| 100% | ISOLATION | 9 | To be separated from everyone else is to be in __ |
| 55% | PAR | 3 | "He is on ___ with everyone else in the team." (equal to) |
| 47% | CLINGY | 6 | Finding it hard to separate from someone else |
| 46% | ABSIT | 5 | Formal permission to be away from school, in Britain |
| 46% | ABSIT | 5 | Formal permission to be away from university, in Britain |
| 46% | ACCURATE | 8 | Free from mistakes, able to be __ in reporting |
| 45% | PRIMEDIRECTIVE | 14 | Guiding principle to be followed above all else, in “Star Trek” |
| 45% | BAIL | 4 | Money that's paid in order to be released from jail |
| 44% | EUBOEA | 6 | Greek island believed to have been separated from the mainland by an earthquake |
| 44% | WHEY | 4 | Watery liquid that separates from the curd when milk is clotted in cheesemaking |
| 44% | ATTILA | 6 | Hun from whom Dracula claims to be descended, in Bram Stoker's "Dracula" |
| 44% | ACT | 3 | Pretend to be someone else, as in a movie |
| 44% | ACTS | 4 | Pretends to be someone else, as in a movie |
| 43% | RAM | 3 | NFL player whose team is moving from St. Louis to Los Angeles in 2016 |
| 43% | HONDAACCORD | 11 | First car from a Japanese manufacturer to be made in the U.S. (1982) |
| 43% | ELI | 3 | Actor Wallach who was in movies from 1956 to 2010 |
| 42% | WORKLOAD | 8 | How busy you are in your job from day to day |
| 42% | ALLERGY | 7 | Sneezing in the spring is from an __ to pollen |
| 42% | SPYFALL | 7 | Game in which one player tries to glean information from the other players without being caught |
| 42% | STAIRCAR | 8 | Vehicle that was repurposed from private-jet boarding to everyday transport, in “Arrested Development” |
| 42% | CERES | 5 | It was upgraded from an asteroid to a dwarf planet in 2006 |
| 42% | SON | 3 | Word whose letters are aptly found from left to right in "scion" |
| 41% | NOBAIL | 6 | Like a policy in which arrested suspects can be released from jail without needing to post payment |
| 41% | WHATHO | 6 | Bertie Wooster expression thought to be derived in part from Beowulf’s “hwæt” |
| 41% | CHAFF | 5 | What to separate the wheat from, in a saying |
| 40% | SAMBAS | 6 | Dances from Brazil that were added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2005 |
| 40% | NIPS | 4 | Nabisco treats that were recalled in 2019 due to possible contamination from a dough scraper |
| 40% | ELAL | 4 | Its inaugural flight, in 1948, was from Geneva to Tel Aviv |
| 39% | RYE | 3 | Bread made from this grain is higher in fiber and flavor as compared to white bread |
| 39% | REDSKELTON | 10 | Comedian who got an Honorary Doctorate (said to be in "Foolology") from Ball State: 2 wds. |