| 100% | STARFISH | 8 | Creature that can shed its arms in defense |
| 47% | XXXXXX | 6 | Creature whose creation can mean death for those trapped in it |
| 47% | SKINK | 5 | Lizard that can shed its tail |
| 45% | GECKO | 5 | Creature that can lick its own eyes |
| 44% | ANT | 3 | Creature that can carry many times its body weight |
| 43% | OWLS | 4 | Creatures that can have asymmetrical ears, which aid in hunting |
| 42% | FLEA | 4 | Creature that can leap more than 150 times its own body length (!) |
| 41% | LOON | 4 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 41% | WREN | 4 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 41% | OWL | 3 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 41% | JAY | 3 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 41% | HAWK | 4 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 41% | CROW | 4 | "Imaginary" creature that could appear in one of the starred answers |
| 39% | EMU | 3 | Creature that can fill the blank in L___R to make another creature |
| 38% | ALLIGATOR | 9 | Animal that can grow up to 3,000 teeth in its lifetime |
| 38% | RNS | 3 | Health workers that could give you a shot in the arm, for short |
| 37% | SHARK | 5 | Animal that can go through over 20,000 (very sharp) teeth in its lifetime |
| 37% | SELFIE | 6 | Picture that often has an arm in it |
| 36% | GERALDFORD | 10 | "I guess it just proves that in America anyone can be president" |
| 36% | SNAKE | 5 | Creature that grows longer in a classic video game (also in this puzzle, when it "eats" a black square) |
| 35% | NENE | 4 | Creature that can walk on lava |
| 35% | NEWT | 4 | Creature that can be "red-spotted" |
| 35% | STY | 3 | Teen's bedroom that's so messy, a pig could live in it |
| 35% | GECKOES | 7 | Creatures that can lick their own eyes |
| 35% | SUP | 3 | Publishing arm of the California school that admitted its first students in 1891 (abbr.) |
| 35% | WHALES | 6 | Underwater creatures that can echolocate |
| 34% | DUSTMITE | 8 | Tiny creature that can trigger allergies |
| 34% | EELS | 4 | Snaky sea creatures that can be electric |
| 34% | EELS | 4 | Long sea creatures that can swim backward |
| 33% | TADPOLE | 7 | Creature that loses its tail |