| 100% | RISING | 6 | Ascendant, like four words in this puzzle |
| 65% | ADO | 3 | Word hidden four times in this puzzle |
| 64% | REDEFINED | 9 | Like nine words in this puzzle, or what their first letters spell out |
| 60% | PUNCH | 5 | Word that completes four phrases in this puzzle |
| 59% | EVEN | 4 | Like each answer in this puzzle - also each word in each clue - in length |
| 59% | HAUNTED | 7 | Full of ghosts ... like four answers in this puzzle? |
| 57% | TRAPPED | 7 | Confined, like five letters in this puzzle that spell an apt word |
| 57% | TAKESTOTHEAIR | 13 | Starts traveling like seven key words in this puzzle |
| 56% | FLIPFLOPPED | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 56% | MOVEDAROUND | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 56% | OUTOFORDER | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 56% | REARRANGED | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 54% | ENG | 3 | Language of the words in this puzzle: Abbr. |
| 54% | SHADESOFPINK | 12 | What seven key words in this puzzle are |
| 54% | NOGO | 4 | Canceled, like a mission ... or like four answers in this puzzle? |
| 53% | DOLLAR | 6 | Source of all the tender words in this puzzle? |
| 53% | STPATRICKSDAY | 13 | Observance associated with eight key words in this puzzle |
| 53% | ACROSS | 6 | Direction of about half the words in this puzzle |
| 53% | GOESUPANDDOWN | 13 | What each group of circled words in this puzzle does |
| 53% | TEN | 3 | Number of one-voweled, seven-letter words in this puzzle |
| 53% | USS | 3 | Abbr. that can precede nine key words in this puzzle |
| 53% | IRATE | 5 | What nine key words in this puzzle are synonyms of |
| 53% | UNDERTHEHOOD | 12 | Where nine key words in this puzzle can be found |
| 53% | ACME | 4 | Synonym for the first word in this puzzle's title |
| 53% | NOTUPTOPAR | 10 | Like the duffer in this puzzle? |
| 52% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter "C" |
| 52% | ELBA | 4 | Island whose name is another word in this puzzle spelled backward |
| 52% | CROSS | 5 | What words do in a puzzle like this one |
| 52% | BROKENBONES | 11 | Injuries illustrated four times in this puzzle |
| 52% | APPLE | 5 | Fruit found four times in this puzzle |