| 100% | ASTERISKS | 9 | What curses might be written with |
| 67% | ICING | 5 | What "Happy Anniversary!" may be written with |
| 61% | OPENARMS | 8 | What one might be welcomed with |
| 61% | MARSALA | 7 | What tiramisu may be spiked with |
| 61% | HANDSAWS | 8 | What fellers may be skilled with |
| 61% | TASERS | 6 | What suspects may be charged with |
| 59% | DUO | 3 | Its name may be written with an ampersand |
| 59% | STONE | 5 | What things might be written in |
| 57% | ASL | 3 | Communication method that may be written with Stokoe notation, in brief |
| 57% | NENE | 4 | Bird whose name may be written with two diacritics called kahakos |
| 56% | RANSOM | 6 | Kind of note that might be written with letters clipped from a magazine |
| 55% | ODE | 3 | What might be written to a famous person |
| 54% | CEREALBOWL | 10 | What might be filled with flakes |
| 54% | CAB | 3 | What may be caught with bare hands? |
| 53% | MEASLES | 7 | What might be treated with vitamin A megadoses |
| 53% | SPUR | 4 | What might be used with a "Giddy-up!" |
| 53% | CHESSGAME | 9 | What may be drawn with black and white? |
| 53% | PEN | 3 | What may be filled with ink … or oink |
| 52% | EAR | 3 | What might be drawn with a "C" in cartoons |
| 52% | MED | 3 | What a script might be written for |
| 52% | ORGAN | 5 | What a fugue may be written for |
| 52% | SPEC | 4 | What a script may be written on |
| 52% | NOTECARD | 8 | What a recipe may be written on |
| 52% | ESS | 3 | What might be confused with "5" on a digital display |
| 51% | ICING | 5 | What "Happy Birthday" might be written in |
| 51% | PEN | 3 | What you might write in a diary with |
| 50% | PAUSES | 6 | What nervous conversations may be filled with |
| 50% | ENAMEL | 6 | What Venetian glass may be decorated with |
| 50% | NOTECARDS | 9 | What story points might be written on in writers’ rooms |
| 47% | DUI | 3 | What a drunken motorist may be charged with: Abbr. |