| 100% | ATONE | 5 | When the mouse ran down the clock |
| 98% | ATONE | 5 | When the mouse ran down the clock (2 wds.) |
| 72% | ATONE | 5 | When "the mouse ran down" |
| 63% | HICKORY | 7 | __ dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock |
| 61% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | Safely run down the clock, in football |
| 57% | TOOKAKNEE | 9 | Ran the clock down, in football |
| 57% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | Run the clock down, in football |
| 55% | ATONE | 5 | When the mouse was gone from the clock, according to the nursery rhyme |
| 47% | ATDUSK | 6 | When the sun goes down |
| 46% | DUST | 4 | When the ___ settles (calmed down) |
| 46% | ULNA | 4 | It runs down the arm |
| 46% | MANE | 4 | It runs down the neck |
| 46% | TEAR | 4 | Drop running down the cheek |
| 46% | INSEAM | 6 | It runs down the leg |
| 46% | TEARS | 5 | Drops running down the cheeks |
| 45% | DATELINE | 8 | It runs down the 180th meridian |
| 45% | REINS | 5 | They may run down the neck |
| 45% | REIN | 4 | It might run down the neck |
| 45% | RAILS | 5 | They often run down the stairs |
| 44% | KNEEL | 5 | Run out the clock in a football game, maybe |
| 44% | APENNINES | 9 | Italian mountain range running down the country |
| 44% | TEAR | 4 | Drop that might run down the face |
| 44% | EEK | 3 | Cry of fright when one sees 21-Down running across the floor |
| 44% | BERNIEBREWER | 12 | Miller Park MLB mascot who goes down a big yellow slide when the home team hits a home run (2 wds.) |
| 44% | BET | 3 | It's revealed when the chips are down |
| 44% | DATELINE | 8 | It runs down the middle of the Pacific |
| 44% | CHIRPS | 6 | Smoke detector sounds when the battery runs low |
| 44% | SOLD | 4 | Cry when an auctioneer brings down the gavel |
| 43% | ISTICKING | 9 | Time is running out, the clock __ |
| 43% | NOON | 4 | When the clock strikes twelve, perhaps |