| 100% | WELOST | 6 | Sad response to "How was the game?" |
| 60% | IWON | 4 | Triumphant response to "How'd the game go?" |
| 55% | INDC | 4 | Response to "Where is the White House?": 2 wds. |
| 52% | ALIBI | 5 | Response to "Where were you on the night of ...?" |
| 52% | IMOK | 4 | Response to "How are you?" |
| 50% | LATE | 4 | How the fashionable are said to arrive |
| 50% | DONTASK | 7 | Response to "How bad was it?" |
| 50% | IWON | 4 | “How was the match?” response |
| 49% | XXXXXXXXXXXX | 12 | How the perfect game is shown on the scoresheet |
| 49% | FINE | 4 | Frequent response to "How are you?" |
| 49% | NEVERBETTER | 11 | Upbeat response to "How are you?" |
| 49% | FINE | 4 | Common response to "How are you?" |
| 48% | VERBATIM | 8 | How one is supposed to repeat the Oath of Allegiance |
| 48% | UNO | 3 | Game in which the object is to score 500 points |
| 48% | DONTASK | 7 | Exasperated response to "How was your day?" |
| 48% | FINE | 4 | Common response to "How are you doing?" |
| 48% | CHRISHARRISON | 13 | Host of the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire": 2 wds. |
| 48% | EPIC | 4 | "He made an ___ play and won us the game!" (something to be remembered) |
| 48% | DARTS | 5 | Game in which the object is to end with zero points |
| 47% | MOTHER | 6 | In the Bible, how Eve was related to Cain |
| 47% | IMOK | 4 | Common response to "How are you?": 2 wds. |
| 47% | IMOUT | 5 | "Peace!," and a hint to how the answers to the starred clues were formed |
| 47% | ETA | 3 | Response to "How much longer will you be?", essentially: Abbr. |
| 47% | ICHEATED | 8 | Response to "How'd you get the answer so fast?" |
| 47% | ACES | 4 | Pitchers likely to be selected for the All-Star Game |
| 47% | AGES | 4 | Possible response to "How long's it been?" |
| 46% | BACKWARD | 8 | How the answers to the italicized clues must be entered into this puzzle |
| 46% | WAR | 3 | Card game where the object is to win the whole deck |
| 46% | IWON | 4 | Positive response to “How’d the match go?” |
| 46% | FREEMAN | 7 | Cathy ___, sprinter who was the first Australian indigenous person to become a Commonwealth Games gold medalist |