| 100% | FILIBUSTER | 10 | (n.) one destroying the non-thematic words in a crossword |
| 45% | ASSN | 4 | One of the A's in N.A.A.C.P.: Abbr. |
| 45% | FOR | 3 | A word between the two A's in N.A.A.C.P. |
| 45% | SPADE | 5 | One of the suits in a deck of cards, also word for shovel |
| 44% | END | 3 | Fitting last word in a crossword grid |
| 44% | LOSS | 4 | An overtime one counts as a point in the N.H.L. |
| 44% | SKYWRITER | 9 | One who scrawls words in the air with a plane |
| 42% | MRKRABS | 7 | Animated character who, in one episode, fills out a crossword with only the word money |
| 42% | LYRICS | 6 | The words in a song |
| 41% | SECRETMENU | 10 | The burger chain In-N-Out has a famous one |
| 41% | ARROW | 5 | The In-N-Out Burger logo has a yellow one |
| 41% | EAR | 3 | In one ___ and out the other (how a word may travel through someone's brain--or through this puzzle grid) |
| 41% | WITH | 4 | Penultimate word in a song about the 1-Across |
| 41% | PER | 3 | Word in the middle of a rate |
| 40% | EAST | 4 | One team in the N.B.A. All-Star Game, with "the" |
| 40% | MONTH | 5 | One of the twelve divisions in a year, and a word that has an obscure perfect rhyme with the word "oneth" |
| 40% | PETHORSE | 8 | Lucy, a Clydesdale, in the comic "Non Sequitur," for one |
| 40% | SCENT | 5 | Word in the title of a Pacino film |
| 40% | ALAI | 4 | Word in the name of a pelota game |
| 40% | ASS | 3 | Word in the etymology of a ''silly'' synonym |
| 40% | LABOURS | 7 | Word in the title of a Shakespeare comedy |
| 40% | FREE | 4 | Word in the middle of a bingo card |
| 40% | HAL | 3 | Name that's one of the halves of a word in this clue |
| 40% | ASA | 3 | Words in the middle of a simile: 2 wds. |
| 40% | ONATHEME | 8 | Words in the title of a composer's homage |
| 40% | STRAGGLER | 9 | In a foot race, the one who falls behind |
| 40% | FREE | 4 | Word in the center square of a bingo card |
| 40% | UPON | 4 | Word in the first sentence of a fairy tale |
| 40% | LIVE | 4 | Word in the corner of a TV news broadcast |
| 40% | LANES | 5 | Word in the name of many a bowling alley |