| 100% | EMIR | 4 | Title not actually used by U.A.E. rulers |
| 41% | CONSONANT | 9 | Not A, E, I, O or U |
| 40% | FIRSTLADY | 9 | Title held by the wife of a US president |
| 40% | ALERS | 5 | A and O, but not E, I or U |
| 40% | OAR | 3 | Tool used by most of a rowing team, but not the coxswain |
| 38% | ELEM | 4 | I, O or U, but not A or E: Abbr. |
| 38% | HAY | 3 | Kind of "fever" that's not actually a fever, and is typically caused by pollen |
| 38% | ATNO | 4 | Fig. for I, O or U, but not A or E |
| 37% | JERRYQUARRY | 11 | US fighter beaten by Jimmy Ellis in a 1968 vacant WBA Heavyweight title contest |
| 37% | SIR | 3 | Title for a man granted in the U.K. but not in the U.S. |
| 36% | KEYS | 4 | A and E, but not I, O or U |
| 36% | NOTE | 4 | A or E, but not I, O or U |
| 35% | QUARTERTO | 9 | With 16-Across, title time in a 1961 #1 hit by Gary U.S. Bonds |
| 35% | DIRTYRAT | 8 | Epithet never actually used by Jimmy Cagney |
| 34% | STAND | 5 | "___ by Me," 1986 adventure film starring Wil Wheaton, that took its title from a Ben E. King song |
| 34% | AGENTORANGE | 11 | Highly poisonous herbicide used as a spray for crop destruction by the US during the Vietnam War |
| 34% | RHYTHMS | 7 | Longest commonly used word with no a, e, i, o or u |
| 34% | SRA | 3 | Title not acquired by Miss Spain?: Abbr. |
| 33% | EER | 3 | Always used by a poet |
| 33% | GEL | 3 | Goop used by a hairstylist |
| 33% | ANVIL | 5 | Block used by a smithy |
| 33% | OAR | 3 | Blade used by a rower |
| 33% | AXE | 3 | Tool used by a lumberjack |
| 33% | STOPWATCH | 9 | Timepiece used by a timer |
| 33% | INK | 3 | Liquid used by a printer |
| 33% | LASSO | 5 | Rope used by a cowboy |
| 33% | SNARE | 5 | Device used by a trapper |
| 33% | AXE | 3 | Tool used by a firefighter |
| 33% | INK | 3 | Liquid used by a cartoonist |
| 33% | LOGO | 4 | Symbol used by a company |