| 100% | DURESS | 6 | Pressure to do something, sometimes used as a legal defense |
| 41% | SUPPER | 6 | Sometimes used as a synonym of dinner |
| 41% | PHANTOMS | 8 | Sometimes used as a synonym for ghosts |
| 40% | OREO | 4 | Cookie sometimes used as a cheesecake ingredient |
| 40% | DATE | 4 | Fruit sometimes used as a sugar substitute |
| 40% | OAR | 3 | Rowing tool sometimes used as a trophy |
| 40% | NAAN | 4 | Bread sometimes used as a pizza crust |
| 40% | DATES | 5 | Fruits sometimes used as a replacement for sugar |
| 39% | TEE | 3 | Garment that's sometimes used as a promotional tool |
| 39% | SAW | 3 | Tool that's sometimes used as a musical instrument |
| 38% | IROKO | 5 | Hardwood of tropical Africa sometimes used as a substitute for teak |
| 38% | SLAMDUNK | 8 | Basketball shot, also a word commonly used to refer to something done very successfully: 2 wds. |
| 38% | NAILSIT | 7 | Does something to a T |
| 38% | REORG | 5 | Corporate process that’s sometimes used as a euphemism for “mass layoffs” |
| 38% | LOL | 3 | Acronym used as a response to a joke |
| 38% | ALIBI | 5 | Story used for a legal defense |
| 38% | NOTCH | 5 | A symbol used to tally something, such as a cut on a gunfighter's barrel |
| 37% | ITCH | 4 | A yearning to do something |
| 37% | DNA | 3 | Genetic material sometimes used as evidence in a trial: Abbr. |
| 37% | REACTTO | 7 | Do something as a result of: 2 wds. |
| 37% | REACTTO | 7 | Do something as a result of (2 wds.) |
| 37% | PLUNDERER | 9 | Pressure to rule nerd out as a raider |
| 37% | INTEND | 6 | To have something in mind as a goal |
| 37% | GARNISH | 7 | To put something on food as a decoration |
| 37% | TAKESON | 7 | Agrees to do, as a task |
| 36% | STRETCHER | 9 | Bar used as a brace to extend an artist's canvas |
| 36% | READS | 5 | Interprets, as a defense does a quarterback |
| 36% | TEAR | 4 | To rip something, such as a phonebook |
| 36% | REHEARSE | 8 | To practice something, such as a play |
| 36% | UNFINISHED | 10 | Still to do, as a loose END |