| 100% | PANDA | 5 | Animal that's mostly white, helping it hide in its natural habitat |
| 44% | SQUID | 5 | Colossal ___, marine animal filmed in its natural habitat for the first time in 2025 |
| 42% | DIORAMA | 7 | Museum display such as that of an animal in its natural setting |
| 40% | RABBIT | 6 | White animal that's late in Alice in Wonderland |
| 39% | FOX | 3 | Red ___, wild animal that you may spot while on a road trip in its habitat |
| 38% | BEAR | 4 | American Black ___, wild animal that you may spot while on a road trip in its habitat |
| 38% | SYD | 3 | Name that's hidden in "Easy does it" |
| 38% | EARTH | 5 | The planet we reside in, that shows off its creative spirit in natural wonders, and a word with 16a hidden in it |
| 36% | SAFARI | 6 | Expedition for spotting animals in their natural habitat |
| 36% | SAFARI | 6 | Journey to observe animals in their natural habitat |
| 36% | CLAM | 4 | Animal that spends most of its life buried in the sand |
| 35% | STOAT | 5 | Animal that turns white in the winter |
| 35% | CAMEL | 5 | Animal that stores fat in its hump |
| 35% | MARSUPIAL | 9 | Animal that carries its young in a pouch |
| 34% | RHEA | 4 | Animal hidden in "overhead" (though it can't fly) |
| 34% | APARTMENT | 9 | Flat in a residential complex that might be a creative person's abode, and a word with 16a hidden in it |
| 34% | POLARBEAR | 9 | Big white animal that lives in the Arctic |
| 33% | ALLIGATOR | 9 | Animal that can grow up to 3,000 teeth in its lifetime |
| 33% | CAMEL | 5 | Humped desert animal in Ogden Nash's titular poem that pokes fun of its anatomy |
| 33% | HOMERANGE | 9 | Animal's natural habitat |
| 33% | SANDCAT | 7 | Animal named for the color of its fur and for its natural habitat |
| 33% | RHESUS | 6 | Animal that shares its name with a king of Thrace in the "Iliad" |
| 32% | FEDEX | 5 | Its logo hides an arrow in the white space |
| 32% | WOLF | 4 | Animal that's "ma'iingan" in Ojibwe |
| 32% | COW | 3 | Animal that's considered sacred in India |
| 32% | FOX | 3 | Animal that's unwelcome in a henhouse |
| 32% | SHARK | 5 | Animal that can go through over 20,000 (very sharp) teeth in its lifetime |
| 32% | EWES | 4 | Animals whose name sounds like a letter that doesn't appear in its name |
| 32% | IRAN | 4 | Tehran's land with a verb hidden in its name |
| 32% | DEER | 4 | Animal that's sometimes frozen in the headlights |