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| 52% | SHOW | 4 | What's put on in a theater |
| 48% | TRUELOVE | 8 | What "never runs smooth," in a 1963 Gene Pitney hit |
| 47% | EDT | 3 | What a farmer in Del. works on? |
| 47% | MYSIDE | 6 | What "time is on" in a 1964 Rolling Stones hit |
| 47% | ANNI | 4 | What candles on a cake represent in Calabria |
| 45% | ICONCEDE | 8 | What laying a king on its side in chess means |
| 45% | HAND | 4 | What a person in trouble -- or performing on stage -- wants |
| 45% | EASEL | 5 | What a painting in progress may be propped up on |
| 45% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |
| 45% | EGG | 3 | What a hen sits on in a nest |
| 45% | GAS | 3 | What a car runs on, usually |
| 45% | BOW | 3 | What a violinist may take on stage, in two different senses |
| 45% | PRIZE | 5 | What may be on the line in a competition |
| 44% | LASTLEG | 7 | What the anchor runs, in a relay |
| 44% | TRAIN | 5 | Mini locomotive that runs on a track ... and something you may find in 22a |
| 44% | TRAIN | 5 | Mini locomotive that runs on a track...and something you may find in 22a |
| 44% | MTETNA | 6 | What's found on a couple of plates in Italy? |
| 44% | SEASHELLS | 9 | What she sells on the seashore, in a tongue twister |
| 44% | SIGNATURE | 9 | What one puts on the dotted line, in a contract |
| 44% | PERCH | 5 | What a bird in a cage roosts on |
| 44% | ICE | 3 | What a pedestrian might slip on, in winter |
| 43% | PAULMCCARTNEY | 13 | 76-year-old singer who is still in a "Band on the Run": 2 wds. |
| 43% | HOMEPLATE | 9 | To score a run in baseball you must step on this |
| 43% | SIMS | 4 | Characters in a long-running game franchise |
| 43% | APES | 4 | Beasts in a long-running film franchise |
| 43% | PILLOW | 6 | What a head rests on in bed |
| 42% | BROOM | 5 | What a Quidditch player rides on, in Harry Potter books |
| 42% | CLOCK | 5 | What a mouse ran up, in a rhyme |
| 42% | LAVA | 4 | What erupted from a volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent starting in April |