| 100% | RIPE | 4 | Ready to be plucked from the vine |
| 66% | RIPE | 4 | Soon to be plucked from the plant, perhaps |
| 65% | DONE | 4 | Ready to be removed from the oven |
| 63% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be drawn from the keg: 2 wds. |
| 56% | RIPE | 4 | Ready to be plucked |
| 54% | RIPE | 4 | Ready to be plucked and eaten |
| 54% | RIPE | 4 | Fruit ready to be plucked |
| 51% | RIPE | 4 | Like a fruit that's ready to be plucked |
| 51% | RIPE | 4 | Ready for a farmer to pluck off the vine |
| 51% | RIPE | 4 | Ready to be picked from a tree |
| 50% | DONE | 4 | Ready to be taken out of the oven |
| 49% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be poured from a keg: 2 wds. |
| 49% | DRY | 3 | Ready to be taken off the clothesline |
| 49% | RIPE | 4 | Ready to pick from the garden |
| 47% | WARMINGUP | 9 | Getting ready to exercise ... or what the words composed of circled letters are doing when read from left to right? |
| 47% | ONTAP | 5 | Beer ready to be poured from a barrel (2wds) |
| 45% | SCAMS | 5 | Phone calls purporting to be from the IRS, say |
| 45% | SHE | 3 | "___ Used To Be Mine" (song from the musical "Waitress") |
| 45% | DESPAIRS | 8 | Is ready to give up the ship |
| 45% | SEE | 3 | "I sprang from the bed to ___ what was the matter" |
| 44% | DELE | 4 | Marking indicating something to be removed from the text |
| 44% | EEK | 3 | Exclamation not likely to be heard from the intrepid |
| 43% | YENTAS | 6 | Types from the shtetl who consider your business to be their business |
| 43% | BOOK | 4 | Item you might check out from the library and be "glued" to |
| 43% | AWAITS | 6 | "She ___ news from the company she applied to" ("She is expecting news") |
| 43% | ROTTEN | 6 | Robbie ___, character from the series "LazyTown" who qualifies to be a couch potato |
| 43% | JOEY | 4 | ___ Tribbiani, character from the series "Friends" who qualifies to be a couch potato |
| 42% | IVE | 3 | "___ been to the mountaintop" (quote from MLK's final speech) |
| 42% | LOUISIANA | 9 | According to the song, Johnny B. Goode is from __ |
| 42% | ALLERGY | 7 | Sneezing in the spring is from an __ to pollen |