| 100% | WARM | 4 | Sort of hot, but not really |
| 51% | ARID | 4 | Hot but not humid |
| 50% | WARMEDOVER | 10 | Ostensibly fresh, but not really |
| 50% | WORKINGVACATION | 15 | Time off, but not really |
| 49% | MAKESANEMPTYPROMISE | 19 | Pledges, but not really |
| 49% | BUM | 3 | Borrow, but not really |
| 49% | INNAMEONLY | 10 | Supposedly, but not really |
| 49% | SYNC | 4 | Lip-___ (sing, but not really) |
| 49% | MOUTH | 5 | Say but not really mean |
| 45% | PINCENEZ | 8 | Sort of spectacles not much seen nowadays |
| 44% | AREA | 4 | "That's not really my ___ of expertise" |
| 44% | CUP | 3 | "That's not really my ___ of tea" |
| 44% | CUP | 3 | "That's not really my ___ of tea." |
| 44% | TERSE | 5 | Short but not sweet, of few words |
| 43% | HAIKU | 5 | Sort of poem not usually pluralized by adding an -s |
| 43% | OUR | 3 | Something that's not really part of SOS |
| 43% | AMSTERDAM | 9 | Largest Dutch city, but not seat of government |
| 43% | LOWERCASELETTER | 15 | The "e," but not the "B," of eBay |
| 43% | ISLE | 4 | Of Man, but not of woman |
| 43% | HARDG | 5 | Feature of Greece but not Germany |
| 43% | LLAMA | 5 | Source of wool but not lanolin |
| 43% | SYS | 3 | Part of CBS but not PBS |
| 43% | ELS | 3 | Features of lollipops but not suckers? |
| 43% | SOFTC | 5 | Component of cider but not cola? |
| 43% | DIALTONES | 9 | Features of landlines but not cellphones |
| 42% | TIE | 3 | Rare, but not impossible, outcome of a Scrabble game |
| 42% | IMPLICIT | 8 | Not stated, but understood because of context |
| 42% | MILD | 4 | Not hot, in terms of chicken wings |
| 41% | FOURSTAR | 8 | High quality hotel, but not quite five out of five |
| 41% | INORGANIC | 9 | Not animal or vegetable but composed of minerals |