| 100% | YES | 3 | ... and what it means |
| 69% | DANCE | 5 | What it means to "cut a rug" |
| 66% | ALOHA | 5 | It means "hello" and "goodbye" |
| 65% | REF | 3 | One who knows what it means to travel |
| 63% | OLD | 3 | What it takes years and years to grow |
| 61% | INNER | 5 | What endo- and ento- mean |
| 61% | ORELSE | 6 | "… and I mean it!" |
| 60% | DHARMA | 6 | In Buddhism, it means "cosmic law and order" |
| 60% | IFF | 3 | In mathematics, it means if and only if |
| 60% | TAP | 3 | It means "poke gently" reading forward and "touch gently" reading backward |
| 59% | DOES | 4 | "What ___ it mean?" |
| 59% | MEALS | 5 | What "board" means in "room and board" |
| 59% | TEA | 3 | What "chai" means in Urdu and Hindi |
| 59% | TRUISMS | 7 | "It is what it is" and others |
| 59% | CODEWORD | 8 | It may not mean what you think |
| 59% | MALT | 4 | What gives beer its sweetness and color |
| 59% | AVER | 4 | Say it and mean it |
| 59% | WARN | 4 | Cry wolf and mean it |
| 58% | STEEP | 5 | It rhymes with "cheap" and means the opposite |
| 58% | TYPO | 4 | What each starred clue — and its answer — contains |
| 57% | FOLIOS | 6 | What ff. means in world of printing and books |
| 57% | SEMANTICS | 9 | What does it all mean, this study will explain |
| 56% | NOISY | 5 | What "obstreperous" and "clamorous" both mean |
| 56% | NOISY | 5 | What "roisterous" and "boisterous" both mean |
| 56% | FAKE | 4 | What "faux" and "ersatz" mean |
| 56% | PEACE | 5 | What "salaam" and "shalom" mean |
| 56% | ICONCEDE | 8 | What laying a king on its side in chess means |
| 56% | LAW | 3 | What a bill becomes once it's passed and signed |
| 56% | RUST | 4 | What forms on steel when it gets wet and corrodes |
| 56% | LETMETRY | 8 | What an outstretched hand and an impatient expression might mean |