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| 46% | ODDS | 4 | What Han Solo never wants to be told |
| 45% | CITY | 4 | What an honored visitor may be given a key to |
| 43% | REGISPHILBIN | 12 | Original "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" host who was an NBC page in 1955: 2 wds. |
| 42% | FIREMAN | 7 | What many a young boy wants to grow up to be |
| 42% | SEDATED | 7 | What the Ramones wanted to be in a 1978 hit song |
| 42% | ANGEL | 5 | "Do you want to be an ___, do you want to be a star?" (lyric from a 1973 song) |
| 42% | LAW | 3 | What the bill wants to be, in "I'm Just a Bill" |
| 42% | CHARLENE | 8 | Singer with a one hit wonder I've Never Been to Me |
| 41% | NLER | 4 | What an A is not |
| 40% | LANDOWNER | 9 | What a freed slave was to become in an 1865 order that was eventually overturned |
| 40% | WHO | 3 | "___ Wants to Be a Millionaire" |
| 40% | TETRIS | 6 | Its players never want to be at the top |
| 39% | IRE | 3 | "Who wants to be a milliona___" |
| 39% | LIFELINES | 9 | "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" aids |
| 39% | FINALANSWER | 11 | "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" catchphrase |
| 39% | PHONEAFRIEND | 12 | "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?" lifeline |
| 39% | GSN | 3 | "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" channel |
| 39% | EARTHA | 6 | "I Want to Be Evil" singer Kitt |
| 39% | MEMORY | 6 | Answer to the riddle "I form in an instant and last a lifetime. What am I?" |
| 38% | TRIVIAGAME | 10 | "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," e.g. |
| 38% | LIFELINE | 8 | Aid on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" |
| 38% | BARGRAPH | 8 | "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" lifeline chart |
| 38% | GSN | 3 | "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" cable channel |
| 38% | CAT | 3 | "Ev'rybody Wants To Be a ___" (Disney song) |
| 38% | CARBONFOOTPRINT | 15 | What an environmentalist wants to reduce |
| 38% | AGILE | 5 | What an acrobat needs to be |
| 38% | BOWSTRING | 9 | What an arrow is nocked to |
| 38% | CHAIN | 5 | What a "series" of fools may be called, according to an Aretha Franklin song? |
| 38% | VIEIRA | 6 | Former "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" host Meredith |