| 100% | ONSPEC | 6 | Lacking any guarantee of being paid |
| 43% | HAPHAZARD | 9 | Lacking any obvious principle of organization |
| 41% | EASE | 4 | Lack of any difficulty |
| 40% | PEOPLE | 6 | Any group of human beings |
| 40% | RUDENESS | 8 | Lack of manners or being impolite |
| 40% | NONOONSENSE | 11 | Lack of any desire for lunch? |
| 39% | BROADCAST | 9 | Any type of media being publically transmitted |
| 39% | CAN | 3 | "___ I be of any help?" |
| 38% | PURITANS | 8 | Any form of pleasure is a sin to them |
| 37% | ONBAIL | 6 | Having paid to be out of jail |
| 37% | DEM | 3 | Voting is the foundation of any ___ocracy |
| 37% | CREDIT | 6 | Rating of how likely someone is to pay |
| 37% | GREED | 5 | "___, for lack of a better word, is good" |
| 37% | MAIN | 4 | "The ___ problem is a lack of resources" (primary) |
| 36% | SCURVY | 6 | Disease was typical of seamen: lack of vitamin C |
| 36% | PIGMENT | 7 | Albino traits are a lack of __ in the body |
| 36% | PROTEIN | 7 | Kwashiorkor is caused by a lack of this nutrient |
| 35% | RATITE | 6 | Any of various flightless birds of which the ostrich is the largest |
| 35% | TANLINE | 7 | Lack of shading that indicates where your bathing suit was: 2 wds. |
| 35% | CODE | 4 | Word that can be followed by any of several colors |
| 35% | SILENCE | 7 | This total lack of sound is said to be golden |
| 35% | ONSPECANGLER | 12 | Fisherman with no guarantee of getting paid? (10,6) |
| 35% | COULTER | 7 | Author of "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" |
| 35% | IGNORANCE | 9 | This lack of knowledge or info is said to be bliss |
| 34% | ABET | 4 | Di___es is a disease caused through the lack of insulin |
| 34% | PHANTOMORCHIDS | 14 | Flowers whose stark whiteness is due to complete lack of chlorophyll |
| 34% | TRIMESTER | 9 | Any one of the three terms into which the US academic year is divided |
| 33% | FRITILLARY | 10 | Any of various nymphalid butterflies whose orange-brown wings are chequered with silver and black |
| 33% | TEA | 3 | S___k is one of the most expensive items on any restaurant menu |
| 33% | USSTATES | 8 | E is the only vowel that doesn't begin any of their names |