| 100% | SHAM | 4 | Not what it seems to be |
| 79% | ILLUSORY | 8 | Not what it appears to be |
| 67% | SORTS | 5 | What it's not good to be out of |
| 62% | AMORE | 5 | What it is when "the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine" |
| 59% | GENUINE | 7 | Completely what it claims to be |
| 58% | HOAX | 4 | It's not what it seems |
| 55% | ONESELF | 7 | What it's usually best to be |
| 55% | PLACEPLACEAT | 12 | What it's impossible to be in |
| 55% | JAZZ | 4 | Genre that "remains distinguishable not by what is played but by how it is played," according to Encyclopedia Britannica |
| 54% | ONEWORD | 7 | What the answer to this clue is not (it's two!) |
| 54% | BOO | 3 | What it would be a mistake to write twice? |
| 54% | QUACKSLIKEADUCK | 15 | Appears to be just what it is |
| 53% | TIME | 4 | It may seem to be crawling or flying |
| 52% | PAR | 3 | It may not be easy to shoot |
| 52% | INFINITIVE | 10 | It's not to wrongly be split |
| 52% | HARM | 4 | What doctors are sworn not to do |
| 52% | ANTIJOKE | 8 | Its punchline is designed not to land |
| 52% | SIN | 3 | What it is to kill a mockingbird, in "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| 51% | OVERRATED | 9 | Not all it's cracked up to be |
| 51% | MONEY | 5 | What is said not to grow on trees |
| 51% | SNUFF | 5 | Underachievers are not up to it |
| 51% | NOSTALGIA | 9 | It "isn't what it used to be," said Simone Signoret |
| 51% | FACT | 4 | Something known to be true, whether you believe it or not |
| 51% | PLAYMONEY | 9 | It's not worth what it seems |
| 51% | DIAL | 4 | People are told not to touch it |
| 50% | NOONE | 5 | "___ knows what it's like, to be a bad man": 2 wds |
| 50% | SOAPSTONE | 9 | It is not possible to do the washing with it |
| 50% | SHOOT | 5 | What one is not supposed to do to the messenger |
| 50% | REAL | 4 | What Santa Claus is to kids, but not to adults |
| 50% | NAKEDEYE | 8 | It may not be able to pick up something tiny |