| 100% | PALMS | 5 | Trees that sway in a hurricane |
| 79% | PALM | 4 | Tree that bends in a hurricane |
| 55% | MANGROVE | 8 | A tree that grows in a tropical coastal swamp |
| 53% | KIN | 3 | Those in a family tree |
| 53% | ASPEN | 5 | Tree that's the name of a city in Colorado |
| 52% | OAK | 3 | Tree that can drop up to 10,000 acorns in a year |
| 52% | OAK | 3 | Tree that "lets fall its crimson leaves" in a Harriet Monroe poem |
| 51% | DECIDUOUS | 9 | A tree that loses its leaves in winter |
| 50% | LOCUST | 6 | Tree or insect that came in a plague |
| 49% | YEW | 3 | Tree that was the source of the poison in Christie's A Pocket Full of Rye |
| 46% | SQUIRREL | 8 | Corn-loving rodent that lives in a tree |
| 46% | MYRRH | 5 | Tree of Africa and south Asia that exudes a resin used in perfume and medicine |
| 46% | MYRRH | 5 | Tree of Africa and S Asia that exudes a resin used in perfume and medicine |
| 46% | RUM | 3 | Liquor in a hurricane |
| 46% | EYE | 3 | Haven in a hurricane |
| 46% | RUM | 3 | Ingredient in a hurricane |
| 46% | ELM | 3 | Type of tree that appears in the title of a horror movie franchise |
| 46% | LEAF | 4 | Part of a tree that may fall in Fall |
| 46% | DECIDUOUS | 9 | Word for a tree that loses leaves in winter |
| 46% | LEAF | 4 | Part of a tree that changes color in autumn |
| 45% | LEAF | 4 | Part of a tree that changes color in the fall |
| 45% | ANCESTRY | 8 | Lineage that's traced in a family tree |
| 45% | RUM | 3 | Main ingredient in a hurricane cocktail |
| 45% | CRADLE | 6 | Nursery item that falls out of a tree in the rhyme “Rock-a-Bye Baby” |
| 44% | LEAF | 4 | Part of a tree that might fall off in the autumn |
| 44% | EYEOFTHE | 8 | __ storm, calm in a hurricane's middle |
| 44% | EYEOFTHESTORM | 13 | Where it's calmest in a hurricane |
| 44% | RUM | 3 | Alcohol in a hurricane or mai tai |
| 44% | ASPENS | 6 | Trees that tremble in breezes |
| 44% | SAPLING | 7 | Tree that's a toddler? |