| 100% | SELFREFLECTION | 14 | "What aspect of your personality are you working on?" |
| 46% | EMAILS | 6 | What a lot of office work is spent on nowadays |
| 45% | MATHQUIZ | 8 | Handout on which you might be asked to show your work |
| 42% | TRAIL | 5 | Type of mix that will keep you going on your orientation course |
| 41% | ARM | 3 | The part of your body the elbow is on |
| 41% | HAT | 3 | "Home is where you lay your ___," idiom conveying a sense of home based on comfort and not upbringing |
| 40% | ALROKER | 7 | "And here's what's happening in your neck of the woods" weather personality on NBC's "Today" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | LIE | 3 | What you'd be embarrassed to be called on |
| 40% | LIE | 3 | What you wouldn't want to be called on |
| 39% | ANUT | 4 | What are you, some kind of ___? |
| 39% | MAT | 3 | What you wipe your shoes on |
| 39% | AUTO | 4 | What you might unthinkingly be on |
| 39% | REEDIT | 6 | What you might have to do when you find your earth-shattering column on dandelions is 372 words too long for the space allowed |
| 39% | RUG | 3 | What you would find on the floor of your living room |
| 39% | ALIBI | 5 | Response to "Where were you on the night of ...?" |
| 39% | ALARM | 5 | What you might set on your clock |
| 39% | SPHEREOFCONTROL | 15 | What you can decide on your own |
| 39% | OLDER | 5 | What you always get on your birthday |
| 39% | SPEC | 4 | What unpaid work might be done on |
| 38% | SAND | 4 | What castles on the beach are made of |
| 38% | AUNT | 4 | What your mother's sister is to you |
| 38% | AUNT | 4 | What your cousin’s mother is to you |
| 38% | NIECE | 5 | What your sibling's daughter is to you |
| 38% | SEAT | 4 | What a bottom may be on top of |
| 38% | TIGER | 5 | What Tony is, on boxes of Frosted Flakes |
| 38% | HAIR | 4 | What you find on your head |
| 38% | SHOE | 4 | What you wear on your foot |
| 38% | PASTE | 5 | What you put on your toothbrush |
| 37% | SAND | 4 | What some castles on the beach are made of |
| 37% | EUNUCHS | 7 | What the Unsullied warriors are on "Game of Thrones" |