| 100% | FIT | 3 | Be neither too baggy nor too tight, in terms of clothes |
| 89% | FIT | 3 | Be neither too loose nor too tight, in terms of clothes |
| 46% | CLOY | 4 | Being too sweet in terms of affection towards a person |
| 46% | NEUTER | 6 | Neither masculine nor feminine, in terms of grammar |
| 36% | RIPE | 4 | Ready to be eaten, in terms of produce |
| 35% | PRESENTPERFECTTENSE | 19 | What “have solved” is in, in terms of grammar |
| 35% | COST | 4 | What something will amount to, in terms of money |
| 35% | PAR | 3 | "Batman is at ___ with Green Arrow in terms of intelligence" |
| 33% | AGE | 3 | Donald Trump was indeed the greatest president in terms of this on Inauguration Day |
| 32% | AGE | 3 | Whoever wins the November election will break some records in terms of this on inauguration day |
| 32% | ENEMIES | 7 | "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his ___": Wilde |
| 31% | WILDE | 5 | He wrote "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies" |
| 31% | MAMA | 4 | Owner of the bed that was too soft in "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" |
| 31% | ASTO | 4 | In terms of |
| 31% | TWOPEASINAPOD | 13 | Similar people ... who are getting a little too close in six squares of this puzzle? |
| 31% | OLDNAVY | 7 | Chain of clothing stores that was named after a bar in Paris, surprisingly: 2 wds. |
| 30% | BRAZIL | 6 | South American country which is the most forested country in terms of actual forest area covered by forest at 56.1% |
| 29% | STYLIST | 7 | Person in charge of clothes |
| 29% | AGE | 3 | Progress in terms of years |
| 29% | OLD | 3 | Advanced in terms of years |
| 29% | VETO | 4 | Overrule, in terms of legislation |
| 29% | RAINY | 5 | Wet, in terms of weather |
| 29% | DIGRAPHS | 8 | Ligatures, in terms of printing |
| 29% | GOBELOW | 7 | Undercut, in terms of price |
| 29% | NEW | 3 | Fresh, in terms of paint |
| 29% | PINCH | 5 | Be too tight |
| 29% | MARTINSCORSESE | 14 | New Hollywood director who won an Oscar for "The Departed," and is the most-nominated director alive in terms of Oscars: 2 wds. |
| 29% | EDGE | 4 | Get too close to the ___ (be in danger of falling) |
| 29% | SOUR | 4 | Mouth-puckering, in terms of taste |
| 29% | AGE | 3 | Your lifetime, in terms of years |