| Clue | 4-Letter Word |
% Correct |
| A large brass instrument | TUBA | | 82% |
| What a hard taskmaster cracks | WHIP | | 81.8% |
| Provide to a borrower | LEND | | 80.3% |
| Restore to health | CURE | | 79.5% |
| File folder protrusions | TABS | | 79% |
| Skin decorations, for short | TATS | | 78.7% |
| ★ He offered $100 million to Spain for this island, but they declined. ★ | CUBA | | 77.6% |
| Group of ball players | TEAM | | 77.4% |
| Six-sided regular polyhedron | CUBE | | 76.8% |
| Become part of a larger group (like Texas and the US in 1845) | JOIN | | 75.9% |
| Originate a phrase | COIN | | 75.6% |
| ★ Incumbent president ____ Tyler, at odds with his party, did not run. ★ | JOHN | | 75.1% |
| What Frosty is made of | SNOW | | 74.7% |
| Large containers where wine ferments | VATS | | 74.7% |
| ★ True to his promise, he did not seek a second one of these. ★ | TERM | | 74.4% |
| ★ Unlike William Howard Taft, he was relatively this. ★ | THIN | | 74.3% |
| ★ One of his rivals for the nomination: politician and general Lewis ____ (who did get the nomination in 1848) ★ | CASS | | 73.9% |
| Soldiers who returned from the Mexican War, for short | VETS | | 73.5% |
| There's no business like this business. | SHOW | | 72.4% |
| Watch over something, like a bar | TEND | | 71.8% |
| Be acquainted with | KNOW | | 71.6% |
| Roy ____, McCarthy era prosecutor | COHN | | 70.4% |
| ★ Like his mentor Andrew Jackson, he hailed from this state (abbrev.). ★ | TENN. | | 70.4% |
| ★ Aforementioned opponent Henry was a leader of this political party. ★ | WHIG | | 69.8% |
| Site for stitches | SEAM | | 69.2% |
| A migrating sea bird | TERN | | 68.9% |
| ★ As president, he did this to Congress's Rivers and Harbors Act. ★ | VETO | | 68% |
| Pygmalion author George Bernard, or Jaws and The Sting actor Robert | SHAW | | 67.8% |
| Something fake, possibly a pillow cover | SHAM | | 64.4% |
| Mother of Apollo and Artemis | LETO | | 64.4% |
| ★ His middle name (and his mother's maiden name); also a fort known for a precious metal ★ | KNOX | | 61.4% |
| Old Scottish word meaning to beg | THIG | | 59.7% |
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Quiz Updated Jan 20, 2017
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