| 100% | HIPS | 4 | They are essential in doing the twist or playing Twister |
| 39% | THEATER | 7 | Building in which plays or performances are done |
| 38% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 38% | ASPS | 4 | The snakes in Indiana Jones' "Why do they have to be snakes?" |
| 38% | ORDER | 5 | What the theme answers are in, or what they contain |
| 38% | MINT | 4 | "What did the tic-tacs say when they fell in love? It was ___ to be" |
| 37% | MAKEMONEY | 9 | Earn … or what answering the starred clues will do in each case |
| 37% | TURNINGRED | 10 | Showing embarrassment ... or what the circles in three puzzle answers are literally doing |
| 35% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 35% | CHECKER | 7 | Chubby __ had everyone doing the twist in 1960 |
| 35% | SERIES | 6 | When two or more games are played between the same teams in baseball it is called a ____ |
| 35% | PARTS | 5 | They are cast in a play |
| 35% | DINOSAURS | 9 | They were big in the past |
| 35% | TAILFINS | 8 | They were big in the '50s |
| 34% | BATHING | 7 | Could be done in the sun or the tub |
| 34% | MOVES | 5 | They are done on the dance floor |
| 34% | SNOUTS | 6 | They are invariably found in the trough |
| 34% | PROTONS | 7 | They are in the atom's nucleus |
| 34% | HANDAXES | 8 | They were striking in the Stone Age |
| 34% | BANDS | 5 | They were big in the 40's |
| 34% | CATTLE | 6 | They were driven in the Old West |
| 34% | SABERS | 6 | They were drawn in the Civil War |
| 34% | LAERTES | 7 | Character in "Hamlet" who is struck by a poison-tipped sword (we did say the play's a tragedy) |
| 34% | SSRS | 4 | They were wiped off the map in '91 |
| 34% | HOP | 3 | Event where the twist was done |
| 33% | LAP | 3 | What a runner will do to another when they're more than 400 m ahead in the 5,000 m |
| 33% | BOILDOWNTO | 10 | Be the essential element in |
| 33% | HEIRS | 5 | They're in the will |
| 33% | MAT | 3 | Playing surface in the game Twister |
| 33% | WARFILM | 7 | The Expendables or They Were Expendable |