| 100% | CUSS | 4 | With 4-Down, upbraid in no uncertain terms |
| 71% | HOLLEREDAT | 10 | Upbraided in no uncertain terms |
| 64% | BASH | 4 | Criticize in no uncertain terms (come down hard on) |
| 57% | EXPLICITLY | 10 | In no uncertain terms |
| 56% | SOUNDOFF | 8 | Express one's opinion in no uncertain terms |
| 55% | ROAST | 5 | Criticize in no uncertain terms |
| 55% | DAMN | 4 | Denounce in no uncertain terms |
| 55% | RIPS | 4 | Criticizes in no uncertain terms |
| 55% | BASH | 4 | Criticize in no uncertain terms |
| 55% | YELL | 4 | Protest in no uncertain terms |
| 55% | BLAST | 5 | Criticize in no uncertain terms |
| 55% | AVER | 4 | State in no uncertain terms |
| 55% | YELLAT | 6 | Chastise in no uncertain terms |
| 55% | RIP | 3 | Criticize in no uncertain terms |
| 55% | REAM | 4 | Bawl out in no uncertain terms |
| 55% | SCATHE | 6 | Tell off in no uncertain terms |
| 55% | ARTICULATE | 10 | State in no uncertain terms, say |
| 54% | STRIDENT | 8 | Like criticism made in no uncertain terms |
| 46% | VIS | 3 | With 4-Down, in relation to |
| 45% | GABRIELLE | 9 | With 4-Down, congresswoman in 2011 news |
| 45% | CRIED | 5 | With 4-Down, threw in the towel |
| 45% | CORN | 4 | With 4-Down, farm attraction in autumn months |
| 44% | PEARL | 5 | With 4 Down, site of the attack that on today's date in 1941 lead to the US entering WWII |
| 44% | STUDY | 5 | With 4-Down, class period with no fixed subject |
| 44% | THE | 3 | With 4-Down, last two words in a story |
| 44% | LIFE | 4 | With 4-Down, nifty everyday shortcut, in modern parlance |
| 44% | KOI | 3 | With 4-Down, natural habitat in some office lobbies |
| 44% | ART | 3 | With 4-Down, sketchy thing to take in school? |
| 44% | TERMS | 5 | In no uncertain ___ |
| 43% | HORSE | 5 | With 4-Down, Sovereignty won two big ones in 2025 |