| 100% | ACES | 4 | Top four |
| 90% | SEMI | 4 | Top Four matchup |
| 75% | LEVI | 4 | Four Tops leader___Stubbs |
| 75% | LEVI | 4 | Four Tops frontman Stubbs |
| 75% | OBIE | 4 | Four Tops singer Benson |
| 75% | MOTOWN | 6 | Four tops' music genre |
| 74% | SEMI | 4 | Playoff game featuring two of the top four competitors |
| 73% | AINT | 4 | Four Tops hit "__No Woman" |
| 73% | ICANTHELPMYSELF | 15 | Four Tops hit of 1965 |
| 72% | SKAT | 4 | Card game in which jacks are the top four trumps |
| 70% | DREIDEL | 7 | Four-sided spinning top played during Hanukkah |
| 69% | LANDAUS | 7 | Four-wheeled carriages with folded-down tops |
| 69% | LEVI | 4 | Stubbs of the Four Tops |
| 69% | MOTOWN | 6 | The Four Tops' original label |
| 68% | CANOPY | 6 | Decorative cover over top of four-poster bed |
| 67% | LEVI | 4 | Singer Stubbs of the Four Tops |
| 65% | SHE | 3 | The Four Tops' "When ___ Was My Girl" |
| 65% | YOU | 3 | "Something About ___" (Boston or Four Tops song) |
| 65% | SOUTHKOREA | 10 | Home country of the top four finishers in the 2017 14-Across (2 wds.) |
| 65% | TSE | 3 | Only Asian security trading facility in the top four by market capitalization, for short |
| 64% | CHER | 4 | Singer with Top Ten hits four decades in a row |
| 63% | COMETS | 6 | 1950s backup group with four top 10 hits |
| 63% | AINT | 4 | "___ No Woman," 1973 hit for the Four Tops |
| 63% | STUBBS | 6 | Levi, classic lead singer of the Four Tops |
| 62% | HAWAIIFIVEO | 11 | *Drama in the Nielsen top 10 four times during the '70s |
| 61% | OLD | 3 | "It's the Same ___ Song" (The Four Tops hit) |
| 61% | INEED | 5 | “Baby ___ Your Loving” (hit single by the Four Tops) |
| 59% | ILLBETHERE | 10 | Words after "Reach Out" in a #1 Four Tops hit |
| 59% | CAREY | 5 | Mariah whose first four singles all topped the Billboard chart |
| 58% | SAME | 4 | "It's the ___ Old Song" (Top 10 hit by the Four Tops) |