| 100% | PEA | 3 | Vegetable that's hard to spear with a fork |
| 80% | PEA | 3 | Small vegetable that's hard to stab with a fork |
| 71% | PEA | 3 | Veggie that's hard to eat with a fork |
| 71% | PEA | 3 | Legume that's hard to eat with a fork |
| 71% | PEA | 3 | Vegetable that's hard to eat with a knife |
| 49% | PEAS | 4 | Challenging vegetables to eat with a fork |
| 46% | ONION | 5 | Vegetable that's similar to a leek |
| 46% | YAM | 3 | Vegetable that's often confused with a sweet potato |
| 46% | YAM | 3 | Vegetable that's similar to a sweet potato |
| 45% | CORN | 4 | Vegetable that's combined with lima beans to make succotash |
| 45% | EASY | 4 | A street that's hard to find |
| 44% | TANGLY | 6 | Like hair that's hard to get a comb through |
| 43% | MONTH | 5 | Unit of time that's hard to rhyme with |
| 42% | DEEPWEB | 7 | Content that's hard for a search engine to access |
| 42% | STEEP | 5 | Like a mountain that's hard to climb |
| 42% | RARE | 4 | Like a gem that's hard to find |
| 42% | CRYPTIC | 7 | Like a message that's hard to understand |
| 42% | EERIE | 5 | Like a coincidence that's hard to explain |
| 41% | CREAKY | 6 | Like a floor that's hard to tiptoe on |
| 41% | LIAR | 4 | One with a forked tongue, so to speak |
| 41% | SPOON | 5 | Utensil combined with a fork to make a "spork" |
| 41% | PISA | 4 | Spot with a landmark that's inclined to impress |
| 41% | PEAS | 4 | Items hard to eat with a knife |
| 40% | NONO | 4 | Eating pizza with a fork and knife, to New Yorkers |
| 40% | ETCH | 4 | To engrave with a technique that uses acid |
| 40% | SRO | 3 | Like a show that's hard to get tickets for, in brief |
| 40% | KOALABEAR | 9 | Nonprimate with fingerprints that are nearly identical to a human's |
| 40% | BAD | 3 | With 38-Across, hex that's hard to shake |
| 40% | TEATREE | 7 | Shrub with a fragrant oil that’s toxic to ingest |
| 40% | PEAS | 4 | Vegetables that make a fitting addition to alphabet soup? |