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| 55% | HONESTWOMAN | 11 | What a girl becomes after marriage, in an old expression |
| 53% | ONEFLESH | 8 | What a man and a woman become in marriage |
| 51% | MELT | 4 | What a frozen treat will become if left in the sun |
| 50% | GREMLINS | 8 | What Mogwai become if they’re fed after midnight, in a 1984 film |
| 48% | LANDOWNER | 9 | What a freed slave was to become in an 1865 order that was eventually overturned |
| 48% | SEED | 4 | What is planted in the soil and could become a tree? |
| 48% | DAM | 3 | What a beaver builds in a river |
| 48% | NOSE | 4 | What a hyphen represents in a smiley |
| 48% | FURBALL | 7 | What a bezoar is in a cat |
| 48% | EGG | 3 | What a bird lays in a nest |
| 48% | OIL | 3 | What a dipstick checks in a car |
| 48% | MESS | 4 | What a slob makes in a room |
| 48% | OIL | 3 | What a dipstick checks in a vehicle |
| 48% | LAW | 3 | What the bill becomes at the end of “I’m Just a Bill,” in “Schoolhouse Rock” |
| 47% | GEM | 3 | What a jeweler places in a ring setting |
| 47% | NORUNS | 6 | What a pitcher allows in a baseball shutout |
| 47% | ROCK | 4 | What a fist symbolizes in a certain game |
| 47% | UPBOW | 5 | What a V means in a violin score |
| 47% | BUTTERFLY | 9 | What a caterpillar becomes |
| 46% | GEAR | 4 | What a driver shifts in a manual transmission car |
| 46% | TESTIMONY | 9 | What a witness states in a court of law |
| 46% | DEATHRATE | 9 | Number of deceased people in a year |
| 46% | CALENDAR | 8 | It tracks the months in a year |
| 46% | WEEK | 4 | One of about 52 in a year |
| 46% | KATE | 4 | Singer Bush whose "Running Up That Hill" became a hit again in 2022 after 37 years |
| 46% | TENT | 4 | What a camper sleeps in |
| 46% | MUD | 3 | What a pig wallows in |
| 46% | NAIL | 4 | What a hammer pounds in |
| 46% | THENOW | 6 | What a hippie lives in? |