| 100% | PUSH | 4 | Word before "one's luck" or "one's buttons" |
| 64% | BAD | 3 | Word before egg or luck |
| 64% | NOSUCH | 6 | Words before thing or luck |
| 61% | DUMB | 4 | Word before luck or cluck |
| 61% | LADY | 4 | Word before Luck or Gaga |
| 61% | DUMB | 4 | Word before luck or struck |
| 59% | PAR | 3 | Word before three, four or five, but not one |
| 59% | HEDGE | 5 | Word before "fund" or "one's bets" |
| 56% | DUMB | 4 | Word after play or before luck |
| 55% | POT | 3 | Word before "belly" or "luck" |
| 55% | SEEYOUINCOURT | 13 | Words before legal action … or what one might exclaim to 19-, 24- and 45-Across? |
| 54% | TRADER | 6 | Word before Joe's or Vic's |
| 54% | POT | 3 | Word before "luck" or "roast" |
| 54% | PANIC | 5 | Word before "room" or "button" |
| 54% | DAY | 3 | Word before or after "one" |
| 53% | MRS | 3 | Word before Fields or Paul's |
| 53% | COMIC | 5 | Word that can come before book or strip, or a nickname of WWI's Sopwith Camel biplane, or one who will merely stand-up |
| 51% | ROSY | 4 | Word that describes a red apple or one's cheek |
| 51% | POTATO | 6 | Children's word after one, two or three |
| 50% | VAN | 3 | Word after camper or before Camp's |
| 50% | ITSA | 4 | Midwife's words before boy or girl |
| 50% | SPIN | 4 | Test one's luck with a bottle or a wheel |
| 50% | ISAID | 5 | Words spoken before raising one's voice, maybe |
| 49% | IWASLIKE | 8 | Words before one self-quotes, maybe |
| 48% | BONE | 4 | Word before -dry or -tired |
| 48% | ATTA | 4 | Word before "boy!" or "girl!" |
| 48% | BON | 3 | Word before appétit or voyage |
| 48% | HAPPY | 5 | Word before "birthday!" or "anniversary!" |
| 48% | SNO | 3 | Word before -cone or -Caps |
| 48% | WHATS | 5 | Word before "up?" or "new?" |