| 100% | ACCOSTCUTTERS | 13 | What people waiting in a long line might do? |
| 65% | CONGA | 5 | What people in a line may be doing |
| 59% | TSA | 3 | A long line may be waiting for this, in brief |
| 53% | QUEUE | 5 | People waiting in a line |
| 48% | PRAY | 4 | What people do in a mosque |
| 46% | TRILL | 5 | What a wavy line may mean in music |
| 45% | ORDER | 5 | What a person might wait to take? |
| 44% | THEPAST | 7 | What a nostalgic person may be living in |
| 44% | COMA | 4 | What a person who's out may be in |
| 44% | SLOSH | 5 | What water in a bucket might do |
| 44% | SLOSH | 5 | What water in a pail may do |
| 43% | SNAPDECISION | 12 | What a person in an emergency might have to make |
| 43% | ODOR | 4 | What wavy lines might represent in a comic |
| 43% | SMELL | 5 | What wavy lines may indicate in a comic strip |
| 43% | NTH | 3 | Last in a long line |
| 43% | CONGAS | 6 | Dances in a long line |
| 42% | BAD | 3 | What gossip may put a person in/Where Santa puts some kids |
| 42% | STARE | 5 | What paintings in a haunted house might seem to do |
| 42% | IDLE | 4 | What a getaway car may be waiting in |
| 42% | ABET | 4 | What an accessory may do, in a sense |
| 42% | ACHE | 4 | What your feet might do after a long hike |
| 42% | DIVERGE | 7 | What two roads might do in a yellow wood |
| 42% | ANT | 3 | One in a long line of workers? |
| 42% | PILOT | 5 | First in a long line of sitcoms? |
| 41% | FOLD | 4 | What you might do to shirts before putting them in a suitcase |
| 41% | NAP | 3 | What an exhausted person may do in midafternoon |
| 40% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |
| 40% | IDO | 3 | What people wait to hear at a wedding |
| 40% | ART | 3 | What a creative person might make, and a word hidden in 17a, 30a, 43a, 11d, 29d, 39d |
| 39% | HAND | 4 | "Raise your ___," what students might be instructed to do in school if they have a question |