| 100% | COFFEETABLEBOOK | 15 | Heavy reading? Completing all the words? "Eek!" |
| 48% | VOCABULARY | 10 | All the words you know |
| 47% | LEXICON | 7 | All the words in a dictionary |
| 47% | VOCABULARY | 10 | All the words that you know |
| 46% | VOCAB | 5 | All the words a person knows, informally |
| 46% | TEXT | 4 | All the words printed on a page |
| 45% | VOCAB | 5 | All the words in a language, for short |
| 45% | VOCAB | 5 | All the words that you may know, for short |
| 42% | NERD | 4 | Theater ___ (someone who knows all the words to "Hamilton," maybe) |
| 41% | GENEPOOL | 8 | All the available heredity factors in a population (2 words) |
| 40% | DOLLAR | 6 | Source of all the tender words in this puzzle? |
| 39% | ELSE | 4 | "When all ___ fails, read the directions" |
| 39% | ELSE | 4 | "When all ___ fails, read the instructions" |
| 39% | ELSE | 4 | "If all ___ fails, read the directions" |
| 39% | ELSE | 4 | "If all ___ fails, read the instructions" |
| 38% | TRUST | 5 | Word on the front of all U.S. coins |
| 38% | ICE | 3 | Word in the center of all three long entries |
| 38% | DAY | 3 | Word that ends all seven parts of the week |
| 38% | LEXIS | 5 | All of the words in a language |
| 38% | OUTOFSORTS | 10 | Irritable ... or how you might describe all the words in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 37% | BOOB | 4 | Word meaning "nincompoop" that reads the same forward and backward |
| 37% | PAT | 3 | Word whose meaning can be the same when read backward |
| 37% | PALINDROME | 10 | Word or phrase that reads the same backward or forward |
| 37% | PEP | 3 | Word meaning "energy" that reads the same forward and backward |
| 37% | DEED | 4 | Word meaning "action" that reads the same forward and backward |
| 37% | SETLIST | 7 | Itemized concert songs in playing order ... and what all the words in answers to starred clues comprise |
| 37% | YOU | 3 | Word that completes the song titles "___ Baby" and "Baby It's ___" |
| 37% | KOOK | 4 | Word meaning "zany person" that reads the same forward and backward |
| 37% | SAGAS | 5 | Word meaning "long stories" that reads the same forward and backward |
| 37% | IBET | 4 | "___ you cannot complete the task" (challenge words): 2 wds. |