| 100% | TEES | 4 | Letters in the word "letter" |
| 83% | SIX | 3 | Number of letters in the word "twelve" |
| 83% | TEN | 3 | Number of letters in the word "dictionary" |
| 83% | TEN | 3 | Number of letters in the word "smartphone" |
| 83% | THREE | 5 | Number of letters in the word "six" |
| 80% | SPELLING | 8 | The agreed sequence of letters in a word |
| 80% | SPELL | 5 | Recite the letters in a word |
| 79% | SIN | 3 | Letters missing in the word "TRAN_GRESS_O_," aptly |
| 79% | HESTER | 6 | Pearl's mother, in The Scarlet Letter |
| 76% | BEER | 4 | Beverage whose letters appear in order in the word "beverage" |
| 76% | NMI | 3 | Letters used in the absence of a letter |
| 75% | NEWS | 4 | First letters of the words hidden in the four longest answers |
| 75% | XHEIGHT | 7 | In typography, the space filled by the 24th letter |
| 74% | ECHO | 4 | Word representing the letter E in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| 74% | OSCAR | 5 | Word representing the letter O in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| 74% | FOXTROT | 7 | Word representing the letter F in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| 74% | CHARLIE | 7 | Word representing the letter C in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| 74% | ROMEO | 5 | Word for the letter R in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| 74% | BRAVO | 5 | Word representing the letter B in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| 74% | SIERRA | 6 | Word representing the letter S in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| 74% | KILO | 4 | Word that represents the letter K in the radio alphabet |
| 73% | TWO | 3 | Number of letters in every word of the answers to the starred clues |
| 73% | TANGO | 5 | Word that represents the letter T in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| 73% | AMORE | 5 | Word that can aptly be spelled with the letters in romance |
| 72% | ENCLOSED | 8 | Placed in an envelope along with the cover letter |
| 72% | CENT | 4 | Word that appears in capital letters on the back of a penny |
| 71% | ACROSTIC | 8 | Poem where the 1st letters in each line form words |
| 70% | PAPA | 4 | Code word for the letter P in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| 70% | YANKEE | 6 | Code word for the letter Y in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| 70% | AYE | 3 | Word that sounds like a letter of the alphabet that's not in it |