| 100% | LGA | 3 | Letters the doc may describe your new born as being if they're born heavier than 9 pounds 15 ounces |
| 22% | ORY | 3 | Letters that might be on your luggage tag if you're headed for a vacation in Paris, maybe |
| 22% | DOGS | 4 | They may be measured by the pound |
| 22% | STRAYS | 6 | They may be measured by the pound |
| 22% | DOGS | 4 | They might be gathered by the pound |
| 22% | HIPS | 4 | Where your hands are if they're "akimbo" |
| 22% | TASTEBUDS | 9 | They may be at the tip of your tongue |
| 20% | HAND | 4 | "Raise your ___," what students might be instructed to do in school if they have a question |
| 20% | ROSARIODAWSON | 13 | "Jane the Virgin" actress who was born May 9, 1979 (2 wds.) |
| 20% | FRESHAIR | 8 | Something new and different might be described as a breath of it |
| 20% | HEADACHES | 9 | Pains that feel as if they're in the brain |
| 20% | ITOOKARISK | 10 | "To protect my crew, the gamble was necessary," as [circled letters] might say |
| 20% | RENTS | 5 | People may be put out if they're not put up |
| 20% | BRADS | 5 | Fasteners ... or, if you change the fourth letter to an S, what the fasteners might be made of |
| 20% | MOLASSES | 8 | If one is as slow as this syrup, they're very slow |
| 19% | FOUNDPOETRY | 11 | Verse derived from an existing source text . . . or what the circled squares might be described as |
| 19% | PERHAPS | 7 | As the case may be |
| 19% | GUINEAS | 7 | They were once worth a little more than a pound |
| 19% | CROONERSINQUEST | 15 | What might determine if the moon hitting your eye like a big pizza pie is truly amore? |
| 19% | EVENS | 5 | The odds may be against them |
| 19% | TEAM | 4 | The yoke may be on them |
| 19% | DISEASE | 7 | The remedy may be worse than this |
| 19% | STOOLS | 6 | Your legs may not touch the ground when you're on them |
| 19% | PETERARNO | 9 | The New Yorker cartoonist who contributed 99 covers from 1925-69 and was once described as "the magazine's first genius" |
| 19% | ETH | 3 | A letter in the Icelandic alphabet that can be described as a voiced or voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative |
| 19% | HONESTY | 7 | Billy Joel ballad with the lyrics "But if you look for truthfulness / You might just as well be blind" |
| 18% | STAT | 4 | Bit of Latin that the surgeon might yell if they're losing control of the situation |
| 18% | ETAL | 4 | The AMA uses this abbr. with no period and if there are more than six authors, but only lists three of them in any case |
| 18% | DENTS | 5 | They may be pounded out |
| 18% | RAINS | 5 | They may pound the pavement |