| 100% | UTENSIL | 7 | Any of the implements used in a kitchen |
| 60% | STUMP | 5 | Any of the three upright wooden sticks used in cricket to form part of a wicket |
| 53% | FOWL | 4 | Any of the meats in a turducken, e.g. |
| 52% | LOBE | 4 | Any of a trio in the cerebellum |
| 51% | SAND | 4 | Makeup of the pit used in a long jump track and field event |
| 50% | STOOGE | 6 | Any of a classic, pie in the face, slapstick trio |
| 50% | NMI | 3 | Letters used in the absence of a letter |
| 49% | BREAD | 5 | ___ crumbs, ingredient used in the stuffing of a roast turkey |
| 49% | WAVEFRONT | 9 | Any one of the concentric circles in a ripple, in physics |
| 48% | CANISTER | 8 | One of a set in the kitchen |
| 48% | OAR | 3 | Implement used in a kayak |
| 48% | RABBITFUR | 9 | The pelt of a bunny, once used widely in fashion |
| 48% | TRADE | 5 | Tools of the ___ (items used in a particular occupation) |
| 48% | CRUCIFER | 8 | Any of various plants of the cabbage family with four petals arranged in a cross |
| 47% | ASTERISK | 8 | Any of the symbols in the title "M*A*S*H" |
| 47% | ORPHAN | 6 | Any of the Baudelaire children in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" |
| 47% | OCCUPANCY | 9 | The percentage of a hotel's rooms that are in use |
| 47% | TOASTER | 7 | Source of a burning smell in the kitchen, maybe |
| 47% | FIERI | 5 | Guy who spends a lot of time in the kitchen |
| 46% | PISTON | 6 | Any of the "Bad Boys" in the 1980s-'90s N.B.A. |
| 46% | VIDEONASTY | 10 | Any of several graphic horror films that sparked a moral panic in the U.K. in the eighties, colloquially |
| 45% | AET | 3 | One of the abbreviations used for a paraprofessional educator, a foreign national working in a Japanese classroom |
| 45% | TURPETH | 7 | Plant of the morning glory family whose root was formerly used in medicine as a mild laxative |
| 45% | TAP | 3 | Source of beer on a keg or source of water in the kitchen |
| 45% | CUE | 3 | Long tapered rod used to strike a ball in the game of snooker |
| 45% | CUE | 3 | Long, tapered rod used to strike a ball in the game of snooker |
| 45% | PESO | 4 | Coin used in Chiapas that has a stylized image of the "Ring of Splendor of the Sun Stone" |
| 45% | PREMOLAR | 8 | Any one of the eight teeth in a human adult situated between the first molars and the canines |
| 45% | ROLEREVERSAL | 12 | Plot device used in "Freaky Friday" ... or a hint to the interior of 20-, 26- or 42-Across |
| 45% | MINER | 5 | Any of the dwarfs in "Snow White" |