| 100% | OVEN | 4 | A kiln is one of these, used for wood or clay |
| 43% | INJECTION | 9 | A syringe is used to give one of these |
| 42% | CABARET | 7 | Life is one of these, or so sang Liza Minnelli |
| 42% | PICTURE | 7 | One of these is worth a thousand words |
| 42% | WINNER | 6 | One of these is sometimes given a "chicken dinner" |
| 40% | ACC | 3 | You open one of these at a bank, for short |
| 40% | SANDPAPER | 9 | Used for hand- or machine-smoothing of wood |
| 40% | HAIRBAND | 8 | Use one of these to tie a ponytail |
| 40% | CHECKMATE | 9 | One ending for a classic board game - another of which (when a player resigns) is represented visually six times in this puzzle |
| 40% | SMILE | 5 | Let one of these be your umbrella on a rainy day |
| 40% | FANG | 4 | One of four for a bat or a cat |
| 40% | NUT | 3 | Reggie Jackson was one of these in 1966 when he played Class A ball with Modesto |
| 40% | YEW | 3 | A kind of wood that is used for bows (rhymes with "new") |
| 39% | TAROTCARD | 9 | One of 78 in a deck used for fortune-telling |
| 39% | RIGHTANGLE | 10 | One of four for a square … or 32-Down, literally? |
| 39% | WING | 4 | One of a pair that an ostrich uses for balance |
| 39% | INJECTION | 9 | A syringe is used for this |
| 39% | ROSEPETAL | 9 | One of what is sprinkled down aisle or on a bed |
| 39% | CANISTEALYOUFORASECOND | 22 | Request for one-on-one time in the "Bachelor" TV franchise … or a phonetic hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | HEIRS | 5 | Ones gathering for the reading of a will |
| 38% | REPTILE | 7 | A snake or lizard is this class of animal |
| 38% | IDEA | 4 | Using a CFL bulb to represent one of these instead of an incandescent bulb might be a great one in itself! |
| 38% | RATIO | 5 | Pi is one, for the circumference of a circle to its diameter |
| 37% | COT | 3 | A sleeping bag might be used on top of one |
| 37% | DRAY | 4 | A group of squirrels is called a scurry or this |
| 37% | HRS | 3 | There are 24 of these in a day, for short |
| 37% | ALIENS | 6 | One of the eggs used in this 1986 film is now exhibited at the Smithsonian |
| 37% | BARBECUE | 8 | A long fork is used in this type of meat cooking |
| 37% | IAMB | 4 | One-quarter of "Whose woods these are I think I know" |
| 37% | ICE | 3 | A drink is incomplete without a cube or two of this |