| 100% | APEN | 4 | Answer to "What is mightier than a sword?": 2 wds. |
| 73% | APEN | 4 | "___ is mightier than a sword.": 2 wds. |
| 55% | PEN | 3 | It is said to be mightier than a sword |
| 55% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be mightier than a sword |
| 54% | PEN | 3 | ___ is mightier than a sword |
| 53% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be mightier than a sword, in a proverb |
| 52% | PEN | 3 | It is mightier than a sword, proverbially |
| 52% | PEN | 3 | "A ___ is mightier than a sword" |
| 48% | NEWYORK | 7 | Find the answer to the metaphor mystery: "I am a city that never sleeps, a concrete jungle": 2 wds. |
| 47% | PEN | 3 | What's mightier than the sword, in a saying |
| 46% | PEN | 3 | What's said to be "mightier than the sword" |
| 46% | PEN | 3 | It is mightier than the sword, according to some |
| 46% | IDO | 3 | Answer to a question at the altar: 2 wds. |
| 45% | DRYOFF | 6 | What a bath towel is needed to do: 2 wds. |
| 44% | PITABREAD | 9 | What meat is wrapped in to make a gyro: 2 wds. |
| 42% | PEN | 3 | This is considered to be mightier than the sword |
| 42% | PEN | 3 | It is said to be mightier than the sword |
| 42% | PEN | 3 | It's said to be mightier than the sword |
| 42% | IDO | 3 | Answer to "Do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?," perhaps: 2 wds. |
| 42% | MEMORY | 6 | Answer to the riddle "I form in an instant and last a lifetime. What am I?" |
| 42% | UPTHEANTE | 9 | Increase what is at stake ... or a hint to answering 20-, 30- and 46-Across |
| 41% | RUBIES | 6 | What a virtuous woman is worth more than, according to Proverbs 31:10 |
| 41% | GRANDSLAMHOMERUN | 16 | What will cause a walk-off win in the situation described by the answers to the starred clues |
| 41% | GOTIN | 5 | Was accepted to a program: 2 wds. |
| 41% | LEADFOOT | 8 | What a speed-happy driver is said to have: 2 wds. |
| 41% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be poured from a keg: 2 wds. |
| 40% | NOTYET | 6 | Possible answer to "Are we there now?": 2 wds. |
| 40% | INHERE | 6 | Possible answer to ''Where are you?'' (2 wds) |
| 40% | PEN | 3 | It's mightier than a sword as per a proverb |
| 40% | ONTAP | 5 | Ready to be poured into a beer glass: 2 wds. |