| 100% | HARDILY | 7 | With an ability to endure |
| 60% | AGILITY | 7 | The ability to move quickly and nimbly, as with an athlete |
| 57% | TOUGHSKIN | 9 | Ability to endure criticism |
| 55% | ENDUE | 5 | Provide with an ability |
| 54% | ENDUE | 5 | Provide, as with an ability |
| 52% | PAINTOLERANCE | 13 | Ability to deal with pricks? |
| 51% | RINGCRAFT | 9 | Boxer's skills, particularly an ability to move |
| 51% | ABEAR | 5 | To endure or put up with |
| 50% | TELEKINESIS | 11 | Ability to move objects with the mind |
| 50% | LOOKINGFORWARD | 14 | With an eye on things to come |
| 49% | OTIS | 4 | Inventor Elisha who was blessed with an ability for vertical thinking |
| 49% | WORLD | 5 | "The Secret ___ of Alex Mack," '90s Nickelodeon show about Alex trying to live an ordinary life with her powerful abilities |
| 49% | EIDETICMEMORY | 13 | Ability to vividly recall an image seen only once |
| 48% | HONE | 4 | Strengthen, as an ability (rhymes with "bone") |
| 48% | SPEECH | 6 | The ability to articulate thoughts with sound |
| 47% | SNOB | 4 | One with an upturned nose, so to speak |
| 47% | DENTIST | 7 | One with an opening to fill? |
| 47% | EDGE | 4 | To have an advantage, with "over" |
| 46% | ALI | 3 | Boxer with an allegiance to 16-Across |
| 46% | LEGAL | 5 | With 4-Down, payment to an attorney |
| 46% | INTHEBLINKOFANI | 15 | With surprising speed, to an egotist? |
| 46% | ATTACHMENT | 10 | Form an __ to; bond with |
| 46% | WRONG | 5 | Like a test answer with an "x" next to it |
| 46% | BILLMAHER | 9 | TV host once with an "Explaining Jokes to Idiots" segment |
| 46% | HALLMARK | 8 | TV channel with an annual "Countdown to Christmas" programming block |
| 46% | PSYCHIC | 7 | Someone with the ability to see the future |
| 45% | MAKEPEACE | 9 | To end an argument or disagreement with someone |
| 45% | FESS | 4 | Order to an imp, with "up" |
| 45% | ESCORTS | 7 | Goes with another to an event |
| 45% | GIT | 3 | An unpleasant person, to a Brit (rhymes with "fit") |