| 100% | STERILE | 7 | Like surgical instruments after being autoclaved |
| 41% | ASHY | 4 | Like a hibachi after being used |
| 41% | LOOSER | 6 | Like a screw after being turned counterclockwise |
| 38% | STALE | 5 | Like crackers after the box is left open |
| 38% | ASHY | 4 | Like a barbecue pit after it's been used |
| 37% | SHORN | 5 | Like a sheep, after its wool is cut off |
| 36% | ONEND | 5 | Like hair after being rubbed with a balloon, maybe |
| 36% | MOWN | 4 | Like a lawn after the grass has been cut |
| 35% | THROB | 5 | Hurt like your thumb after being clobbered by a hammer |
| 35% | AREYOUCALLINGMEARIAL | 20 | Query after someone is told they look like Iranian money? |
| 34% | WET | 3 | Like your clothes after you've been caught in the rain |
| 34% | UNDATED | 7 | Like planners that can be sold year after year |
| 34% | LUTE | 4 | Ancient plucked stringed instrument whose body is shaped like a halved pear |
| 34% | HEARTEN | 7 | Feel like there must be an extra instrument in that nonet recording? |
| 34% | LUTE | 4 | Ancient plucked stringed instrument whose body is shaped like a sliced pear |
| 33% | ROPE | 4 | "Sex after 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a ___": George Burns |
| 33% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom surveying instrument the topographic — level is named |
| 33% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie -, scientist after whom surveying instrument the topographic - level is named |
| 33% | LANCET | 6 | Surgical instrument |
| 33% | LASER | 5 | Surgical instrument |
| 33% | TREPAN | 6 | Surgical instrument |
| 33% | STYLET | 6 | Surgical instrument |
| 33% | PROBE | 5 | Surgical instrument |
| 32% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom the surveying instrument a topographic — level is named |
| 32% | STERILE | 7 | Like surgical tools |
| 32% | TRAYS | 5 | Surgical instrument holders |
| 32% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument that sounds like "a duck if the duck were a songbird," according to Angels in America |
| 32% | BEE | 3 | Q: Why is a flower like the letter A? A: Because a ___ goes after it |
| 32% | DILATORS | 8 | Surgical instruments for widening |
| 32% | STERILE | 7 | Like surgical tools, hopefully |