| 100% | INERT | 5 | Like Xenon, which is unlikely to have a bonding experience |
| 48% | VEGAN | 5 | Someone you'd be unlikely to have a beef with? |
| 44% | LAB | 3 | Locale which is stereotyped to have a lot of test tubes, for short |
| 43% | SOUTHERNACCENT | 14 | What a Yankee is unlikely to have |
| 41% | RIPE | 4 | Like a fruit that's good to be had |
| 39% | SMUCKERS | 8 | "With a name like ___ it has to be good" jelly brand |
| 39% | SPOT | 4 | Dog unlikely to have a solid coat |
| 39% | PORNO | 5 | Film unlikely to have a costume designer? |
| 39% | PORNO | 5 | Film unlikely to have a costume designer |
| 38% | POSTTRUTH | 9 | Like a world in which objective facts are less important than appeals to emotion and personal belief |
| 38% | NOBAIL | 6 | Like a policy in which arrested suspects can be released from jail without needing to post payment |
| 37% | LETIN | 5 | Letters which one will have to unjumble to mean information a spy collects or "intel" |
| 36% | RES | 3 | ___ judicata (case in which there has been a final judgment and is no longer subject to appeal) |
| 36% | TAME | 4 | Unlikely to bite, like a pet dog |
| 36% | TAME | 4 | Unlikely to attack, like a house dog |
| 36% | SICKLY | 6 | Has a tendency to be unwell frequently |
| 35% | LINING | 6 | Clouds are said to have a silver one |
| 35% | OWE | 3 | Have a sum of money to be repaid |
| 35% | MEANY | 5 | Sort unlikely to be a philanthropist |
| 35% | SOH | 3 | Beginning of the phrase ending in "CAH-TOA" which has been a blessing to many trig. students over the years |
| 35% | TAG | 3 | It has a price to be paid |
| 34% | DIRGE | 5 | Music unlikely to be played at a party |
| 34% | AKA | 3 | Org. which was to have had its 43 annual convention in Ocean City in October (it probably had a lot of "long-winded" speakers, anyway) (abbr.) |
| 34% | KICKME | 6 | Sign unlikely to have been written by the person it is attached to |
| 34% | POSTRACIAL | 10 | Like a society in which people are said to be colorblind |
| 34% | ASP | 3 | Egyptian viper which is said to have killed Cleopatra |
| 34% | OMOO | 4 | Melville's novel which is a sequel to "Typee" |
| 34% | LINING | 6 | Every cloud is supposed to have a silver one |
| 34% | SHY | 3 | Like someone unlikely to initiate a conversation |
| 34% | CANAPE | 6 | Is primate able to have a bite? |