| 100% | GENIE | 5 | One who needs to be rubbed out? |
| 59% | ALLY | 4 | One who's supposed to be available if needed |
| 57% | GAMER | 5 | One who might need to be consoled? |
| 56% | EXILE | 5 | One who needs to go |
| 55% | SLOB | 4 | One who needs to come clean? |
| 54% | GENIE | 5 | Something to be rubbed out? |
| 52% | SOS | 3 | Letters from someone who needs to be rescued |
| 52% | GASSY | 5 | Like a baby who needs to be burped |
| 52% | ASPIRER | 7 | One who wants to be ambitious |
| 52% | DAMSEL | 6 | Female fairy-tale figure who needs to be rescued |
| 51% | MUTTERER | 8 | One who can hardly be made out |
| 51% | PRIMETARGET | 11 | One most likely to be singled out |
| 51% | CLAP | 4 | One way to put your lights out, for those of us who are into weird gizmos |
| 51% | MIDDLEMAN | 9 | One who may be cut out, and what must be cut out of five answers to make sense of their clues |
| 51% | EXMEMBER | 8 | One who used to be in the club |
| 51% | INAJAM | 6 | Needing to be bailed out, maybe (3 wds.) |
| 51% | METER | 5 | One may need to be fed after parking |
| 50% | FORM | 4 | Application that needs to be filled out |
| 50% | BEE | 3 | Where everything needs to be spelled out |
| 50% | FIT | 3 | Didn't need to be let out |
| 50% | KISSER | 6 | One who is making out |
| 49% | ACTOR | 5 | One who pretends to be a different person on screen |
| 49% | EVICTEE | 7 | One who is out at home? |
| 49% | ALCOHOLIC | 9 | One who is addicted to beer |
| 49% | CRYBABIES | 9 | Ones who are quick to complain |
| 49% | HEIR | 4 | One who is to be the successor |
| 49% | GENIE | 5 | One might be rubbed out |
| 49% | ELEPHANTTRAINER | 15 | One who orders trunks to be moved? |
| 49% | EPEEIST | 7 | One who tries to avoid being touched |
| 49% | BADAPPLE | 8 | One who is rotten to the core? |