| 100% | GERM | 4 | Microscopic bug that may make you sick |
| 69% | GERMS | 5 | Tiny organisms that might make you sick |
| 58% | GERM | 4 | "Bug" that could make you sick |
| 53% | GERMS | 5 | They may make you sick |
| 53% | GERM | 4 | It might make you sick |
| 53% | OPART | 5 | Pictures that may make you dizzy |
| 53% | ONION | 5 | Vegetable that may make you cry |
| 53% | OMEN | 4 | Sign that may make you nervous |
| 53% | OMEN | 4 | Sign that may make you shudder |
| 53% | FOODPORN | 8 | Pictures that might make you hungry |
| 52% | SADSONGS | 8 | Music that may make you get down |
| 52% | COMIC | 5 | Newspaper strip that may make you laugh |
| 52% | IBID | 4 | Abbr. that may make you look up |
| 51% | POLLEN | 6 | Stuff that may make you go "Ah-choo!" |
| 51% | DUSTY | 5 | Like an attic that may make you sneeze |
| 49% | GERMS | 5 | Tiny things that could make you sick |
| 49% | ELEVATORMUSIC | 13 | Tunes that might make you want to get out on the floor? |
| 49% | GERM | 4 | Microorganism that can make you sick |
| 47% | POISONPENNE | 11 | Pasta that will make you really sick? |
| 45% | PUNS | 4 | Bits of wordplay that may make you groan... and what 10a, 24a, 27a, 14d, and 23d all are! |
| 45% | REMEDY | 6 | Something that makes you better when sick |
| 45% | NODES | 5 | Lymph ___ (things that may be swollen when you're sick) |
| 44% | GERM | 4 | Tiny creature that makes you sick |
| 42% | GERM | 4 | "Bug" that could make someone sick |
| 42% | NAUSEATING | 10 | Making you sick |
| 42% | ENNUI | 5 | Feeling that might cause you to make a 1-Down/8-Across |
| 41% | THEMOSQUITOASCOT | 16 | Fashion book that will make you look like a million bugs? |
| 41% | PANAMA | 6 | Article of apparel that's not made where you might think |
| 40% | FLEA | 4 | Bug that might bug a beagle |
| 40% | FLEA | 4 | Bug that may bite a dog |