| 100% | MITES | 5 | Tiny pests that could ruin stored foods (rhymes with "rights") |
| 42% | GNAT | 4 | Tiny pest that can fly inside a "cloud" of bugs |
| 42% | ANT | 3 | Tiny pest that carries food away |
| 37% | SCONE | 5 | Pastry that can rhyme with "cone" or "gone" |
| 37% | TAD | 3 | Tiny word that rhymes with "fad" |
| 37% | RUNT | 4 | Tiniest puppy that rhymes with "hunt" |
| 37% | PETSHOP | 7 | Store that might sell canned food |
| 37% | DUSTMITE | 8 | Tiny household pest that can trigger allergies: 2 wds. |
| 37% | ERR | 3 | Verb that can rhyme with either "bare" or "burr" |
| 36% | PEA | 3 | Food that can be catapulted with a spoon |
| 36% | BAGEL | 5 | Food that can be ordered "Everything with nothing" |
| 36% | POTATO | 6 | Food that rhymes with 13 Across |
| 36% | TOMATO | 6 | Food that rhymes with 20 Across |
| 36% | MOUTH | 5 | Food insertion organ that one can stuff with dessert |
| 34% | PAP | 3 | Baby food that rhymes with "yap" |
| 33% | FLEA | 4 | Tiny pest that afflicts dogs |
| 33% | RAT | 3 | Pest that can be a pet |
| 32% | CRUMPET | 7 | English breakfast food that rhymes with "trumpet" |
| 32% | BOAT | 4 | What can float that rhymes with "float" |
| 32% | LICE | 4 | Pests that can get into schoolkids' hair |
| 32% | FLEA | 4 | Tiny pest that may pester a dog |
| 32% | FALAFEL | 7 | Food rhyming with waffle but made with chickpeas |
| 32% | NOTIME | 6 | "Can't deal with that right now!" |
| 32% | RAIN | 4 | Weather that could ruin a parade |
| 32% | POTHOLE | 7 | Cavity that can ruin a tire |
| 31% | ISTHISLOVE | 10 | 1978 Bob Marley song that rhymes treat you right with every day and every night |
| 31% | RAIN | 4 | Precipitation that could ruin an outdoor concert |
| 31% | ANT | 3 | Tiny pest with six legs |
| 31% | LIE | 3 | That can't be right |
| 31% | ANTS | 4 | Six-legged pests that can spoil your picnic |