| 100% | MORE | 4 | "There's ___ to it than meets the eye" |
| 77% | EYE | 3 | "There's more to it than meets the ___" |
| 65% | MORE | 4 | "There's ___ than meets the eye" |
| 57% | MORE | 4 | ___ than meets the eye |
| 51% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be mightier than the sword |
| 51% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be "mightier than the sword" |
| 51% | NSEC | 4 | It's faster than the blink of an eye: Abbr. |
| 49% | AIDA | 4 | It's been performed more than 1,000 times at the Met |
| 48% | OSTRICH | 7 | The eye of an __ is bigger than its brain |
| 47% | DESTINY | 7 | It's often met "on the road taken to avoid it," per Jean de la Fontaine |
| 47% | EDA | 3 | LeShan who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" |
| 47% | LESHAN | 6 | Eda who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" |
| 46% | SARI | 4 | There are more than 100 ways to drape it |
| 45% | PEN | 3 | It is mightier than the sword, according to some |
| 45% | PEN | 3 | It is said to be mightier than the sword |
| 45% | VIGNETTING | 10 | It draws the eye to center frame |
| 45% | HOME | 4 | There's no place like it ... or a word that can precede either half of the answer to each starred clue |
| 44% | IDOL | 4 | It's one-eyed, yellow and to the north of Kathmandu |
| 44% | BROW | 4 | Suffix with eye to mean the hairs above it |
| 43% | HURRICANE | 9 | There's calm in its eye |
| 43% | BEAUTY | 6 | It's said to be in the eye of the beholder |
| 43% | VEGETABLE | 9 | Food kids might give to the dog rather than eat it |
| 42% | NULLSET | 7 | There's nothing to it |
| 42% | CINCH | 5 | There's nothing to it |
| 42% | ZERO | 4 | There's nothing to it |
| 42% | CHILDSPLAY | 10 | There's nothing to it |
| 42% | MOTEL | 5 | It's there to stay |
| 42% | ONION | 5 | It may bring a tear to the eye |
| 42% | HOME | 4 | There's no place like it, to Dorothy |
| 42% | PEN | 3 | It's "mightier than the sword" |