| 100% | COSTS | 5 | What businesses try to minimize |
| 59% | SPLASH | 6 | What a diver tries to minimize when hitting the water |
| 53% | COSTS | 5 | Efficiency experts try to minimize them |
| 52% | THES¢ | 5 | What foxhounds try to catch |
| 52% | PAR | 3 | What golfers try to break |
| 52% | ORE | 3 | What miners try to find |
| 52% | AHEAD | 5 | What most try to get |
| 52% | FISH | 4 | What anglers try to catch |
| 52% | AIR | 3 | What skateboarders try to catch |
| 51% | TDS | 3 | What quarterbacks try to score (Abbr.) |
| 51% | THENOW | 6 | What meditators try to live in |
| 51% | VAULTS | 6 | What safecrackers try to break into |
| 51% | PINS | 4 | What bowlers try to knock down |
| 50% | ASSAY | 5 | Try to find out what's inside |
| 50% | GILDTHELILY | 11 | Try to improve what is already beautiful |
| 50% | FAMEANDFORTUNE | 14 | What many try to find in Hollywood |
| 50% | LEAD | 4 | What alchemists try to turn into gold |
| 50% | CRETE | 5 | What Icarus tried to fly away from |
| 49% | BIDS | 4 | What auctioneers try to elicit from their crowds |
| 49% | CUBA | 4 | What McKinley tried to buy for $300 million |
| 48% | PEEKUNDERWRAPS | 14 | Try to see what you're getting for Christmas? |
| 48% | BATHWATER | 9 | What people trying to relax might eventually find draining |
| 48% | QUESTIONTHEDUCK | 15 | Try to find out what's what at a pond? |
| 48% | GRILLPAN | 8 | Try to uncover the truth of what happened to Hook? |
| 48% | BAR | 3 | What you try to go under when doing the limbo |
| 48% | ROBOT | 5 | What you try to convince a captcha you are not |
| 47% | REASON | 6 | What "Why?" tries to uncover |
| 47% | PRY | 3 | Try to get to the bottom of someone else's business? |
| 47% | GETUP | 5 | What boxers try to do after being knocked down: 2 wds. |
| 46% | CANTTOPTHAT | 11 | “No use trying to beat what you just did” |