| 100% | RAG | 3 | Not the most prestigious publication |
| 57% | NOISIEST | 8 | Not the most quiet! |
| 56% | CORN | 4 | Not the most sophisticated humor |
| 56% | MCJOB | 5 | Not the most rewarding work |
| 56% | MCJOB | 5 | Not the most stimulating work |
| 56% | REDNECK | 7 | Not the most refined fellow |
| 56% | TUB | 3 | Not the most maneuverable ship |
| 55% | JVDRIPS | 7 | Not the most exciting school athletes? |
| 55% | RAG | 3 | Not the most authoritative journalism source |
| 54% | BEDOFNAILS | 10 | Not the most comfortable place to sleep |
| 54% | CRATE | 5 | Not the most reliable set of wheels |
| 54% | RAG | 3 | Hardly the most prestigious paper |
| 52% | ARCS | 4 | Not the most direct routes from point to point |
| 48% | PHI | 3 | ___ Beta Kappa, the most prestigious academic honor society in the United States |
| 48% | MILD | 4 | Not burning the mouth much |
| 46% | CLAMMINGUP | 10 | Not giving the police any more information |
| 46% | ANTONYM | 7 | Many not worried it means the reverse |
| 46% | TAIWAN | 6 | Most populous nation not in the U.N. |
| 45% | ANTONYM | 7 | Many not worried — it means quite the reverse |
| 44% | WEAK | 4 | Not able to lift much weight at the gym |
| 44% | WOOL | 4 | Something not much worn in the summer |
| 43% | SAMEOLD | 7 | When repeated, not much in the way of news |
| 43% | BERG | 4 | On the surface it might not look like much |
| 42% | DORK | 4 | Not exactly the most likely member of the in-crowd |
| 39% | ERECT | 5 | What most moai were not, by the time the 20th century rolled around |
| 39% | TOP | 3 | Most prestigious |
| 39% | BYRON | 5 | "I love not man the less, but nature more", by Lord George Gordon ____ |
| 39% | FEMINIST | 8 | Like "The Handmaid's Tale," to many critics (but not to the author) |
| 38% | FAVORITE | 8 | The most preferred |
| 38% | SLEEPIEST | 9 | The most tired |