| 100% | TOTASTE | 7 | How salt and pepper may be added, in a recipe |
| 49% | SALT | 4 | It may be added in a dash |
| 43% | ONTOAST | 7 | How tuna may be served in a diner |
| 43% | ONRYE | 5 | How ham may be served in a sandwich |
| 43% | TIGHTLY | 7 | How hands might be held in a crowd |
| 43% | EPSOM | 5 | Salt that may be used in a sitz bath |
| 40% | TSP | 3 | Amount that might be "heaping" in a recipe: Abbr. |
| 40% | DIT | 3 | How a dot may be vocalized in Morse code |
| 39% | HOTANDCOLD | 10 | How emotions may blow, and a hint to the switches in the theme answers |
| 38% | DASHOFPEPPER | 12 | It may be called for in a recipe |
| 38% | OAT | 3 | Grain that can be added in a smoothie |
| 38% | SANDANDDIRT | 11 | Salt and pepper, to a GI |
| 38% | MIME | 4 | Artist who doesn't speak and who might be "trapped in a box" |
| 37% | THERESAMAY | 10 | With 39 and 56 Across, how a Tory and a pundit might differ in decisiveness |
| 37% | DOM | 3 | I may be made of brick, stone, or wood, and usually lack a front door. Who am I in Poland? |
| 37% | CRUET | 5 | Salt and pepper container used at a dining table |
| 37% | ASASET | 6 | How sheets and duvets may be sold |
| 37% | INANET | 6 | How fish and butterflies may be caught |
| 37% | PARADISELOST | 12 | John Milton epic, and a hint to how four long answers in this puzzle were formed |
| 36% | APARTMENT | 9 | Flat in a residential complex that might be a creative person's abode, and a word with 16a hidden in it |
| 36% | SEASON | 6 | Add salt and pepper to food |
| 36% | TAKINGNOTES | 11 | Creating study aids during a classroom lecture, and how seven long answers in this puzzle were created? |
| 36% | BALL | 4 | Playful paper projects! Round object that may be created by crumpling tinfoil, and used by kids in a make-do throwball game |
| 36% | SUBTLY | 6 | How a clever and sneaky hint might be delivered |
| 36% | DOWNUNDER | 9 | Nickname for 18-Across, and a hint to how four answers in this puzzle are to be entered |
| 36% | LIME | 4 | It might be added with a twist |
| 36% | HOP | 3 | It may be taken in a shuttle |
| 36% | PLEA | 4 | It may be entered in a court |
| 36% | ELEMENT | 7 | It may be found in a table |
| 36% | ARMREST | 7 | It may be worn in a chair |