| 100% | LIFE | 4 | With 4-Down, nifty everyday shortcut, in modern parlance |
| 48% | QUIET | 5 | With 4-Down, do the absolute minimum at one's job, in modern lingo |
| 42% | SOY | 3 | With 4-Down, modern printing fluid |
| 41% | GABRIELLE | 9 | With 4-Down, congresswoman in 2011 news |
| 41% | CRIED | 5 | With 4-Down, threw in the towel |
| 41% | CUSS | 4 | With 4-Down, upbraid in no uncertain terms |
| 41% | CORN | 4 | With 4-Down, farm attraction in autumn months |
| 40% | PEARL | 5 | With 4 Down, site of the attack that on today's date in 1941 lead to the US entering WWII |
| 40% | KOI | 3 | With 4-Down, natural habitat in some office lobbies |
| 40% | ART | 3 | With 4-Down, sketchy thing to take in school? |
| 40% | VIS | 3 | With 4-Down, in relation to |
| 39% | HORSE | 5 | With 4-Down, Sovereignty won two big ones in 2025 |
| 39% | MILEY | 5 | With 4-Down, “Party in the U.S.A.” singer |
| 39% | LOUIS | 5 | With 4-Down, monarch with the longest verifiable reign in history |
| 39% | SETH | 4 | With 4-Down, actor who plays Steve Wozniak in "Steve Jobs" |
| 39% | THE | 3 | With 4-Down, last two words in a story |
| 38% | GLASS | 5 | With 4 Down, transparent swimmer |
| 38% | BATH | 4 | With 4 Down, Neutrogena product |
| 38% | MUSIC | 5 | With 4-Down, classic Broadway show set in River City, with "The" |
| 38% | BIBLE | 5 | With 4-Down, much of the Southeast U.S. is in it |
| 38% | NOOB | 4 | Tyro, in modern parlance |
| 38% | TEA | 3 | Gossip, in modern parlance |
| 38% | BAES | 4 | Sweethearts, in modern parlance |
| 38% | BAE | 3 | "Sweetie," in modern parlance |
| 38% | YEET | 4 | Throw, in modern parlance |
| 38% | BRAKE | 5 | With 4-Down, what may be cut to sabotage a car in movies |
| 38% | MIKE | 4 | With 4-Down, he and his pet tiger were featured in "The Hangover" |
| 38% | STRIP | 5 | With 4-Down, gambling game in which you might gradually lose it all? |
| 37% | SAFESPACE | 9 | Campus sanctuary, in modern parlance |
| 37% | COMECORRECT | 11 | Approach respectfully, in modern parlance |