| 100% | HATE | 4 | Word on Mitchum's hand in Night of the Hunter |
| 57% | HATE | 4 | Word on Harry Powell's left fingers in "The Night of the Hunter" |
| 43% | ROBERTMITCHUM | 13 | "The Night of the Hunter" actor who played convict Max Cady in "Cape Fear": 2 wds. |
| 42% | GONZO | 5 | In the style of Hunter S. Thompson, say |
| 42% | ALA | 3 | Words on a menu which means "cooked in the style of": 2 wds. |
| 41% | SAM | 3 | Jon Snow's pal in the Night's Watch on "Game of Thrones," for short |
| 41% | FOMO | 4 | Reason to hit the town on a Friday night instead of staying home in your p.j.’s |
| 41% | CENT | 4 | Word that appears in capital letters on the back of a penny |
| 40% | ROAM | 4 | Last word in the first line of "Home on the Range" |
| 40% | ADANA | 5 | City in S Turkey on the Seyhan River east of Tarsus |
| 40% | SYNE | 4 | Word sung on the last night of the year |
| 40% | TRUST | 5 | Word on the front of all U.S. coins |
| 40% | GOD | 3 | Word on the obverse of every U.S. coin |
| 40% | PULL | 4 | Word on the front door of the Midvale School for the Gifted, in a famous "Far Side" cartoon |
| 40% | AGEE | 4 | "The Night of the Hunter" screenwriter |
| 39% | NEE | 3 | Word on the first line of Mirren's Wikipedia article |
| 39% | MITCHUM | 7 | "The Night of the Hunter" star, 1955 |
| 39% | AGEE | 4 | "The Night of the Hunter" screenwriter James |
| 39% | ANT | 3 | Insect seen in the word "Antarctica" but not on the continent of Antarctica |
| 39% | OPEN | 4 | Word on the other side of a store's "Closed" sign |
| 39% | AWFUL | 5 | Like the shows "Here's Where I Belong" in '68 and "La Strada" in '69, both of which lasted one night on Broadway |
| 38% | ROMERO | 6 | George who directed "Night of the Living Dead," or Cesar who played the Joker on TV's "Batman" in the '60s |
| 38% | TITANIA | 7 | Queen of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 38% | OBERON | 6 | King of the fairies in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| 38% | YESES | 5 | Three of the last seven words in Joyce's "Ulysses" |
| 38% | KNIVES | 6 | Night of the Long __, incident in Germany in 1934 |
| 38% | DES | 3 | Word in the name of Iowa’s capital city |
| 38% | CRUE | 4 | Word in the name of Nikki Sixx’s band |
| 38% | ONATHEME | 8 | Words in the title of a composer's homage |
| 38% | ALEC | 4 | Baldwin who was the first performer on screen in the current season of "Saturday Night Live" |