| 100% | HYPHENATE | 9 | Add a dash to join two words |
| 59% | HYPHEN | 6 | A dash used to join or divide words |
| 51% | SEASON | 6 | Add a dash of lime to? |
| 46% | UNDERGOD | 8 | Two words added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 |
| 45% | SOLD | 4 | Word added to a Realtor's sign |
| 44% | FLAVORTEXT | 10 | Words that add depth to a video game character |
| 44% | SOLD | 4 | Word added to a successful Realtor's yard sign |
| 44% | INBED | 5 | Two words often added to Chinese fortune cookie fortunes for added laughs: 2 wds. |
| 44% | ABLE | 4 | Add a B to 48-Across, and you'll be ___ to get this word! |
| 43% | GOD | 3 | One of two words added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 |
| 43% | VIS | 3 | Word added to either side of "-a-" when making a comparison |
| 42% | SUFFIX | 6 | Ending added to a word, e.g. -tion, -ing |
| 42% | SUFFIX | 6 | Letters added to a word's end, opposite of prefix |
| 42% | SUFFIX | 6 | Morpheme added to the end of a word, like "itis" |
| 41% | HOPIN | 5 | Two-word phrase to a hitchhiker |
| 41% | EDIT | 4 | Add a dash, perhaps |
| 41% | HERE | 4 | Word that becomes its opposite when a "T" is added to the beginning |
| 41% | SEVEN | 5 | What two opposite faces on a standard die add up to |
| 41% | NIGHTY | 6 | First of two nearly identical words to a tucked-in tot |
| 41% | HENDIADYS | 9 | Grammatical structure where two words connected by a conjunction are used to express a single notion |
| 41% | INBED | 5 | Words sometimes added to the end of a fortune cookie fortune for humorous effect |
| 41% | HORCHATA | 8 | Word for a cold, sweet drink that was added to Merriam-Webster in 2021 |
| 41% | SUPER | 5 | Word that's its own synonym when a "b" is added to the end |
| 40% | TENANTS | 7 | Ones paying flat rates ... or, when read as two words, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 40% | HYPHEN | 6 | Punctuation joining two words |
| 40% | DIE | 3 | Word pluralized by adding a c between its final two letters |
| 40% | FIREANDRAIN | 11 | James Taylor classic ... or, respectively, what can precede the two words in each answer to a starred clue |
| 39% | IRE | 3 | Word for "anger" that becomes a country's name when "land" is added to the end |
| 39% | AIRFRYER | 8 | Word for a small kitchen appliance that was added to Merriam-Webster in 2021 (2 wds.) |
| 39% | BITCOIN | 7 | Most popular cryptocurrency, and a word added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2016 |