| 100% | TWIRLY | 6 | Fun to spin around in, as a skirt or a dress |
| 48% | NAVIGABLE | 9 | Easy to get around in, as a website |
| 44% | SLIT | 4 | Narrow cut in a dress or skirt |
| 44% | DANCEAROUND | 11 | Skirt, as an issue ... or a hint to the puzzle's circles |
| 44% | ALTER | 5 | Take in or let out, as a dress |
| 43% | RUFFLE | 6 | Flounce in a skirt, or to disturb a tot's hair |
| 43% | STARRED | 7 | To have appeared as the lead in a movie or play |
| 43% | ADOPT | 5 | To legally take in a child or pet as one's own |
| 43% | ALONGSIDE | 9 | Next to a ship or the pier, as in docking |
| 42% | ZIP | 3 | Close, as a jacket or a dress |
| 42% | INTHECROSSHAIRS | 15 | Fixed as a target ... or a hint to four pairs of intersecting answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | ADOPT | 5 | Take in, as a pet or a child |
| 40% | ALTERED | 7 | Modify something such as to change the size, shape or style of a dress (past) |
| 40% | REVOLVES | 8 | Spins around in a circle |
| 39% | SLUR | 4 | In music, a curved line indicating that a melody is to be played legato or as a single phrase |
| 39% | TEND | 4 | See to, as a bar or a garden |
| 39% | LENDINGOUT | 10 | Allowing use of, as a library does ... or, in three parts, a hint to four puzzle answers |
| 39% | LEAFS | 5 | As she ___ through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the handwriting |
| 39% | PARAPHRASES | 11 | Puts in other words, or, if read as three pieces, a hint to the starred answers |
| 38% | HAHA | 4 | Wall or fence set in a ditch so as not to interrupt the landscape |
| 38% | DOUBLEBOOK | 10 | Reserve twice in error, as an airline seat ... or a hint to the two-part answers to starred clues |
| 38% | COSPLAY | 7 | Dress up as a movie or cartoon character |
| 38% | APPLYFOR | 8 | Try to get, as a grant or a job (2 wds.) |
| 38% | ADVANCED | 8 | To be experienced in a specific field or skill |
| 38% | ASTARISBORN | 11 | Thrice-remade movie … or, when parsed as six words, a hint to the theme clues in this puzzle |
| 38% | RODEUP | 6 | Shifted, in a way, as a skirt |
| 38% | WEAR | 4 | Have on, as a dress or trousers |
| 38% | PLEAT | 5 | Deliberate fold in a skirt or kilt |
| 38% | SPA | 3 | Place to lounge around in a bathrobe |
| 37% | TWIRL | 5 | Spin around lightly like a girl showing off her dress |