| 100% | YESAND | 6 | Two-word maxim of improv comedy |
| 59% | YESAND | 6 | Improv comedy's two-word tenet |
| 54% | YESAND | 6 | Acceptance principle of improv comedy |
| 52% | YESAND | 6 | Improv comedy rule of thumb |
| 51% | YESAND | 6 | Phrase used as a basic tenet of improv comedy |
| 50% | IWISH | 5 | First two words of "Dixie" |
| 50% | INTHE | 5 | First two words of Genesis |
| 49% | ONCEA | 5 | First two words of "Waltzing Matilda" |
| 49% | OHI | 3 | First two words of "Dixie," often |
| 49% | ISEE | 4 | Last two words of "Amazing Grace" |
| 49% | ICRIED | 6 | Last two words of Love Story |
| 49% | ATALE | 5 | First two words of a Dickens novel |
| 49% | ODETO | 5 | First two words of many poem titles |
| 49% | ODETO | 5 | First two words of some tribute poems |
| 49% | IMET | 4 | First two words of Shelley's "Ozymandias" |
| 48% | YES | 3 | With 10-Down, improv comedy rule of thumb |
| 48% | UNDERGOD | 8 | Two words added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 |
| 48% | OLEOLE | 6 | The first two words of “Hot Hot Hot” |
| 48% | ASONE | 5 | Last two words of John Lennon's "Imagine" |
| 48% | OMIT | 4 | Leave off, like the last two words of |
| 48% | OURFATHER | 9 | First two words of the Lord's Prayer |
| 48% | IAM | 3 | First two words of "Green Eggs and Ham" |
| 47% | OCAPTAIN | 8 | First two words of Walt Whitman poem about Lincoln |
| 47% | ANDTONIC | 8 | Gin __, the latter two words of a G&T |
| 47% | PHRASE | 6 | The last two words of this clue, for example |
| 47% | NEE | 3 | Word between two surnames of a woman |
| 46% | IAM | 3 | First (and last) two words of "Green Eggs and Ham" |
| 46% | LABOURS | 7 | Word in the title of a Shakespeare comedy |
| 46% | SOX | 3 | Word in the names of two baseball teams |
| 46% | DAKOTA | 6 | Word in the names of two US states |