| 100% | SLOTH | 5 | One of three living mammals in the superorder Xenarthra, along with the armadillo and anteater |
| 44% | SLOTH | 5 | Along with the anteater, one of two animals in the order Pilosa |
| 44% | AOL | 3 | One of the former Big Three information services, along with CompuServe and Prodigy |
| 43% | ATHOS | 5 | One of the Three Musketeers, along with Porthos and Aramis |
| 43% | PAPA | 4 | One of the Three Bears, along with Mama and Baby |
| 43% | FATS | 4 | One of the three main macronutrients, along with carbohydrates and proteins |
| 43% | ABC | 3 | One of the Big Three networks, along with NBC and CBS |
| 40% | DANTE | 5 | One of the so-called "Three Crowns of Florence," along with Petrarch and Boccaccio |
| 38% | SERA | 4 | One (along with Ganden and Drepung) of the "great three" monasteries of Tibet |
| 38% | DHARMA | 6 | Component, along with the Buddha and the sangha, of Buddhism’s Three Jewels |
| 38% | MUSIAL | 6 | One of three men to play in 24 All-Star Games, with Aaron and Mays |
| 37% | GASPAR | 6 | One of the Magi, along with Melchior and Balthazar |
| 37% | AIR | 3 | One of the four classical elements, along with fire, earth, and water |
| 37% | NINA | 4 | One of Columbus's ships, along with the Pinta and the Santa Maria |
| 37% | LUCIANO | 7 | One of opera's Three Tenors, along with José and Plácido |
| 37% | RICE | 4 | Along with lentils, one of the two main ingredients in idli |
| 37% | REDSOX | 6 | One of two MLB teams with three World Series titles in the 21st century (2 wds.) |
| 36% | TED | 3 | Danson who played one of the three men in "Three Men and a Baby" |
| 36% | MOUSELEMUR | 10 | A species unique to Madagascar that is the world's smallest primate and one of the smallest mammals in the world: 2 wds. |
| 36% | AER | 3 | One of the four classical elements, along with ignis, aqua and terra |
| 36% | LAOS | 4 | One of the three landlocked countries with four-letter names, aside from Chad and Mali |
| 36% | SOAPS | 5 | Galen of Pergamon described these in the 2nd century and stated the best were Germanic with Gaulish ones second best |
| 35% | GNOME | 5 | One of a species of legendary creatures said to live in the depths of the earth and guard buried treasure |
| 35% | MAGUS | 5 | Any one of three wise men in the Bible |
| 35% | WARREN | 6 | With 35-Across, actor who played Clyde, one of the title characters on the run in 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" |
| 35% | MONTH | 5 | One of the twelve divisions in a year, and a word that has an obscure perfect rhyme with the word "oneth" |
| 35% | ELK | 3 | One of the largest mammals in North America |
| 35% | PIERCEARROW | 11 | Third member of the Three “P”s of luxury automobiles, along with Packard and Peerless |
| 35% | ALPHABETIZATION | 15 | One way of ordering things, like all the consonants in rows three, six and nine |
| 34% | MEAL | 4 | One of the "hots" in the military slang "three hots and a cot" |