| 100% | PARES | 5 | Removes with a small knife, as a peel |
| 100% | PARE | 4 | Remove with a small knife, as a peel |
| 63% | PARE | 4 | Cut (down), as with a small kitchen knife |
| 58% | STRIPSOFF | 9 | Removes with a putty knife |
| 56% | PARE | 4 | Cut with a small knife |
| 55% | PARE | 4 | Remove, as a peel |
| 55% | AXED | 4 | Removed with a large hatchet, as a tree branch |
| 55% | AXED | 4 | Removed with a big hatchet, as a tree branch |
| 53% | PARE | 4 | Cut with a small kitchen knife |
| 52% | TIDESOVER | 9 | Satisfies, as with a small snack |
| 52% | PARE | 4 | Peel with a knife |
| 52% | PARED | 5 | Peeled with a knife |
| 52% | PARE | 4 | Remove, as a potato peel |
| 52% | PARE | 4 | Remove, as a fruit peel |
| 51% | DABOFF | 6 | Remove, as sweat with a handkerchief |
| 51% | AVOCADOPITS | 11 | Seeds often removed with a sharp chef’s knife |
| 51% | PRYOFF | 6 | Remove with effort, as with a crowbar: 2 wds. |
| 50% | PARE | 4 | Remove outer vegetable skin with a knife |
| 50% | STABS | 5 | Pierces, as with a knife |
| 50% | DAB | 3 | Apply a small amount using a fingertip, as with perfume |
| 50% | PARES | 5 | Peels off the rind with a knife, say |
| 50% | SWEPTASIDE | 10 | Removed as with a wave of the hand |
| 50% | STAB | 4 | Thrust in, as with a knife |
| 49% | LASES | 5 | Hits with a beam, as to remove a tattoo |
| 49% | TANGERINE | 9 | Fruit with peel, like a small orange |
| 49% | OUST | 4 | To remove forcibly, as with a dictator |
| 48% | CHOP | 4 | Cut into small pieces, as with a cleaver |
| 47% | CROUTON | 7 | Small piece of fried bread served with soup or as a garnish |
| 47% | TREECREEPER | 11 | Small songbird with a curved bill, such as UK resident the common — |
| 44% | SPURGE | 6 | Plant with a milky sap and small flowers such as the wood — or sun — |