| 100% | RAD | 3 | Another word commonly used by millennials to describe someone as being Cool, Hip or In Style |
| 33% | ELDERLY | 7 | Word to describe someone who is on in years |
| 30% | INEFFABLE | 9 | Too great to be expressed or described in words |
| 30% | SHOWY | 5 | A word used to describe someone who is flamboyant and theatrical (rhymes with "snowy") |
| 29% | SOS | 3 | Signal to be used by someone in dire straits |
| 28% | SHAKENBAKE | 10 | Breadcrumb coating brand ... or, as two words, what is found in the answers to starred clues |
| 28% | SCRABBLE | 8 | Board game developed by Alfred Butts in which numbered tiles with letters are used to form words |
| 28% | MISSIONIMPOSSIBLE | 17 | Popular action film franchise ... or what trying to find the item in this puzzle can be described as |
| 27% | APTAGRAM | 8 | Word or phrase whose letters can be rearranged to form another with a similar meaning, such as “moon starer” for “astronomer” |
| 27% | BEE | 3 | Busy as a ___, phrase used to describe someone very industrious or hardworking |
| 27% | MULE | 4 | Stubborn as a ___, phrase used to describe someone very obstinate or inflexible |
| 27% | SHIPSHAPE | 9 | In perfect order ... or, as two words, what's formed by applying the answers for the five starred clues to the circled letters |
| 27% | SENSEI | 6 | East Asian honorific that can be translated as "person born before another" and is now used in a similar way to "Mr." |
| 26% | HEAVYWEIGHT | 11 | Boxing class, also a word commonly used to refer to something that's "important or influential" |
| 25% | ETCHING | 7 | To make designs in metal or glass by using acid |
| 25% | MANTRA | 6 | Phrase or word that is used in meditation |
| 25% | NOBLER | 6 | Word in Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy |
| 25% | NEEDSADULTSUPERVISION | 21 | In other words, mom or dad will have to operate it |
| 25% | ACT | 3 | Pretend to be someone else, as in a movie |
| 25% | ACTS | 4 | Pretends to be someone else, as in a movie |
| 25% | EQUALS | 6 | Comes to, or is the same as, in math |
| 25% | YURT | 4 | Portable round tent commonly used as a dwelling by nomadic groups in Central Asia |
| 25% | ALIVE | 5 | "It's ___!" quote used by Gingy in "Shrek" that is a reference to "Frankenstein" |
| 24% | ULE | 3 | Suffix that means "diminutive" as used in words like glob or duct |
| 24% | BUSY | 4 | Word with 11a, which may be used to refer to someone with a packed schedule |
| 24% | ACHE | 4 | Word with "stomach" or "head," used as a common excuse to not go to school |
| 24% | OBLIVIATE | 9 | Spell used in "Harry Potter" to partially or completely erase someone's memory |
| 24% | IUS | 3 | Word for law as used in the Catholic Church, often preceding canonicum, sacrum, ecclesiasticum or divinum |
| 24% | SYNONYM | 7 | Word that shares a similar meaning to another one, as you would find in a thesaurus |
| 23% | OBEY | 4 | Verb that's not included in marriage vows as often as it used to be |