| 100% | HEH | 3 | The laugh of someone who's up to no good |
| 51% | HAUL | 4 | Video of someone who's got the goods? |
| 50% | NASAL | 5 | Like the voice of someone who's stuffed up |
| 45% | SHY | 3 | Like someone who's unlikely to be the life of the party |
| 45% | PEST | 4 | Insect that's up to no good? |
| 45% | GARDENER | 8 | Someone who tends to the landscaping of homes |
| 44% | ATHEIST | 7 | Someone who has no belief in the existence of gods |
| 43% | LINDARONSTADT | 13 | "You're No Good" singer who's one of the three women on the 1987 album "Trio": 2 wds. |
| 43% | EGOCENTRIC | 10 | Like someone who only has I's for you? ... or an apt description of the answers to starred clues |
| 42% | IDOL | 4 | Someone who's looked up to |
| 42% | SINISTER | 8 | Up to no good |
| 42% | EVIL | 4 | Up to no good |
| 42% | RAISINGCAIN | 11 | Up to no good |
| 41% | STENO | 5 | One who's up to the minutes |
| 41% | RINGER | 6 | Someone who's really too good to be competing |
| 41% | ERR | 3 | Get up to no good |
| 40% | VIP | 3 | Someone who's not just one of the masses: Abbr. |
| 40% | BEETRED | 7 | Like the face of someone who's deeply embarrassed (2 wds.) |
| 39% | LISTENERS | 9 | The ones who hear no good of themselves |
| 39% | KNEEHIGH | 8 | Reaching up to the level of one's patella |
| 39% | ROWLING | 7 | Best-selling author who was a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year |
| 38% | HERMITAGE | 9 | The dwelling of someone who lives in solitude |
| 38% | ODIN | 4 | God who gave up an eye to drink from the spring of wisdom |
| 38% | PROWLER | 7 | Person who creeps about at night and up to no good |
| 38% | SOLEMNLY | 8 | I __ swear that I am up to no good, says Potter |
| 38% | LINDARONSTADT | 13 | "You're No Good" singer who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014: 2 wds. |
| 38% | QUEENOFDENIAL | 13 | Woman who's the very best at saying no? |
| 38% | NOOSE | 5 | The loop it's best to be out of |
| 38% | GALILEO | 7 | Astronomer who was the first to discover that the Milky Way was made up of stars |
| 38% | HARPERLEE | 9 | Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll |