| 100% | TINGLING | 8 | Spine-__ describes something fantastically scary |
| 40% | ASIAN | 5 | Describes something from the largest continent |
| 39% | HAIRRAISER | 10 | Something scary |
| 39% | PRIMITIVE | 9 | Describes something in an early evolutionary form |
| 38% | TERM | 4 | Word used to describe something |
| 38% | HAIRRAISER | 10 | Something very scary |
| 37% | STOPPABLE | 9 | Describes something that can be brought to an end |
| 37% | KNUCKLE | 7 | Near the __ describes something a little rude |
| 37% | CREEPY | 6 | Scary, eerie, spine-chilling, spooky |
| 36% | KEEL | 4 | Something often described as "even" |
| 36% | TITLE | 5 | Something typically found on a spine |
| 35% | TOLDOF | 6 | Described, as something in the past |
| 35% | PAINLESS | 8 | Adjective describing something that doesn't hurt at all |
| 35% | UGLY | 4 | Pretty ___, oxymoron used to describe something unpleasant or repulsive |
| 35% | HOT | 3 | "Selling like ___cakes," idiom describing something in high demand |
| 35% | IRISH | 5 | Like people who describe something beyond repair as "banjaxed" |
| 34% | DEFINE | 6 | Describe the meaning or character of something |
| 34% | EPIC | 4 | Grand, also used to describe something that is really cool |
| 34% | WALK | 4 | Word after "cake" to describe something that is very easy |
| 33% | APP | 3 | Something you might describe as touch-and-go? |
| 33% | NOISE | 5 | Something that may be described to an auto mechanic |
| 30% | BONA | 4 | "___ fide," Latin phrase often used to mean "in good faith" while describing something genuine |
| 30% | FRESHAIR | 8 | Something new and different might be described as a breath of it |
| 29% | TELL | 4 | To explain something, also used to describe a giveaway in Poker |
| 27% | TAKE | 4 | "___ the cake," idiom used to describe something that stands out, either as the best or the worst |
| 26% | TALKOFTHETOWN | 13 | Something stirring up local buzz . . . or an apt way to describe this puzzle’s starred clues |
| 23% | BACKBONE | 8 | Spine |
| 23% | HEARTPOUNDING | 13 | Scary |
| 23% | SPINETINGLING | 13 | Scary |
| 23% | EERIE | 5 | Scary |