| 100% | MURPHYBED | 9 | Wall unit starting with an "SNL" alum |
| 64% | CRYSTALBALL | 11 | Seer's prop starting with an "SNL" alum |
| 50% | ROLLINGROCK | 11 | Beer brand ending with an "SNL" alum |
| 50% | FORTMYERS | 9 | Florida city ending with an "SNL" alum |
| 44% | EYEEXAM | 7 | This starts with an E |
| 43% | TICTACTOETACTIC | 15 | Starting with an X in the corner, say? |
| 43% | TEL | 3 | No. starting with an area code |
| 43% | TWEETS | 6 | Messages that might start with an "@" |
| 43% | HORSEPOWER | 10 | Unit of power for engines that starts with an equestrian animal |
| 42% | ELAL | 4 | Airline whose name starts with an aleph |
| 42% | XENON | 5 | Only element that starts with an "X" |
| 42% | ALLAH | 5 | Word spelled starting with an alif in Arabic |
| 42% | HINT | 4 | "It starts with an H," for this answer |
| 42% | IWON | 4 | Words that don't start with an L? |
| 41% | JADE | 4 | Gemstone that starts with an 8-point Scrabble letter |
| 41% | XENON | 5 | Only chemical element whose name starts with an x |
| 41% | JOULE | 5 | Physicist with an eponymous unit |
| 40% | XENON | 5 | Chemical element that starts with an 8-point Scrabble letter |
| 40% | MINK | 4 | ___ DeVille (early punk band whose name starts with an animal) |
| 40% | NOSURPRISE | 10 | 2009 Daughtry song whose title starts with an "answer": 2 wds. |
| 39% | MAYBEIMAMAZED | 13 | 1970 Paul McCartney song whose title starts with an "answer": 3 wds. |
| 39% | WATT | 4 | James with an electrical unit named after him |
| 39% | ARSON | 5 | What starts with a spark of an idea? |
| 38% | BLT | 3 | Sandwich name whose equivalent in The Princess Bride starts with an M (for mutton) |
| 37% | HAND | 4 | Part with an "hour," "minutes" and "seconds" unit in 16a |
| 37% | ANA | 3 | What an anaconda starts out with |
| 37% | SAM | 3 | Singer Smith with an Oscar for "Writing's on the Wall" |
| 37% | JAWS | 4 | Movie with an iconic theme that starts with two alternating notes |
| 36% | HANDSOME | 8 | Adjective for a good-looking man, or word that starts with an often-gloved body part |
| 36% | IMBEINGFRAMED | 13 | Start of an artist's argument with a gallery owner? |