| 100% | COULTER | 7 | Author of "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" |
| 42% | ETAL | 4 | The AMA uses this abbr. with no period and if there are more than six authors, but only lists three of them in any case |
| 37% | PLANTS | 6 | What one is scared of if they have botanophobia |
| 37% | STRING | 6 | What one is scared of if they have linonophobia |
| 37% | NEEDLES | 7 | Objects one is scared of if they have belonephobia |
| 33% | PURITANS | 8 | Any form of pleasure is a sin to them |
| 33% | VETERANS | 8 | Many of them have been to war |
| 33% | DAYS | 4 | February will have 29 of them in 2024 |
| 33% | LIVES | 5 | Cats are said to have nine of them |
| 32% | JINXED | 6 | If you have lots of bad luck, you might be this |
| 32% | HUMANS | 6 | Ghosts are the souls of __ after they have died |
| 32% | LIVES | 5 | A cat is said to have nine of them |
| 32% | LIVES | 5 | A cat is said to have 60-Across of them |
| 31% | HUMANS | 6 | It is said that they use only 10% of their brains |
| 31% | ORCA | 4 | Animal whose brain has the most gray matter of any mammal |
| 31% | SECRET | 6 | Three people can keep one if two of them are dead |
| 31% | SECRETS | 7 | Two people can keep these, if one of them is dead |
| 31% | SECRETS | 7 | Two people can keep these if one of them is dead |
| 31% | WIVES | 5 | Larry King had eight of them (although two were the same) |
| 31% | XXXXXX | 6 | What Democrats are said to be left of, and Republicans right of |
| 31% | SECRET | 6 | "Three may keep a ___, if two of them are dead": Benjamin Franklin |
| 31% | CDS | 3 | AOL is estimated to have sent out around a billion of them |
| 31% | STEPHENKING | 11 | Author of "It," based on whose books movies such as "The Shining" have been also been made: 2 wds. |
| 30% | SCOTTJUREK | 10 | American ultramarathoner and bestselling author of "Eat & Run" who has been a vegan since 1999: 2 wds. |
| 30% | CHEER | 5 | "I don't know if there'll be snow, but have a cup of ___" |
| 29% | ISLES | 5 | Sweden has more than 200,000 of them (of which only 1,000 are inhabited) |
| 29% | NUMBERS | 7 | What one is afraid of if they're arithmophobic |
| 29% | ANIMALS | 7 | What someone is afraid of if they're zoophobic |
| 29% | WITCHES | 7 | People one is afraid of if they're wiccaphobic |
| 29% | WHO | 3 | ''Am I supposed to have heard of them?'' |