| 100% | FLOPPYEARED | 11 | *Like a beagle but not a corgi |
| 70% | TAME | 4 | Like a housecat but not a wildcat |
| 70% | PALINDROMIC | 11 | Like a kayak but not a canoe |
| 70% | SPEEDY | 6 | Like a cheetah but not a sloth |
| 65% | MANED | 5 | Like a lion, but not a lioness |
| 65% | MALE | 4 | Like a peacock, but not a peahen |
| 65% | RREEEEDD | 8 | Like an oboe, but not a sax? |
| 64% | SCALY | 5 | Like the skin of a trout but not a shark |
| 64% | RAW | 3 | Like beef carpaccio, but not a seared steak |
| 64% | HARD | 4 | Like a diamond, but not talc |
| 62% | SONATA | 6 | Like a cantata but for instruments, not voices |
| 61% | INANIMATE | 9 | Like rocks or clocks, but not a fox or ox |
| 59% | TAME | 4 | Like a house cat but not a wildcat |
| 58% | TAME | 4 | Like a domesticated horse but not a wild one |
| 57% | ALIVE | 5 | Like a fox or ox, but not rocks or clocks |
| 53% | PER | 3 | "He's not a baker ___ se, but he does like to make cookies" |
| 52% | ITSAWASH | 8 | "Looks like we'll cover our costs but not make a profit" (3 wds.) |
| 52% | MEATEATER | 9 | A lion, but not a giraffe |
| 52% | CAPSULE | 7 | A medicine, but not a tablet |
| 51% | TRAGIC | 6 | Like "Hamlet" and "Julius Caesar," but not "A Comedy of Errors" |
| 51% | NFLER | 5 | A Lion, but not a Tiger, informally |
| 51% | SOME | 4 | A few but not all |
| 51% | RUNNER | 6 | Like a jogger but faster |
| 50% | DOT | 3 | Feature of a j but not a J |
| 50% | RIDGE | 5 | Feature of a quarter but not a nickel |
| 50% | VAN | 3 | A mover … but not a shaker, one hopes |
| 50% | TAIL | 4 | Feature of a kangaroo but not a koala |
| 50% | ARTICLE | 7 | A, e.g., but not A+ |
| 50% | TREELESS | 8 | Like a plain, not a forest |
| 50% | ION | 3 | B+, but not A- |