| 100% | MOVEMBER | 8 | Global organization started in Australia where you don't even have to shave to participate |
| 36% | EASYA | 5 | Class where you don't have to study much to do well: 2 wds. |
| 31% | WEED | 4 | Plant growing where you don't want it to, basically |
| 30% | INTERFERE | 9 | Butt in where you don't belong |
| 30% | ELECTIVE | 8 | You don't have to take it |
| 29% | TETRIS | 6 | Game where you don't want to reach the top |
| 29% | NONEED | 6 | "Really, you don't have to" |
| 29% | NONEED | 6 | "Seriously, you don't have to" |
| 29% | OPTIONAL | 8 | Something you don't have to choose |
| 29% | ELECTIVES | 9 | What you don't have to take |
| 29% | NONEED | 6 | "You don't really have to" |
| 29% | PASS | 4 | What you say in bridge if you don't want to bid |
| 29% | ROW | 3 | You don't want to be in the last one |
| 29% | ALIENEGG | 8 | You usually don't want this to hatch in space |
| 29% | ICANTAKEAHINT | 13 | "You don't have to explain what you mean" |
| 29% | FEDEX | 5 | Company started in 1971 by Frederick Smith that today has the corporate motto "Helping you get back to business" |
| 28% | ITSBAD | 6 | "You don't even want to know" |
| 28% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle |
| 28% | LISTEN | 6 | You don't have to face the music to do it |
| 28% | NONEED | 6 | "Thanks, but you don't have to" (2 wds.) |
| 28% | FREEGIFT | 8 | Something you don't have to pay for, redundantly |
| 28% | CAMO | 4 | What you don't want to be spotted in |
| 28% | CAMO | 4 | Garb you don't want to be seen in |
| 28% | CAMO | 4 | Pattern you don't want to be seen in |
| 28% | BROKEN | 6 | If not in this state, you don't need to fix it |
| 28% | COOKIEJAR | 9 | You don't want to be caught with your hand in one |
| 28% | GOHOME | 6 | "You don't have to ___, but you can't stay here" |
| 28% | TIEATIE | 7 | What you don't have to do on casual Friday |
| 28% | THATGUY | 7 | Fellow you don't want to be, in a phrase |
| 28% | ORELSE | 6 | "You don't even want to know the alternative!" |