| 100% | ASIDE | 5 | Actor's line heard by the audience but not the other characters |
| 84% | ASIDE | 5 | Line heard by the audience but not by other characters |
| 59% | ASIDE | 5 | Remark in a stage play intended to be heard by the audience alone, not the other characters |
| 57% | ASIDE | 5 | Line that the audience hears, but the other characters don't |
| 52% | ASIDE | 5 | It's ostensibly not heard by the other actors onstage |
| 45% | ASIDE | 5 | Stage whisper that the audience can hear but the other characters can't |
| 42% | ASIDE | 5 | Actor's line directed to the audience |
| 40% | ASIDE | 5 | Line spoken by an actor to the audience |
| 38% | ASIDE | 5 | Line that other actors pretend not to hear |
| 38% | ASIDE | 5 | Actor's line to the audience |
| 37% | NARRATOR | 8 | Character who's heard but not seen |
| 35% | VOICEOVER | 9 | Job for an actor who’s heard but not seen |
| 35% | VOICEACTOR | 10 | One who's seen but not heard? Just the opposite! |
| 34% | MEN | 3 | "The Hollow ___," poem by T.S. Eliot which has the famous lines "...This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper" |
| 34% | CARAVEL | 7 | The Niña or the Pinta, but not the Santa Maria, by design |
| 33% | OFFSTAGE | 8 | Not seen by the theater audience |
| 33% | KYOTO | 5 | City that a 1997 agreement was named after that's been subsequently signed by 192 parties — but not the US |
| 33% | CAMECLOSE | 9 | Missed the mark, but not by much |
| 33% | ASIDES | 6 | Comments spoken directly to the audience, not to another character |
| 32% | SKIN | 4 | "...not be judged by the color of their ___, but by the content of their character": MLK |
| 32% | OAR | 3 | Tool used by most of a rowing team, but not the coxswain |
| 32% | WONONPOINTS | 11 | Was victorious in the ring, but not by a knockout |
| 32% | BELL | 4 | "Saved by the ___," popular sitcom where Mark-Paul Gosselaar's character directly addresses the audience many times |
| 31% | BOGIE | 5 | Actor's nickname heard in the song "Key Largo" |
| 31% | RADAR | 5 | Only regular "M*A*S*H" character played by the same actor in both the film and TV series |
| 31% | BILLYMADISON | 12 | Adam Sandler comedy featuring a cameo by actor Steve Buscemi as the title character's former classmate (2 wds.) |
| 31% | ALPHA | 5 | Character in "The Iliad" but not "The Odyssey"? |
| 30% | TITULAR | 7 | Like the characters Romeo and Juliet, but not Mercutio or Tybalt |
| 30% | SVEN | 4 | Character played by two actors in the Frozen musical |
| 30% | CORALINE | 8 | Dark fantasy children's novella by Neil Gaiman which follows the titular character to the "Other World" |