| 100% | BARKS | 5 | Boxers' reactions to the bell? |
| 60% | UGH | 3 | Reaction to the revolting |
| 60% | BRR | 3 | Reaction to the cold |
| 60% | HOWNOVEL | 8 | Reaction to the unexpected |
| 60% | AWE | 3 | Reaction to the sublime |
| 59% | MANIA | 5 | Reaction to the Beatles, once |
| 59% | AWE | 3 | Reaction to the Grand Canyon, maybe |
| 59% | AWE | 3 | Reaction to the Northern Lights, perhaps |
| 57% | MANIA | 5 | Reaction to the Beatles in the nineteen-sixties |
| 57% | MANIA | 5 | Reaction to the Beatles in 1964, e.g. |
| 56% | THEROYALWHEE | 12 | Queen's reaction to the London Eye |
| 55% | YECCH | 5 | Reaction to the starts of the five longest puzzle answers |
| 54% | MANIA | 5 | Reaction to the Beatles in 1964 or Justin Bieber in 2010 |
| 54% | OOF | 3 | Reaction to being punched in the stomach |
| 54% | OOF | 3 | Reaction to a sock in the gut |
| 54% | OOF | 3 | Reaction to getting punched in the stomach |
| 54% | OOF | 3 | Reaction to a punch in the gut |
| 54% | AWE | 3 | Reaction to seeing the Northern Lights, perhaps |
| 54% | OOF | 3 | Reaction to a punch, in the comics |
| 52% | ONLYINAMERICA | 13 | His reaction to the election of a Jewish mayor in Dublin |
| 52% | OOF | 3 | Reaction to getting the wind knocked out of you |
| 51% | GULP | 4 | Reaction to being sent to the principal's office, say |
| 51% | IMOLD | 5 | Reaction to hearing what the kids are doing these days |
| 51% | OOF | 3 | Comic reaction to a punch in the gut |
| 50% | EGADNOBONDAGE | 13 | Disappointed reaction to the censored version of "Fifty Shades of Grey," either way? |
| 50% | MMM | 3 | Reaction to yummy food, (it's the same letter written thrice) |
| 49% | TARDY | 5 | Failing to beat the bell |
| 49% | CAKEPANIC | 9 | Dessert chef's reaction to a fire in the oven? |
| 49% | BATHERSIGNAL | 12 | Bell prompting someone to get into the tub? |
| 46% | CLAPPERS | 8 | Going like the __, idiom that refers to bells |