100% | REGIMELESS | 10 | Lacking an institutionalized power structure, as a city or state |
35% | ZIP | 3 | Code often following city or a state |
34% | SLEEPMODE | 9 | Power-saving or standby state on a computer |
34% | WRITER | 6 | A scribe, such as an author or journalist |
34% | HIJACK | 6 | Take over, as a conversation … or an airplane |
34% | SENDS | 5 | Transmits, as a text or an email |
34% | SPARK | 5 | Ignite, as a fire or an idea |
34% | WHET | 4 | Sharpen, as a blade or an appetite |
33% | KINGDOM | 7 | State or government with a royal as its head |
33% | LIMB | 4 | A body part, such as an arm or leg |
33% | PARRY | 5 | Deflect, as an insult or a sword |
33% | DOT | 3 | Finish, as an "i" or a "j" |
33% | WEN | 3 | An old word for a very big or overcrowded city |
33% | AREA | 4 | A real estate measure, such as an acre or hectare |
33% | ENTHRONE | 8 | Put in power, as a king or queen |
33% | ARACHNID | 8 | An invertebrate such as a spider or scorpion |
32% | HIRE | 4 | Put in a position, as an editor or manager |
32% | SPRAINED | 8 | Wrenched a joint such as an ankle or wrist |
32% | WELLAIMED | 9 | On the mark, as an insult or a dart |
32% | MOVIETROPE | 10 | Common film device, such as a training montage or an enemies-to-lovers arc |
32% | RAID | 4 | Surprise action by an agency in power or a government |
32% | GEORGIANS | 9 | Those from a US state or an East European country |
32% | KICKSTART | 9 | Get going, as an old motorcycle or a new company |
32% | ECONOMY | 7 | Low-cost, as an airplane seat or a rental car |
32% | REFER | 5 | Look (to), as a dictionary or an encyclopedia |
31% | THOTH | 5 | Egyptian deity depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon |
31% | OREM | 4 | Beehive State city that's an anagram of a world capital |
31% | TRI | 3 | City or state lead-in |
31% | ATBAT | 5 | A walk or a hit by pitch does not count as an official one |
31% | HOLDONTOYOURHAT | 15 | "This may come as a shock," or an apt title for this puzzle |