| 100% | STUB | 4 | Piece that's left after a ticket is torn in two |
| 42% | STUB | 4 | What's left of a ticket after it's been used |
| 39% | EGYPT | 5 | Did you know, that a city named after 44a is in Cairo's country? |
| 39% | SCRAPS | 6 | Bits and pieces that are left over from a meal |
| 38% | ASH | 3 | What's left after a fire's been extinguished |
| 37% | STUB | 4 | Piece of a ticket you retain after going in |
| 37% | ORIG | 4 | Paper that may be left in a copier (Abbr.) |
| 37% | STUMP | 5 | What's left after a tree is chopped down |
| 36% | BOMB | 4 | Piece in the game Stratego that can only be defeated by a Miner |
| 36% | NOR | 3 | Conjunction that often appears two words after "neither" in a sentence |
| 36% | BISHOP | 6 | Chess game piece that's a position in the clergy |
| 36% | ISLAND | 6 | Freestanding surface named after a piece of land surrounded by water that adds workspace in your kitchen |
| 35% | SERA | 4 | Word repeated after “que” in a phrase that means “whatever will be will be” |
| 34% | STUB | 4 | What's left of a ticket after it's used |
| 34% | ENCORE | 6 | Word that's shouted after a band leaves the stage |
| 34% | INSERTS | 7 | Pieces that are put in |
| 34% | HORATIO | 7 | A "man that is not passion's slave," in Shakespeare |
| 34% | SOGGY | 5 | Like cereal that's been in milk for a while |
| 34% | HOPE | 4 | All that was left in Pandora's box |
| 34% | MARS | 4 | Planet that was the origin for a two-billion-year-old rock found in the Sahara desert |
| 34% | RIP | 3 | Tear in a piece of fabric |
| 33% | ASH | 3 | What's left in a fireplace after the fire goes out |
| 33% | TENON | 5 | Projecting end of a piece of wood that is formed to fit into a mortise in another piece |
| 33% | REDONION | 8 | Ingredient that might be in a "ploughman's lunch" |
| 33% | KINGS | 5 | Pieces that can be put in check |
| 33% | PAWNS | 5 | Pieces that are typically sacrificed in gambits |
| 33% | TIMOTHYDALTON | 13 | Actor from "Wuthering Heights", who has played James Bond in two films (as well as a third that was never released) : 2 wds. |
| 33% | ASH | 3 | Residue left after a campfire is put out |
| 33% | POEM | 4 | Piece that may be written in iambic pentameter |
| 33% | SNAP | 4 | ___ in two (break sharply after being bent) |