| 100% | CREAM | 5 | Whip ... or something that can be whipped |
| 77% | LASH | 4 | Strike ... or something that can be batted |
| 76% | ORGAN | 5 | Church instrument or something that can be donated |
| 76% | OATH | 4 | Swear word ... or something that can be sworn |
| 75% | ANGLE | 5 | Something that can be acute or obtuse |
| 75% | CASE | 4 | Something that can be tried or cracked |
| 75% | BAR | 3 | Something that can be raised or passed |
| 73% | ONION | 5 | Something that can be red or white, but not blue |
| 71% | BUZZ | 4 | Excitement or interest in something that can be created through advertising |
| 69% | BLADE | 5 | Cutting edge of a box cutter or razor, and something that can be sharpened |
| 66% | PAPERTIGER | 10 | Toothless adversary (or something that can be made in 39-Down) |
| 64% | SLAG | 4 | Something left over from the Bessemer process that could be used in fertilizer or as a cement additive |
| 64% | CURABLE | 7 | Something that can be healed |
| 64% | SEED | 4 | Something that can be sown |
| 64% | HABIT | 5 | Something that can be kicked |
| 64% | LOT | 3 | Something that can be drawn |
| 64% | TALE | 4 | Something that can be spun |
| 64% | GENE | 4 | Something that can be "dominant" |
| 63% | EDIBLE | 6 | Something that can be eaten, food |
| 63% | DEBT | 4 | Something that can be racked up |
| 63% | LIE | 3 | Something that could be proven false |
| 62% | ICON | 4 | Something that can be dragged and dropped |
| 62% | ARIA | 4 | Something that can be performed da capo |
| 62% | PIANO | 5 | Something that can be played low-key? |
| 62% | SOLUBLE | 7 | Something that can be dissolved in liquid is __ |
| 62% | SCENE | 5 | Something that can be stolen in a movie |
| 62% | AREA | 4 | Something that can be calculated with an integral |
| 61% | MAIL | 4 | Something that can be "dead" that was never alive |
| 61% | SEALABLE | 8 | Like something that can be closed tight |
| 60% | HANDFUL | 7 | The amount of something that can be held |