| 100% | SONANT | 6 | Like "n" and "r," in phonetics |
| 62% | PLOSIVE | 7 | Like "t," "k" and "p," in phonetics |
| 60% | TRADE | 5 | Exchange (as A and R in this puzzle) |
| 58% | USN | 3 | R.M.N. and J.F.K. were once in it |
| 57% | RARE | 4 | Like N.F.L. games ending in a tie |
| 57% | VELAR | 5 | Like some consonants, in phonetics |
| 57% | ELOPING | 7 | Like Romeo and Juliet in Act 2 |
| 57% | LOST | 4 | Like Hansel and Gretel in the forest |
| 57% | UNDERPAR | 8 | Like birdies and eagles, in golf |
| 56% | ELOPING | 7 | Like Romeo and Juliet, in Act II |
| 56% | ATWAR | 5 | Like Iraq and Iran, in the 1980s |
| 56% | TREF | 4 | Like bacon and lobster, in Jewish law |
| 56% | BUNDLED | 7 | Like phone and Internet, in some plans |
| 56% | ROLLED | 6 | Like some R's and oats |
| 56% | NSFW | 4 | Like R-rated pics, in brief |
| 56% | MAYAN | 5 | Like ruins in Tulum and Coba |
| 56% | UVULAR | 6 | Like spoken R's in French |
| 56% | ROLLED | 6 | Like some r's in Spanish |
| 55% | JCCHASEZ | 8 | "It's Gonna Be Me" singer in N Sync whose name's first and last letters sound like "Jay-Z": 2 wds. |
| 55% | RESET | 5 | Like most clocks in April and October |
| 55% | BATTERFRIED | 11 | Like the fish in fish and chips |
| 55% | NAVAL | 5 | Like the battles in "Master and Commander" |
| 55% | UPTOWN | 6 | Like Manhattan in the 80s and 90s? |
| 54% | NASALS | 6 | M and N, in pronunciation |
| 54% | RED | 3 | Like hearts and diamonds, in a deck of cards |
| 54% | SIAMESE | 7 | Like the cats in "Lady and the Tramp" |
| 54% | RED | 3 | Like Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois Avenues, in Monopoly |
| 54% | LAID | 4 | Like eggs in nests and carpet on floors |
| 54% | CAN | 3 | Like seven teams in the N.H.L. |
| 53% | ARENAS | 6 | Ball in Denver and the like |