| 100% | SALARIED | 8 | Like full-time employees who are not paid hourly |
| 39% | SEMIPRO | 7 | Like an athlete who's not quite amateur, not quite full-time |
| 38% | ONSALARY | 8 | Not paid hourly |
| 37% | ONRETAINER | 10 | Like a lawyer who's been paid to be available to a client |
| 36% | IRONY | 5 | "At a time like this, scorching ___, not convincing argument, is needed": Frederick Douglass |
| 35% | FILL | 4 | President who was not elected |
| 35% | POOR | 4 | Someone who is not rich |
| 35% | DREAMER | 7 | One who is not practical |
| 35% | SALARIAT | 8 | Class of workers not paid hourly |
| 35% | YEMENIS | 7 | Arabs who are not in OPEC |
| 35% | MEREMORTALS | 11 | Marseille mothers who are not goddesses? |
| 35% | PHONEYS | 7 | Describes people who are not genuine |
| 35% | AMATEUR | 7 | Someone who is not a professional |
| 35% | TEEN | 4 | One who is not yet twenty |
| 35% | SIS | 3 | Sibling who is not your bro |
| 35% | TEEN | 4 | Someone who is not yet 20 |
| 34% | JRS | 3 | Students who are not seniors, for short |
| 34% | YOU | 3 | A person who is not a doofus |
| 34% | LIAR | 4 | One who is not speaking the truth |
| 34% | ANTIHERO | 8 | Lead character who is not especially brave |
| 34% | DEAF | 4 | One who is not able to hear |
| 34% | DOER | 4 | Someone who is not just a thinker |
| 34% | SORELOSER | 9 | Player who is not graceful in defeat |
| 34% | DPLUSSTUDENT | 12 | One who is not on a roll? |
| 34% | AROS | 4 | People who are not prone to infatuations, informally |
| 34% | VENUSDEMILO | 11 | A classic beauty who is not all there |
| 34% | MINOR | 5 | Person who is not yet a legal adult |
| 34% | IMP | 3 | Little one who is not exactly an angel |
| 34% | DRDRE | 5 | Rapper-producer who is not actually a physician |
| 34% | ENRICO | 6 | Theoretical physicist Fermi who was not, himself, theoretical |