8 | Lindsay —, director of the films Britannia Hospital and This Sporting Life |
| 64% | EEL | 3 | A type of this aqua life generates electricity to shock other animals |
| 62% | IRA | 3 | Glass of "This American Life" |
| 62% | IRA | 3 | ___ Glass, of "This American Life" |
| 62% | IRA | 3 | Glass of “This American Life” |
| 62% | IRA | 3 | ___ Glass of "This American Life" |
| 61% | VALE | 4 | ____ of tears |
| 60% | IRA | 3 | Host Glass of "This American Life" |
| 60% | DNA | 3 | Building block of life, and what's hidden in this puzzle's 4 longest answers |
| 59% | IRAGLASS | 8 | Host of NPR's "This American Life" |
| 59% | IRA | 3 | ___ Glass of radio's "This American Life" |
| 59% | SERIAL | 6 | Podcast spun off of "This American Life" |
| 59% | IRA | 3 | Glass of NPR's "This American Life" |