| 100% | SPELL | 5 | Recite a word's letters in order |
| 61% | SPELL | 5 | Recite the letters in a word |
| 55% | RISE | 4 | Word in a bailiff's order |
| 54% | CEASE | 5 | Order in a lawyer's letter |
| 53% | AEIOU | 5 | Letters in a so-called "supervocalic" word |
| 51% | SPELLING | 8 | The agreed sequence of letters in a word |
| 50% | SORTED | 6 | All in order, as the words in a dictionary |
| 49% | VOID | 4 | Word written in big letters on a check |
| 49% | AEIOU | 5 | Letters found in a so-called "supervocalic" word |
| 49% | EVER | 4 | Word after "as" in a letter closing |
| 49% | DEAR | 4 | First word in a letter, often |
| 49% | DEAR | 4 | First word in a letter, usually |
| 49% | SPELL | 5 | Say a word's letters |
| 48% | AEIOU | 5 | Letters that appear once each in a supervocalic word |
| 48% | DEAR | 4 | First word in a letter to Santa |
| 48% | DEAR | 4 | Loving first word in a letter, often |
| 48% | SIERRA | 6 | Word representing the letter S in the NATO phonetic alphabet |
| 47% | ANAGRAM | 7 | Rearrangement of a word's letters |
| 47% | EIEIO | 5 | Letters in a children's refrain |
| 47% | DEAR | 4 | Starting word in a letter to someone you love |
| 47% | LSMFT | 5 | Letters in a 60's cigarette ad |
| 47% | SWM | 3 | Letters in a certain bachelor's ad |
| 47% | AWOL | 4 | Letters in a deserter's personnel file |
| 46% | ATT | 3 | Letters in a long-distance company's number |
| 46% | ATT | 3 | Letters in a communications company's 800-number |
| 45% | SHIPSHAPE | 9 | In perfect order ... or, as two words, what's formed by applying the answers for the five starred clues to the circled letters |
| 45% | CENT | 4 | Word that appears in capital letters on the back of a penny |
| 44% | IOU | 3 | Letters in a note from someone who's borrowing money |
| 44% | ICE | 3 | It's never in a neat order |
| 44% | SPELLING | 8 | Word with 11a, to refer to a contest where you might hear some letters recited |