| 100% | NEEDISAY | 8 | With 2-Down, "Want me to elaborate?" |
| 63% | IGO | 3 | "Shall ___ on?" ("Do you want me to continue?"): 2 wds. |
| 60% | CHEAPTRICK | 10 | Band with the 1979 hit "I Want You to Want Me": 2 wds. |
| 59% | BREAKFREE | 9 | I Want to __, Queen hit with vacuuming video |
| 59% | DROP | 4 | With 2-Down, write to somebody |
| 58% | NOWI | 4 | "___ lay me down to sleep ...": 2 wds. |
| 58% | NOWI | 4 | "___ lay me down to sleep...": 2 wds. |
| 58% | ILAY | 4 | "Now ___ me down to sleep ...": 2 wds. |
| 58% | THEBEATLES | 10 | Band with the 1963 hit "I Want to Hold Your Hand": 2 wds. |
| 56% | ILAY | 4 | "Now ___ me down to sleep.." (bedtime prayer): 2 wds. |
| 56% | ILAY | 4 | "Now ___ me down to sleep..." (bedtime prayer): 2 wds. |
| 56% | BAD | 3 | With 2-Down, what a villain may come to |
| 56% | WRONG | 5 | With 2-Down, bad thing to back, idiomatically |
| 56% | BEA | 3 | "When I grow up, I want to ___ doctor": 2 wds. |
| 55% | SPAREME | 7 | "___ the details! I don't want to know!": 2 wds. |
| 55% | IFI | 3 | "Would you come with me ___ asked you to?": 2 wds. |
| 55% | IMEAN | 5 | "What I wanted to say", in other words: 2 wds. |
| 55% | ISWEAR | 6 | A promise not to, with 2 Down |
| 55% | PAPA | 4 | With 2 Down, parents |
| 55% | IDO | 3 | Possible response to "Who wants to solve a crossword with me?" |
| 55% | SADEYES | 7 | 1979 #1 song with the lyric "Turn the other way / I don't want to see you cry" (2 wds.) |
| 54% | PORES | 5 | With 2 Down, studies closely |
| 54% | FOREIGNER | 9 | Rock band with 80s hit I Want To Know What Love Is |
| 54% | HEAVY | 5 | With 2-Down, phrase applicable to both iron and Iron Maiden |
| 53% | LAKE | 4 | With 2 Down, water bordering Cleveland |
| 53% | CHEAPTRICK | 10 | "I Want You to Want Me" band with an underhanded-sounding name |
| 53% | SPAREME | 7 | "Don't bother explaining, I don't want to hear it": 2 wds. |
| 53% | DURAN | 5 | With 2-Down, group with the only James Bond theme to hit #1 |
| 52% | TAKEME | 6 | "I want to go with you!" |
| 52% | DOG | 3 | With 2 Down, bookmark of a sort |