| 100% | HATER | 5 | One with intense dislike for something, say (rhymes with "crater") |
| 43% | YEARNS | 6 | "He ___ for home" (Pines, or longs for something, rhymes with "burns") |
| 43% | GOTINTOHOTWATER | 15 | Took flak for something one said, say |
| 40% | EVIL | 4 | With 53-Across, one whom you might blame for something bad that you did |
| 38% | REGAL | 5 | Fit for a monarch, say (rhymes with "legal") |
| 37% | DRAT | 4 | Said when something unwanted happens (rhymes with "Brat") |
| 37% | SEER | 4 | Nostradamus, for one (rhymes with "peer") |
| 37% | PROPCOMIC | 9 | One with a thing for laughter? |
| 37% | RACER | 5 | One with a need for speed |
| 37% | LION | 4 | One with a nose for gnus? |
| 37% | KARATEMASTER | 12 | One with real chops for chops |
| 37% | HATERS | 6 | People with intense dislikes |
| 36% | NEEDLE | 6 | One with an eye for fine clothing? |
| 36% | CYCLOPS | 7 | One with an eye for a storyteller? |
| 36% | WIT | 3 | One with a knack for snappy comebacks |
| 36% | ADREP | 5 | One with accounts, for short |
| 36% | ADREP | 5 | One with commercial interests, for short |
| 36% | GRAD | 4 | One with a diploma, for short |
| 36% | DOC | 3 | One with the stethoscope, for short |
| 36% | DET | 3 | One with the force, for short |
| 36% | DOC | 3 | One with a stethoscope, for short |
| 36% | KPS | 3 | Ones with potato peelers, for short |
| 36% | POET | 4 | One with the rhymes |
| 36% | SEEKER | 6 | One looking for something |
| 36% | SEEKER | 6 | One searching for something |
| 35% | WEARER | 6 | One with something on |
| 35% | JEER | 4 | Something that rhymes with, and might accompany, a sneer |
| 35% | YEARN | 5 | To have an intense longing for something |
| 35% | IDOL | 4 | One with millions of Instagram followers, say |
| 35% | DONOR | 5 | One providing an organ for transplant, say |