| 100% | ADAMANT | 7 | English New Wave artist named like an insect |
| 40% | APT | 3 | Like the name "Art," for an artist |
| 35% | NAT | 3 | Boy's nickname that sounds like an insect |
| 35% | CREPT | 5 | Moved slowly, like an insect |
| 34% | BETEL | 5 | Intoxicating Asian plant whose name sounds like an insect |
| 34% | BETEL | 5 | Areca nut that sounds like an insect |
| 33% | SHAGGY | 6 | Like an Old English sheepdog |
| 33% | TAUT | 4 | Like an artist's canvas |
| 33% | FITTOBETIED | 11 | Like an angry macramé artist? |
| 33% | SLOW | 4 | Like an uneventful news day |
| 33% | EXO | 3 | Prefix for outer, like an insect's skeleton |
| 33% | SEAHOLLY | 8 | Perennial with name like an ocean Christmas plant |
| 33% | RELET | 5 | Like an apartment with new tenants |
| 33% | DRAW | 4 | Sketch, like an artist |
| 32% | OBOE | 4 | Woodwind like an English horn |
| 32% | TIEUP | 5 | Bind, like an escape artist |
| 32% | SIA | 3 | Musical artist whose name sounds like an exclamation of departure |
| 32% | BEEHIVE | 7 | Lady's hairdo that looks like an insect's home |
| 32% | FIVEGUINEA | 10 | Like an old English coin worth 21 shillings |
| 32% | WASP | 4 | Marvel superhero with an insect name |
| 32% | DEPECHEMODE | 11 | English New Wave band with the 1984 hit "People Are People": 2 wds. |
| 31% | BUTTERFLYSHRIMP | 15 | Frozen shellfish shaped like an airborne insect |
| 31% | LOCUST | 6 | Tree named for an insect |
| 31% | QUAINT | 6 | Like many an English inn |
| 31% | ARE | 3 | Common verb that sounds like an English letter |
| 31% | ELLE | 4 | French magazine that sounds like an English letter |
| 31% | OUI | 3 | French word that sounds like an English pronoun |
| 30% | UNREAD | 6 | Like new messages in an inbox |
| 30% | FULTON | 6 | New York county named for an inventor |
| 30% | EDISON | 6 | New Jersey township named for an inventor |