| 100% | MARRYME | 7 | Words from an aspiring fiancé |
| 65% | INTRO | 5 | Words from an emcee |
| 65% | IMAFAN | 6 | Words from an admirer |
| 64% | IMHURT | 6 | Words from an insulted friend |
| 64% | TIAMO | 5 | Words from an Italian lover |
| 64% | IMHONORED | 9 | Words from an award winner |
| 64% | IVEMOVEDON | 10 | Words from an ex-lover |
| 64% | MEFIRST | 7 | Words from an elbower, maybe |
| 63% | BOO | 3 | Word from an unhappy audience |
| 63% | DANKE | 5 | Word from an appreciative Austrian |
| 63% | IMLATE | 6 | Words from an impatient commuter, perhaps |
| 62% | DEMO | 4 | Handout from an aspiring musician |
| 61% | ODE | 3 | Some words from an admirer |
| 61% | TEAMO | 5 | Affectionate words from an esposo |
| 59% | CIAO | 4 | Affected parting word from an American socialite |
| 57% | ICOMEINPEACE | 12 | Words from one extending an olive branch |
| 56% | DAYO | 4 | Word from an old Harry Belafonte song heard in some stadium chants (Hyph.) |
| 54% | KAYAKS | 6 | Boats whose name comes from an Inuktitut word |
| 51% | OTTAWA | 6 | Capital whose name comes from an Algonquin word for "to trade" |
| 51% | SELL | 4 | Word in an urgent text from your broker, maybe |
| 49% | WECARE | 6 | Words of support from an organization |
| 49% | HYGGE | 5 | Word, originally from Danish, meaning an ambiance of coziness and contentment |
| 49% | IWIN | 4 | Words not heard from an 18-Across |
| 48% | FUSILLI | 7 | Type of pasta in a corkscrew shape from an Italian word meaning ‘little spindles’ |
| 48% | STAN | 4 | Word meaning "superfan" that comes from the title of an Eminem song |
| 48% | DONUT | 5 | Word from an abbreviation used in the early 20th century by the company that made machines that created these common pastries |
| 46% | CAMERA | 6 | Name for an instrument that comes from the Latin word for "chamber" |
| 45% | THE | 3 | Word that distinguishes an H.G. Wells novel from a similarly titled Ralph Ellison novel |
| 45% | WOW | 3 | Remark from SpongeBob while reading an upside-down tattoo of the word mom |
| 44% | ETTU | 4 | Words from Caesar |