| 100% | HOTDOG | 6 | Sausage in a bun, sounds like a warm canine |
| 52% | HOTDOG | 6 | A sausage in a bun |
| 48% | BOODOG | 6 | Barbecued Mongolian dish whose name sounds like a disapproving canine |
| 48% | DOG | 3 | *Hot ___, sausage in a bun you may get in 14a |
| 47% | WOOLF | 5 | Author whose name sounds like a canine |
| 45% | NIECE | 5 | Relative whose name sounds like a city in France |
| 45% | COLOGNE | 7 | German city, sounds like a weak perfume in English |
| 45% | RIO | 3 | Duran Duran song, sounds like a city in Brazil |
| 45% | SKUA | 4 | Seabird, sounds like a metal rod used in cooking |
| 45% | NEIN | 4 | German word that sounds like a number in English |
| 45% | EERIE | 5 | Like a creaking sound in the dark |
| 45% | DAWG | 4 | Slang term that means "bro" and sounds like a canine |
| 45% | ADULT | 5 | One whose voice sounds like a trombone, in "Peanuts" cartoons |
| 44% | REDRUM | 6 | Ominous term in "The Shining" that sounds like a colorful drink |
| 44% | RISEN | 5 | Like yeasted dough, after sitting in a warm place |
| 44% | ECHO | 4 | Sound like this this this this in a hallway |
| 44% | ECHO | 4 | Bounce back, like sound in a cave |
| 43% | OWL | 3 | Animal who makes a sound that sounds like a word in this clue |
| 43% | HOTDOG | 6 | A food that's a sausage in a bun with ketchup |
| 42% | AYE | 3 | Word that sounds like a letter of the alphabet that's not in it |
| 42% | VESPA | 5 | Bike whose name sounds like a Bond girl reprised by Eva Green in 2006 |
| 42% | EWES | 4 | Animals whose name sounds like a letter that doesn't appear in its name |
| 42% | ARENT | 5 | Word that sounds like "orange" in a classic knock-knock joke |
| 42% | NOME | 4 | Alaskan city that sounds like it belongs in a 41-Down |
| 41% | SENATORS | 8 | Ottawa ___, Canadian ice hockey team in the NHL whose name sounds like a group of politicians |
| 41% | UPTALK | 6 | Rise in pitch that can make a statement sound like a question |
| 41% | EEK | 3 | Small Alaskan community that sounds like a cartoon shriek, but whose name means "two eyes" in Yupik |
| 40% | EXTRASEC | 8 | Champagne classification that sounds like something you might want in a close game |
| 40% | OSKAR | 5 | Title role in a 1993 film ... which sounds like a prize the film won |
| 39% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument that sounds like "a duck if the duck were a songbird," according to Angels in America |