| 100% | CAMEL | 5 | Humped desert animal in Ogden Nash's titular poem that pokes fun of its anatomy |
| 28% | CAMEL | 5 | Animal that stores fat in its hump |
| 27% | OTT | 3 | The "O" in Ogden Nash's alphabet of baseball players |
| 27% | CLAM | 4 | Animal that spends most of its life buried in the sand |
| 27% | TYGER | 5 | Striped predator, playfully spelled in William Blake's titular poem that marvels at its creator's work |
| 27% | RHESUS | 6 | Animal that shares its name with a king of Thrace in the "Iliad" |
| 25% | CANNES | 6 | Film festival that awarded its top prize to Anatomy of a Fall in 2023 |
| 25% | CAMEL | 5 | Desert animal that has humps |
| 25% | DEER | 4 | Animal that's said to freeze in front of headlights |
| 24% | LION | 4 | Type of animal that's the mayor in "Zootopia" |
| 24% | CAMEL | 5 | Desert animal with humps that store fat |
| 24% | PANDA | 5 | Animal that's mostly white, helping it hide in its natural habitat |
| 24% | PNEUMATICTIRE | 13 | In a ___, there's a volume of ___ that keeps it firm |
| 24% | RAT | 3 | Kind of animal that Templeton is, in "Charlotte's Web" |
| 24% | APE | 3 | Jungle animal that's close to humans in terms of evolution |
| 24% | CAMEL | 5 | Desert animal that may have one hump or two |
| 23% | CAMEL | 5 | Humped animal of the desert |
| 23% | MOUSE | 5 | Tiny animal that was spared death in one of Aesop's fables |
| 23% | USE | 3 | "It's in the Way That You ___ It" (song in "The Color of Money") |
| 23% | NIGHTINGALE | 11 | Melodious bird in John Keats' titular poem that is a tribute to its song that soars beyond sorrow and time |
| 23% | USE | 3 | "It's in the Way That You ___ It" (Clapton song in "The Color of Money") |
| 23% | AYE | 3 | Word that sounds like a letter of the alphabet that's not in it |
| 23% | EGG | 3 | Food item that will float in a bowl of water if it's old |
| 22% | MARSUPIAL | 9 | Animal that carries its young in a pouch |
| 22% | USE | 3 | "It's in the Way That You ___ It" (Eric Clapton song in "The Color of Money") |
| 22% | BISON | 5 | Horned bovine found in North America that is the official animal of Canada's Manitoba |
| 22% | EGG | 3 | Something that's gone bad if it floats when placed in a bowl of water |
| 22% | AERO | 4 | Something that Rowntree's dreamed up in 1935, and it ended up being full of holes |
| 22% | DIORAMA | 7 | Museum display such as that of an animal in its natural setting |
| 22% | ODE | 3 | Ogden Nash's "Kind of an ___ to Duty" |