| 100% | NUB | 3 | Pencil that's almost completely used up |
| 75% | NUB | 3 | Pencil that's almost used up |
| 47% | STUB | 4 | Pencil that's been worn down to almost nothing |
| 47% | NUB | 3 | Pencil that's been used nearly to the eraser |
| 47% | NUB | 3 | Pencil that's been much used |
| 46% | ALLGONE | 7 | Completely used up |
| 46% | EXHAUSTED | 9 | Completely used up |
| 45% | ALLGONE | 7 | Completely used up (2 wds.) |
| 42% | LIPLINER | 8 | Makeup pencil that helps plump up one's pout: 2 wds. |
| 42% | MAXES | 5 | Completely uses up, as a credit card, with "out" |
| 40% | SHARP | 5 | Like a pencil that's ready to use |
| 39% | GMO | 3 | Technology that's used to produce almost all the world's cotton, in brief |
| 38% | ARGON | 5 | Noble gas that makes up almost 1% of the Earth's atmosphere |
| 37% | ARM | 3 | Upper limb that is used in boxing |
| 36% | NUB | 3 | Pencil that's seen better days |
| 35% | ATECAPITAL | 10 | Used up one's financial resources? |
| 35% | NUB | 3 | A pencil that's mostly eraser |
| 34% | GRAPHITE | 8 | A shiny black substance that is used in pencils |
| 34% | STUB | 4 | Pencil that's about ready to be thrown away |
| 34% | NOVA | 4 | Big star that's really blowing up |
| 34% | NUB | 3 | Pencil that's about at the end of its usefulness |
| 33% | DRYMARTINI | 10 | Cocktail that’s almost all gin |
| 33% | BPLUS | 5 | Grade that’s almost an “A” |
| 33% | ILK | 3 | Kind that's almost silk? |
| 33% | DROID | 5 | Creation that's almost human |
| 33% | OLLIE | 5 | Skateboarding trick that can be used to get up a curb |
| 33% | JELLICLES | 9 | T S Eliot's cats that meet up at a ball |
| 33% | ATEINTO | 7 | Used up gradually, as one's savings (2 wds.) |
| 33% | EATINTO | 7 | Use up gradually, as one's savings (2 wds.) |
| 33% | EAR | 3 | It's used to pick things up |