| 100% | GAM | 3 | Word defined as "a social meeting of two (or more) Whale-ships" in Moby-Dick |
| 39% | FLOSS | 5 | Dental directive, or (as two words) a feature of five answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | SLUR | 4 | In music, to perform smoothly a melodic phrase of two or more notes |
| 36% | CONAIR | 6 | Big maker of small appliances, or, as two words, a 1997 action film |
| 36% | EDIT | 4 | Put in a word or two, maybe more? |
| 36% | COMPOUNDS | 9 | Mixtures of two or more elements, in science |
| 36% | SLUR | 4 | In music, a performance of a melodic interval of two or more notes in a part |
| 36% | MASHUP | 6 | Blend of two or more things, such as Christmas and Hanukkah |
| 35% | MIX | 3 | Combine two or more ingredients in a bowl |
| 35% | LEAFS | 5 | As she ___ through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the handwriting |
| 35% | LAYER | 5 | One of two or three in a cake, perhaps |
| 35% | OBOE | 4 | One of two or three in a typical orchestra |
| 35% | SLUR | 4 | In music, a legato performance of a melodic interval of two or more notes in a part |
| 34% | COMPOUND | 8 | Word made up of two or more separate words |
| 34% | AUTOMATES | 9 | Streamlines, as a factory ... or, when read as two words, what the beginnings of the answers to starred clues are |
| 33% | IRONHORSE | 9 | One of two in a historic 1869 Utah meeting |
| 33% | PEQUOD | 6 | Whaling ship in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick |
| 32% | ACE | 3 | One of two in a poker hand known as "pocket rockets" |
| 32% | LANES | 5 | Word in the name of many a bowling alley |
| 32% | CASE | 4 | Word in the title of many a detective novel |
| 32% | QUODLIBET | 9 | Light piece of music based on two or more popular tunes such as Galimathias musicum by W A Mozart |
| 32% | ARLES | 5 | Word in the title of many a van Gogh painting |
| 32% | SERIES | 6 | When two or more games are played between the same teams in baseball it is called a ____ |
| 32% | CRUE | 4 | One of two words with an umlaut in a metal band's name |
| 31% | FLOTSAM | 7 | In maritime law, floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| 31% | BOXCARS | 7 | Parts of a train, or two sixes in craps |
| 31% | EBWHITE | 7 | Author whose last name's first letter, followed by the two initials that precede his last name, form a word in one of his most famous titles |
| 31% | IDO | 3 | Words said in front of a judge or a preacher: 2 wds. |
| 31% | ALONGSIDE | 9 | Next to a ship or the pier, as in docking |
| 31% | PLATOON | 7 | Unit of two or more squads |