| 100% | BALLFIELD | 9 | "It's a ___," said the party planner |
| 67% | SHOO | 4 | It's said with a wave of the hand |
| 67% | JEST | 4 | It's said with a poke in the ribs |
| 67% | ACHOO | 5 | It's said with a snap of the head |
| 67% | OUT | 3 | It's said with a thumb in the air |
| 67% | AGE | 3 | It's just a number, as the saying goes |
| 64% | CATER | 5 | Handle the fixin's for a party, say |
| 64% | SKY | 3 | It's the limit, in a saying |
| 61% | NUMBERSRACKET | 13 | "It's a ___," said the accountant |
| 60% | HOTPURSUIT | 10 | "It's a ___," said the salsa maker |
| 60% | HOGCALLING | 10 | "It's a ___," said the pig farmer |
| 60% | BOARDGAME | 9 | "It's a ___," said the sawmill operator |
| 60% | SPACECRAFT | 10 | "It's a ___," said the interior decorator |
| 60% | DAILYGRIND | 10 | "It's a ___," said the newspaper reporter |
| 60% | FAIRTRADE | 9 | "It's a ___," said the carnival barker |
| 59% | LAW | 3 | It's said to have a long arm, with "the" |
| 59% | DRYEYE | 6 | It's said that there is not a single one of these "in the house" during a sad movie |
| 59% | FUNNYBUSINESS | 13 | "It's a ___," said the comic strip artist |
| 58% | DJED | 4 | Handled the tunes at a party, say |
| 58% | CAKE | 4 | It's a party favorite |
| 56% | THELITTLETHINGS | 15 | They're what really count, so it's said ... or a hint to the multilingual answers to the starred clues |
| 56% | BERRA | 5 | Yankee Yogi who's credited with saying "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" |
| 56% | PATIENCE | 8 | It's a virtue, so they say |
| 56% | THREE | 5 | It's a crowd, so they say |
| 56% | BAM | 3 | It's a hit in the comics |
| 56% | ISLE | 4 | It's a dot in the sea |
| 56% | KABOOM | 6 | It's a blast in the comics |
| 55% | SHAZAM | 6 | It may be said with the wave of a hand |
| 55% | LATEARRIVAL | 11 | Guest who missed the surprise of a surprise party, say |
| 55% | FRESHBREEZE | 11 | It’s a 5 on the Beaufort scale |