| 100% | CIGAR | 5 | With 56-Down, refuse to be cleaned out from a poker game? |
| 35% | DARTS | 5 | Pub game with a board numbered from 1 to 20 |
| 35% | DISOWN | 6 | Refuse to be associated with |
| 34% | CLUE | 4 | Board game with a secret passageway from the conservatory to the lounge |
| 34% | DEAL | 4 | Pass out cards to start a poker game |
| 33% | WALKOFF | 7 | With 26-Down, dramatic end to a game |
| 33% | WASHABLE | 8 | OK to be cleaned in a Maytag |
| 33% | IBERIA | 6 | Airline with a hub in Madrid that will fly you direct from there to Washington, DC |
| 32% | REAMED | 6 | Cleaned out with a pipe cleaner |
| 32% | DIGIN | 5 | Refuse to budge from a position |
| 32% | REAMED | 6 | Cleaned out, as with a pipe cleaner |
| 32% | SLAG | 4 | Refuse to deal with at a foundry? |
| 32% | THEBEEGEES | 10 | Band with six consecutive #1 singles, from "How Deep Is Your Love" to "Love You Inside Out": 3 wds. |
| 32% | ROTOGRAVURE | 11 | Printing process using a cylinder with small recesses from which ink is transferred to paper in a rotary press |
| 31% | VETO | 4 | Refuse to endorse, as a bill from Congress |
| 31% | RESONATE | 8 | To be filled with a deep, reverberating sound |
| 31% | INERT | 5 | With 3-Down, those you're quite unlikely to get a reaction from? |
| 31% | BRAKE | 5 | With 4-Down, what may be cut to sabotage a car in movies |
| 31% | SORETHUMB | 9 | To be obvious is to stick out like a __ |
| 31% | EARWAX | 6 | Gunk cleaned out with a cotton swab |
| 31% | PEG | 3 | "He needs to be taken down a ___!" |
| 31% | NOID | 4 | Reason to be barred from a bar |
| 31% | RIPE | 4 | Ready to be picked from a tree |
| 31% | BEGOFF | 6 | Ask to be released from a party |
| 31% | FAKEID | 6 | Reason to be bounced from a club |
| 31% | DEALIN | 6 | Admit to a poker game |
| 31% | AIL | 3 | Be down with a bug |
| 31% | URANUS | 6 | First planet to be identified with a telescope |
| 30% | AIL | 3 | Be down with a cold, perhaps |
| 30% | AIL | 3 | Be down with a cold, maybe |