| 100% | LAH | 3 | Used to refer a boring thing: b___ |
| 96% | LAH | 3 | Expression used to refer a boring thing: b___ |
| 58% | NATURE | 6 | Mother ___, phrase used to refer to a force that controls all living things |
| 53% | BLAH | 4 | Used to refer to unexciting thing |
| 53% | SHE | 3 | Used to refer to a lady |
| 51% | SHE | 3 | Word used to refer to a female |
| 50% | CHICKEN | 7 | Type of bird used to refer to a coward |
| 50% | BEAR | 4 | Mama ___, phrase used to refer to a protective mother |
| 50% | COUCH | 5 | ___ potato, phrase used to refer to a lazy person |
| 50% | HEAD | 4 | Potato-___, phrase used to refer to a thoughtless person |
| 48% | OARS | 4 | Things used to paddle a boat |
| 48% | OARS | 4 | Things used to paddle a canoe |
| 48% | HOT | 3 | ___ potato, phrase used to refer to a complicated or problematic situation |
| 48% | MOUSE | 5 | ___ potato, phrase used to refer to someone glued to a computer screen |
| 48% | FOX | 3 | *Silver ___, informal phrase used to refer to a handsome, grey-haired man |
| 47% | BOOKMARK | 8 | Thing used to mark a spot in a novel |
| 46% | STIR | 4 | Use a spoon to mix things together |
| 46% | VIOLET | 6 | "A shrinking ___," idiom used to refer to a shy, modest person |
| 46% | BUSY | 4 | Word with 11a, which may be used to refer to someone with a packed schedule |
| 46% | OIL | 3 | A liquid used to fry things |
| 44% | POST | 4 | First past the ___, British horse racing term that's commonly used to refer to a voting system |
| 44% | AUTONYM | 7 | Word a group uses to refer it itself |
| 44% | LEVIOSA | 7 | A spell used to make things float, wingardium __ |
| 44% | NOUN | 4 | Word that refers to a person, place, animal, thing |
| 42% | TELESCOPE | 9 | Galileo used this to see things in a whole new way |
| 42% | FLAG | 4 | Word with "ship" to refer to the best or most important thing owned by a company |
| 41% | ALL | 3 | Used to refer to whole quantity |
| 41% | EXES | 4 | They used to be a "thing" |
| 41% | DEARJOHNLETTERS | 15 | Things used for dumping ... or a literal hint to the answers to the starred clues? |
| 41% | ALCOHOL | 7 | Word that refers to a liquid used in cocktails, which originated from Latin |