| 100% | OYSTERS | 7 | Shellfish eaten when there's an "r" in the month |
| 50% | TENSE | 5 | Energy when there is an elephant in the room |
| 45% | HUMID | 5 | When there's lots of water vapor in the air |
| 40% | PHI | 3 | When repeated, it's the name of an island group in Thailand |
| 37% | DLO | 3 | Place where your correspondence ends up when there's no return address and the main address seems to written in Klingon (abbr.) |
| 37% | LITTLEONE | 9 | He said "Roll over" when there were 10 in the bed |
| 36% | SUNOCO | 6 | There's an arrow in its logo |
| 36% | APRIL | 5 | Month in 2021 when NASA's Ingenuity became the first powered aircraft to fly on Mars |
| 35% | APR | 3 | Month when the Oscars are scheduled to be awarded in 2021 (Abbr.) |
| 35% | SNOWDAY | 7 | When there's no class because of all the banks? |
| 35% | GEM | 3 | There's an official one for every month |
| 35% | ATNOON | 6 | When there's darkness, in a Koestler title |
| 35% | MOTHERLODE | 10 | In the ___, there's the greatest concentration of ___ |
| 35% | AUG | 3 | Month in 2021 when Microsoft pulled the plug on Internet Explorer (for short) |
| 34% | MAY | 3 | Month in 2021 when the "Friends" reunion screened 17 years after the show ended |
| 34% | MINUET | 6 | It's done in the form of an S or a Z |
| 34% | ATNOON | 6 | When there's "darkness" in a classic Arthur Koestler novel |
| 34% | JUNE | 4 | Month when summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere |
| 34% | SAND | 4 | There's lots in the desert |
| 34% | ADARS | 5 | Months when some people don't eat during the day of the Fast of Esther |
| 34% | ONLY | 4 | The "O" in S.R.O. |
| 34% | CEES | 4 | There's an awful lot of these in Coca-Cola Classic |
| 33% | MAR | 3 | Month when spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere: Abbr. |
| 33% | SKY | 3 | The limit when there's no limit |
| 33% | BRIDES | 6 | There are more of these in the U.S. in October than any other month, surprisingly |
| 33% | SIL | 3 | The "S" in R.S.V.P. |
| 33% | DAM | 3 | What the fish said when he ran into the wall, in an old joke |
| 33% | GEM | 3 | There's one hidden in the answer to each starred clue |
| 33% | SEPT | 4 | Month when the NFL's season begins (Abbr.) |
| 33% | ULT | 3 | In the month before the present, for short |