| 100% | CHERRYPICK | 10 | Selectively choose from what's available |
| 55% | POTLUCK | 7 | Choice from what's available; taking a chance |
| 42% | ODD | 3 | Different from what's expected |
| 41% | SUP | 3 | Shortened hello from What's up |
| 40% | ANI | 3 | What's far from fair? |
| 40% | YEAST | 5 | What's missing from matzo |
| 39% | LMN | 3 | What's missing from a KO? |
| 39% | ASH | 3 | What's flicked from a cigarette |
| 39% | ASH | 3 | What's cleaned up from campfires |
| 39% | LAVA | 4 | What's spewed from a volcano |
| 39% | PODS | 4 | What's left from shelling peas |
| 39% | STATE | 5 | What's often separated from church |
| 39% | WOOL | 4 | What's sheared from a sheep |
| 39% | STUBS | 5 | What's missing from e-tickets |
| 39% | CULL | 4 | Choose what's choice |
| 38% | SCYTHIAN | 8 | A nomadic warrior from what's now south Siberia |
| 38% | NET | 3 | What's suspended from a basketball hoop |
| 38% | LAVA | 4 | What's erupting from Kilauea in Hawaii |
| 38% | ASH | 3 | What's tapped from a burning cigarette |
| 38% | TASTE | 5 | What's missing from the accounting department? |
| 38% | AMP | 3 | What's missing from an "unplugged" performance |
| 38% | MAKEDO | 6 | Manage with what's available |
| 38% | MADEDO | 6 | Worked with what's available |
| 37% | ESS | 3 | What's extracted from soil to get oil? |
| 37% | YOLK | 4 | What's missing from an egg-white omelet |
| 37% | DIALTONE | 8 | What's not heard from a cell phone |
| 37% | DENIM | 5 | What Levi's are made from |
| 37% | ZEST | 4 | What's grated from a citrus fruit's peel |
| 37% | ZEST | 4 | What's grated from a citrus fruit's rind |
| 37% | VOWELS | 6 | What's been taken from this puzzle's fives |