| 100% | LONEPAIR | 8 | In an atom's outer shell, two electrons not bonded to another atom |
| 32% | MATTE | 5 | Mask used to blank out part of an image in a film so that another can be superimposed |
| 31% | LIEN | 4 | Right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged |
| 30% | LATETAG | 7 | Infield play that’s not quite in time to get the runner out |
| 30% | OPT | 3 | ___ out (choose not to join in) |
| 30% | OPT | 3 | ___ out (decide not to join in) |
| 30% | BALLGAME | 8 | *Something to "take me out to," in an old song |
| 30% | OPT | 3 | ___ out of (choose not to participate in) |
| 30% | OPT | 3 | ___ out of (decide not to participate in) |
| 29% | OPTS | 4 | ___ out of (chooses not to take part in) |
| 29% | ESC | 3 | Key used to get out, not in |
| 29% | ESC | 3 | Key used to get out, but not in |
| 29% | ORBITAL | 7 | Electron's area around an atom |
| 28% | ADAPTATIONS | 11 | A wood frog's ability to freeze itself in winter and an octopus's ability to change color, for two |
| 28% | SHED | 4 | The ___, arts center in New York City that has an outer shell on wheels |
| 28% | HIDDENAWAY | 10 | Not stored in an easy-to-find place |
| 28% | NUTMEAT | 7 | What's in an almond shell |
| 27% | EMU | 3 | Sch. in Ypsilanti whose mascot is an eagle, not another large bird |
| 27% | AVA | 3 | Name that fills in the blanks to make another name: S_ _ _NNAH |
| 27% | VEEP | 4 | Show whose title character likened her job to being “sealed in an abandoned coal mine under two miles of human shit” |
| 27% | COMA | 4 | State it's not good to be in |
| 27% | IMAC | 4 | Something in an office that's not PC? |
| 27% | ION | 3 | Atom that's lost an electron |
| 26% | SORTS | 5 | What it's not good to be out of |
| 26% | FLAMES | 6 | It's not good to go up in them |
| 26% | ACAT | 4 | "You should not call in ___ to settle the argument of two birds" (Indian proverb) |
| 26% | CORALINE | 8 | Found a passage to another world in Gaiman's book |
| 26% | FOOT | 4 | It's not good to have in one's mouth |
| 26% | GAVASKAR | 8 | S M —, India Test cricketer who hit 236 not out against West Indies at Chennai in 1983 |
| 26% | PROTON | 6 | Positively charged particle in an atom |