| 100% | TWO | 3 | Number in a pair or a duet |
| 63% | TWO | 3 | Number in a pair |
| 59% | TWO | 3 | Number in a duet |
| 58% | TWO | 3 | Number of things in a pair |
| 58% | TWO | 3 | Number of items in a pair |
| 58% | TWO | 3 | Pair count or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 45d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 56% | TEN | 3 | Number of fingers in a pair of gloves |
| 56% | TEN | 3 | Number of compartments in a pair of gloves |
| 56% | SPREAD | 6 | Pair of facing pages in a newspaper or book |
| 55% | TWO | 3 | Number of singers in a duet |
| 55% | TWO | 3 | Number of people in a duet |
| 53% | SCORES | 6 | Numbers or points in a game made by teams |
| 52% | STAT | 4 | A number in sports, or a word used by doctors that means "right now!" |
| 52% | THREE | 5 | Number of points for a B or C in Scrabble |
| 51% | AREA | 4 | ___ code (three digits that begin a phone number in the US or Canada) |
| 51% | ALTER | 5 | Take in or rehem, as a pair of pants |
| 50% | ACE | 3 | Good card to pair with a queen or king in blackjack |
| 49% | TWOSOME | 7 | A pair or a couple |
| 49% | ELDAD | 5 | One of a pair of prophets mentioned in the Book of Numbers |
| 48% | OPERATION | 9 | Process in which a number is altered or changed |
| 48% | COUNTDOWN | 9 | Crucial last moments in a game, or a popular New Year's tradition that involves shouting numbers backwards |
| 48% | INTHECROSSHAIRS | 15 | Fixed as a target ... or a hint to four pairs of intersecting answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of cards in a full house or three of a kind |
| 47% | SIX | 3 | Half of a dozen or the next number in a New Year's countdown |
| 47% | RAMPUP | 6 | Increase rapidly ... or a hint to connecting four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | MINDOVERMATTER | 14 | Slogan about willpower ... or a hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | SYMBIOTIC | 9 | Mutually beneficial … or a hint to three pairs of crossing answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | OPPOSITESATTRACT | 16 | Dating axiom … or a hint to interpreting four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | CAFETERIA | 9 | A lunchroom in a workplace or a school |
| 47% | PIECESOFEIGHT | 13 | Pirate plunder ... or a hint to interpreting an appropriate number of squares in this puzzle |