| 100% | ETHER | 5 | Three using anaesthetic |
| 100% | ETHER | 5 | Three used anaesthetic |
| 55% | ETHER | 5 | Anaesthetic used there |
| 52% | ETHER | 5 | Anaesthetic that’s used there |
| 49% | SKAT | 4 | Three-handed card game using 32 cards |
| 49% | ETHER | 5 | Solvent, once used as anaesthetic |
| 49% | PROCAINE | 8 | Local anaesthetic used in dentistry |
| 49% | OMG | 3 | Three letters commonly used to express surprise! |
| 49% | ARROWS | 6 | Three ___, symbol used to cross out swastikas |
| 48% | DIE | 3 | One of three used in a game of Cee-lo |
| 47% | TRIPOD | 6 | Three-legged frame used to hold a camera |
| 47% | TRIANGLES | 9 | Three-sided shapes used as templates in quilting |
| 47% | WASTENOTWANTNOT | 15 | Conservation phrase to use three times |
| 46% | TRIVET | 6 | Three-legged stand often used under a hot dish |
| 46% | DUN | 3 | Dramatic sound effect, when used three times |
| 44% | CARDSHUFFLER | 12 | Vegas device used literally in three puzzle answers |
| 44% | PIUS | 4 | Only name used by three 20th-century popes |
| 43% | HYP | 3 | Abbreviation commonly used to refer to the "Big Three" |
| 43% | HOLEPUNCH | 9 | Device used in conjunction with a three-ring binder |
| 43% | SPITE | 5 | ___ and Malice (game that uses three decks of cards) |
| 43% | EPEE | 4 | One of three types of sword used in fencing |
| 43% | NOR | 3 | Word used three times in the Postal Service creed |
| 43% | TORA | 4 | Word used three times in a 1970 war movie |
| 42% | ETHER | 5 | An organic compound that was once used as an anaesthetic |
| 42% | CHLOROFORM | 10 | Colourless liquid formerly used as an inhaled anaesthetic during surgery |
| 42% | TABLESPOON | 10 | Measure of volume used in cooking equal to three teaspoons |
| 42% | XEBEC | 5 | Small three-masted Mediterranean vessel formerly used by Algerian pirates |
| 42% | CINERAMA | 8 | Big-screen innovation of 1952 that used three synchronized projectors |
| 40% | TRIPTYCH | 8 | Set of three pictures or panels often used as an altarpiece |
| 39% | BALL | 4 | Item used in three of the Big Four sports, but not hockey |