| 100% | SAMHILL | 7 | Name used in indignant questions |
| 57% | PETE | 4 | Name used in exclamations |
| 50% | ARMOIRE | 7 | French name used in English for an ornate wardrobe |
| 50% | WINFIELD | 8 | Frank Woolworth's middle name used in the business |
| 50% | NOCOMMENT | 9 | Used in refusing to answer a question |
| 49% | ROE | 3 | Notable, but fictitious, name used in a '73 SCOTUS decision |
| 49% | DONTYOUKNOCK | 12 | Indignant question to someone who just barged in |
| 49% | HGTS | 4 | Abbr. used in some town names |
| 48% | ITIS | 4 | Suffix used in medicine to name inflammations |
| 46% | ELM | 3 | Shade tree that is frequently used in street names |
| 46% | OLDE | 4 | Quaint spelling of "not new" used in antique-shop names |
| 46% | OLDE | 4 | Quaint spelling of "not new" used in antique shop names |
| 45% | ASKS | 4 | Uses a question mark in a text message |
| 43% | EGGPLANT | 8 | Purple "vegetable" (name used in US) |
| 43% | NAPPA | 5 | Soft leather used in wallets, whose name derives from a place in California |
| 43% | TILDE | 5 | Character that looks like a wave and is widely used in Spanish names |
| 42% | NOODLE | 6 | Thin, long dough strip often used in ramen, with a name originating from German |
| 42% | OPS | 3 | Suffix used in taxonomy when naming species that means "face", from the ancient Greek |
| 42% | STARZ | 5 | Movie channel that used to have an "!" in its name |
| 42% | NESTLES | 7 | Brand name that used to be spelled out in commercials |
| 41% | INNOCENT | 8 | Papal name last used in 1724 |
| 41% | PIUS | 4 | Papal name last used in 1958 |
| 41% | SIAM | 4 | Country name last used in 1949 |
| 41% | CCH | 3 | ___ Pounder ("NCIS: New Orleans" actress who uses initials in her name) |
| 41% | ONEARMEDMAN | 11 | Name used to refer to Frederick Sykes, the main suspect according to the protagonist in 18a: 2 wds. |
| 40% | KESHA | 5 | "Blow" singer who used to have a dollar sign in her name |
| 40% | SPAM | 4 | Food product whose name is used nowadays mostly in a nonfood way |
| 40% | EGAD | 4 | Shout once used to avoid taking 6-Down's name in vain |
| 40% | SPINALTAP | 9 | Fictional band that uses an umlaut on the "n" in its name |
| 40% | PIUS | 4 | Papal name first used in A.D. 140 |