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| 58% | THUNDER | 7 | What the N.B.A.'s SuperSonics became in 2008 |
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| 50% | RESTED | 6 | What the hare did in a race |
| 49% | ROAM | 4 | What the buffalo do, in a classic song |
| 49% | OVERLAP | 7 | What the circles in a Venn diagram do |
| 48% | TAKETH | 6 | What the Lord sometimes does, in a classical expression |
| 48% | OBEYS | 5 | What a participant in Yale's Milgram experiment of 1961 does, most of the time |
| 47% | SHEDS | 5 | What a hairy dog does in the spring |
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| 46% | ROW | 3 | What to do "gently down the stream," in a song |
| 46% | WEARIT | 6 | What to do "if the shoe fits," in a saying |
| 45% | MAKEFRIENDS | 11 | What the producers of a 10-season sitcom learned to do in kindergarten? |
| 45% | DILATES | 7 | What a pupil does in the dark |
| 44% | RHYME | 5 | What the first, second and fifth lines in a limerick do |
| 44% | MELTS | 5 | What a snowman does in the hot sun |
| 44% | JAMAL | 5 | ___ Crawford, the N.B.A.'s all-time leader in four-point plays |
| 44% | MINUET | 6 | It's done in the form of an S or a Z |
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| 43% | MELTING | 7 | What the clocks are doing in Dalí's famous artwork |
| 43% | OHIO | 4 | What the "O" stands for in Monopoly's B&O Railroad |
| 43% | EARNINGS | 8 | What the E means in a company's P/E ratio |
| 43% | SEALED | 6 | What the Go-Go's lips are in a 1981 song |
| 43% | MAV | 3 | Athlete in the N.B.A.'s Southwest Div. |
| 42% | NITRO | 5 | What the N stands for in TNT |
| 42% | KAREEM | 6 | Holder of the N.B.A.'s career points record before LeBron passed him in 2023 |
| 42% | BREAKALEG | 9 | Well wishes before a performance, and what you do by filling in the circles |
| 42% | UNIT | 4 | What the "U" in a computer's C.P.U. stands for |
| 42% | STEAM | 5 | What's in the air in a sauna |