| 100% | VERB | 4 | Action word like "go," "do," or "be" |
| 67% | VERB | 4 | Action word like "read" or "write" |
| 67% | VERB | 4 | Action word like "run" or "fly" |
| 64% | VERB | 4 | Word like "be" or "go" |
| 62% | SITTING | 7 | Action word that goes with baby, dog or house |
| 60% | VERB | 4 | Action or doing word in a sentence |
| 58% | ATTACK | 6 | To be aggressive with actions or words |
| 58% | VERB | 4 | Word like ''bring'' or ''be'' |
| 56% | HOW | 3 | Question word or the way that something is done |
| 53% | YOU | 3 | "___ gotta be kidding?"... or word that sounds like the second letter of 25a |
| 52% | HUMAN | 5 | Word that can go before "being" or "nature" |
| 52% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 50% | UGH | 3 | Word like "Yuck!" or "Ick!" |
| 49% | PLURAL | 6 | Word like "people" or "persons" |
| 49% | BACKFORMATION | 13 | Word like "burgle" or "buttle" |
| 49% | PREPOSITION | 11 | Word like "in" or "on" |
| 49% | UGH | 3 | Word like "ick" or "yuck" |
| 49% | LOAN | 4 | Word like "cafe" or "bazaar" |
| 49% | VERB | 4 | Word like "buy" or "sell" |
| 49% | TRY | 3 | "Do or do not. There is no ___" (words of wisdom from Yoda) |
| 49% | CONJ | 4 | Word like "and" or "or": Abbr. |
| 49% | ADJ | 3 | Word like "happy" or "sappy": Abbr. |
| 48% | WALLPAPER | 9 | *"Either that ___ goes, or I do" (Oscar Wilde's reputed last words) |
| 48% | RISEANDFALL | 11 | Move like tides and stock prices, or what the hidden words do in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 48% | HEARINGDOGS | 11 | Certain assistance animals ... or what you might be doing when you say the pairs of shaded words out loud? |
| 48% | ATTENDING | 9 | Going to or being present at an event |
| 48% | VERB | 4 | Word like "make" or "break," e.g. |
| 48% | ETH | 3 | Biblical suffix with do or go |
| 48% | NOR | 3 | Negative word like neither or not |
| 47% | HUMAN | 5 | Word that can go before "rights" or "being" |