| 100% | DRONEBEE | 8 | Its purpose in life is to mate with a queen |
| 52% | DRONE | 5 | Male bee in a colony whose function is to mate with the queen |
| 48% | HONEYBEE | 8 | Flying insect that lives in a hive with its queen |
| 45% | OLE | 3 | Her s___ purpose in life was to provide for herself and her family |
| 40% | RADIO | 5 | It can be two-way ... with a hint to four squares in this puzzle |
| 39% | ACE | 3 | Fortunate card to have with a queen or king in blackjack |
| 39% | ACE | 3 | Good card to pair with a queen or king in blackjack |
| 39% | LATTE | 5 | It may be topped with art in a café |
| 39% | ACID | 4 | It should be handled with care in a lab |
| 39% | HYMNAL | 6 | It's bound to be used in a service |
| 39% | GPS | 3 | It may be attached to a windshield, in brief |
| 39% | ROM | 3 | It can't be written to, in a PC |
| 39% | CGI | 3 | It brought a T. rex to life in "Jurassic Park" |
| 39% | STENO | 5 | With 26-Down, it may be used in a pool |
| 39% | WET | 3 | It might be hard to get this in a desert |
| 39% | TONE | 4 | It might be tough to convey in a text message |
| 39% | STOPMAKINGSENSE | 15 | No longer be comprehensible ... and, with its first word divided in three parts, a hint to how to read this puzzle's title |
| 38% | BEET | 4 | Its juice is used to mimic blood in a Beyond Burger |
| 38% | ODYSSEUS | 8 | It was his idea to breach Troy in a giant horse |
| 38% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be mightier than a sword, in a proverb |
| 38% | CERES | 5 | It was upgraded from an asteroid to a dwarf planet in 2006 |
| 38% | XXXXXXXXXXXX | 12 | It's estimated to be a foot in the next 25 years |
| 37% | RANCH | 5 | In Buffalo, it's a faux pas to order this with Buffalo wings |
| 37% | BRAKE | 5 | With 4-Down, what may be cut to sabotage a car in movies |
| 37% | WATER | 5 | With 7-Across, it might be the tallest structure in a small town |
| 37% | NEWSHOLE | 8 | Amount of space in a paper to be filled with journalism |
| 37% | LIBRARIAN | 9 | Person urges you to be quiet in a place with books |
| 37% | THEPRINCE | 9 | Machiavelli treatise with a chapter that considers “whether it is better to be loved than feared” |
| 37% | UTILE | 5 | If you're stuck with a Q, it's a godsend to draw this in Scrabble |
| 37% | IBERIA | 6 | Airline with a hub in Madrid that will fly you direct from there to Washington, DC |