| 100% | CRACKLING | 9 | The crisp-cooked rind of a joint of pork |
| 51% | DISLOCATE | 9 | Disturb the normal position of a joint |
| 51% | CRACKLING | 9 | Crisp rind of roast pork |
| 50% | SYNOVITIS | 9 | Painful inflammation of the lining of a joint |
| 49% | BASTES | 6 | Pours fat over a joint of meat cooking in oven |
| 49% | ANKLE | 5 | Joint near the hem of a maxi skirt |
| 49% | CRACKLING | 9 | Roasted skin of a pork joint |
| 48% | BAKE | 4 | Cook in the oven, as a pan of brownies |
| 48% | ELBOWS | 6 | Joints in the anterior limb of a lower vertebrate |
| 48% | BUTT | 4 | Pork ___ (cut that comes from the shoulder of a pig) |
| 47% | HANDSUP | 7 | Cry at the end of a cooking competition |
| 47% | BUNION | 6 | A painful bump on the joint of one's big toe |
| 47% | SHU | 3 | Word in the name of a Chinese pork dish |
| 46% | BROIL | 5 | Oven setting used to crisp the top of a casserole |
| 46% | SEAR | 4 | Cook the exterior of, as a tuna steak |
| 46% | PARSONSNOSE | 11 | Fatty end portion of the tail of a fowl when cooked |
| 45% | BURNT | 5 | Cooked to the point of charring, as a steak |
| 45% | GALA | 4 | Type of pork pie with a hard boiled egg in the center |
| 44% | HOCK | 4 | Joint in the hind leg of a horse between the gaskin and the cannon bone |
| 44% | EATUP | 5 | What a cook might say at the start of a meal: 2 wds. |
| 44% | SPILLED | 7 | ___ milk, common cooking mishap that stems from the overboiling of a dairy product |
| 44% | GAMMON | 6 | Cooked hindquarters of a side of bacon |
| 44% | AIELLO | 6 | Danny who played the owner of a pizza joint in a Spike Lee joint |
| 44% | LARD | 4 | Fat from the abdomen of a pig rendered and clarified for use in cooking |
| 41% | TENON | 5 | Part of a joint |
| 41% | TOKE | 4 | Puff of a joint |
| 41% | MORTISE | 7 | Part of a joint |
| 41% | GEN | 3 | Rank of Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (abbr.) |
| 41% | ONCE | 4 | (1/7) "___ a year, during the crisp days of late November, families eagerly prepare for a special holiday." |
| 41% | ALPHADOG | 8 | The so-called leader of a pack of canines |