| 100% | WIT | 3 | "___ has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words": Dorothy Parker |
| 30% | ROLLINGSTONE | 12 | Biweekly pop culture magazine that has been in publication since 1967 and shares its name with a legendary rock band: 2 wds. |
| 30% | SCRABBLE | 8 | Words With Friends is based on it |
| 30% | DEMAND | 6 | In economics, it is juxtaposed with supply |
| 30% | CHAD | 4 | It could have been pregnant in Florida |
| 30% | SOAP | 4 | It has suds and is sold in bars |
| 30% | FIFTH | 5 | It may be taken in court, with "the" |
| 30% | BIRD | 4 | It may be flipped in anger, with "the" |
| 30% | ROAR | 4 | Word rhyming with "ignore" in "I Am Woman" |
| 29% | ICEDTEA | 7 | It is mixed with lemonade in an Arnold Palmer |
| 29% | ANTE | 4 | You have to be upfront with it |
| 29% | ANS | 3 | It may be filled in with a No. 2 pencil |
| 29% | STOPMAKINGSENSE | 15 | No longer be comprehensible ... and, with its first word divided in three parts, a hint to how to read this puzzle's title |
| 28% | BIKINI | 6 | It has a top and a bottom with nothing in between |
| 28% | SIC | 3 | Word meaning "that error is how it was written," in print |
| 28% | MOON | 4 | It is "sick and pale with grief" in Romeo and Juliet |
| 28% | BRAIN | 5 | It has been called "the most complex object in the known universe" |
| 28% | WILCO | 5 | Word in signalling indicating that a message received will be complied with |
| 28% | SNARE | 5 | It might be imitated with a "pf" or "kch" sound, in beatboxing |
| 28% | NEEDSADULTSUPERVISION | 21 | In other words, mom or dad will have to operate it |
| 28% | AIDS | 4 | There are over 1.2 million people in the US who are living with this disease, 1 in 8 of them don't know they have it yet |
| 28% | ROGER | 5 | Word used in signalling indicating that a message has been received and understood |
| 28% | SKA | 3 | It's said to have been born on Orange Street, in Kingston, Jamaica |
| 27% | PROFESSORPLUM | 13 | He might have done it with the candlestick in the study |
| 27% | EASY | 4 | Cakewalk word that goes with and can be found in "peasy" |
| 27% | ETCH | 4 | Word with ''eat'' in its etymology |
| 27% | SPIN | 4 | With the circled word in the grid's center, what each circled word is? |
| 27% | RADIO | 5 | It can be two-way ... with a hint to four squares in this puzzle |
| 27% | URN | 3 | Subject of the poem with the words "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" |
| 27% | EASEFUL | 7 | "I have been half in love with ___ Death": "Ode to a Nightingale" |