| 100% | EXCELLING | 9 | Doing better than most others in a field of study |
| 41% | SIN | 3 | Planting more than one kind of seed in a field, per Deuteronomy |
| 40% | OILIEST | 7 | Most in need of a good shampoo, perhaps |
| 40% | ACUTABOVE | 9 | Better than most others |
| 40% | ARUM | 4 | Species of the plant alternately known as snakeshead, cuckoo pint, lords-and-ladies, jack in the pulpit and more than a dozen other names |
| 37% | AJSOPRANO | 9 | Son of a famous TV family, in more ways than one |
| 37% | OUTSELL | 7 | Do better than, in stores |
| 37% | ACED | 4 | Did better than a B |
| 37% | IDEA | 4 | One of many in a good brainstorming session |
| 36% | TAP | 3 | Action that can be done to a phone, in more ways than one |
| 36% | STRESS | 6 | Result of having too much to do in too short a time, probably |
| 36% | RARE | 4 | Opposite of well done, in a steakhouse |
| 36% | MAJOR | 5 | Primary field of study in college |
| 36% | OBEYS | 5 | What a participant in Yale's Milgram experiment of 1961 does, most of the time |
| 35% | SYLLABUS | 8 | Subjects in a course of study |
| 35% | TORN | 4 | In a state of much confusion? |
| 34% | CRAM | 4 | Do a semester's worth of studying in one night, say |
| 34% | SMOKEY | 6 | Singer Robinson who released “Gasms,” his first album of new material in more than a decade, in April, 2023 |
| 34% | OUTSOLD | 7 | Performed better than, in a way |
| 34% | UPSTAGE | 7 | Act better than, in a way |
| 34% | FADING | 6 | Not doing well in a race |
| 34% | HARM | 4 | Doing more ___ than good |
| 34% | HARM | 4 | Do more ___ than good |
| 33% | ISLEROYALE | 10 | Lake Superior locale that's the subject of a more than 60 year study of a unique moose-wolf relationship |
| 33% | LAP | 3 | What a runner will do to another when they're more than 400 m ahead in the 5,000 m |
| 33% | RASPIEST | 8 | Most rough, in a manner of speaking? |
| 33% | ARTS | 4 | Liberal ___ (a field of study) |
| 33% | REEL | 4 | Highlight ___, compilation of best plays from the season or game which is a popular break-time sight in most stadium sports |
| 33% | BADBUNCH | 8 | Best of a __, a thing slightly better than others |
| 33% | DARKHORSE | 9 | Outsider in a race that does surprisingly well |