| 100% | APTERAL | 7 | Lacking a surrounding colonnade, as a temple |
| 49% | DIRECT | 6 | Lacking a stopover, as a flight |
| 48% | MATTE | 5 | Lacking a shine, as paint |
| 48% | AMID | 4 | Surrounded by, as a crowd |
| 47% | BLUNT | 5 | Lacking a sharp point, as a fencing sword |
| 47% | DIM | 3 | Lacking in illumination, as a room |
| 47% | FLANKED | 7 | Surrounded, as a land with coasts |
| 47% | APTERAL | 7 | Not having a surrounding colonnade, in architecture |
| 47% | SHORN | 5 | Lacking its wool coat, as a sheep |
| 46% | VEINLESS | 8 | Lacking ore, as a mountain |
| 46% | THREADY | 7 | Lacking fullness, as a voice |
| 46% | SKETCHY | 7 | Lacking completeness, as a report |
| 46% | DEAD | 4 | Lacking liveliness, as a nightclub |
| 46% | STALE | 5 | Lacking freshness, as a baguette |
| 46% | LIMP | 4 | Lacking firmness, as a handshake |
| 46% | VAGUE | 5 | Lacking details, as a recollection |
| 45% | ENHALO | 6 | Surround, as with a glow |
| 44% | ENHALO | 6 | Surround, as with a saintly glow |
| 43% | ANOMIE | 6 | Lack of values, as in a people |
| 43% | REGIMELESS | 10 | Lacking an institutionalized power structure, as a city or state |
| 41% | ALCOHOL | 7 | What a Shirley Temple lacks |
| 39% | COULIS | 6 | Thin puree of vegetables or fruit served as a sauce surrounding a dish |
| 38% | ISLE | 4 | A piece of land surrounded by water, such as the ___ of Capri |
| 35% | HIDEAWAY | 8 | A place used as a retreat |
| 35% | RESULT | 6 | As a ___ |
| 34% | DOVE | 4 | A bird used as a peace symbol |
| 34% | ATONAL | 6 | Lacking a key |
| 34% | ACENTRIC | 8 | Lacking a middle |
| 34% | PALE | 4 | Lacking a tan |
| 34% | ORPHANED | 8 | Lacking a sponsor |