| 100% | BUSY | 4 | Like 8-Across, in a saying |
| 73% | SKINDEEP | 8 | Like beauty, in a saying |
| 73% | SLOW | 4 | Like molasses, in a saying |
| 70% | AMERICAN | 8 | Like apple pie, in a saying |
| 67% | COOL | 4 | Like a cucumber, in a saying |
| 67% | PROUD | 5 | Like a peacock, in a saying |
| 67% | SOBER | 5 | Like a judge, in a saying |
| 67% | FIT | 3 | Like a fiddle, in a saying |
| 67% | NEAT | 4 | Like a pin, in a saying |
| 64% | HARDWON | 7 | Like a game ending in double overtime, say |
| 62% | HALFREAD | 8 | Like a book with a bookmark in the middle, say |
| 62% | ERRS | 4 | Mispells a word, say, like in this clue |
| 62% | ENDS | 4 | 65-Across justifiers, in a saying |
| 61% | POSTRACIAL | 10 | Like a society in which people are said to be colorblind |
| 60% | SPILT | 5 | Like milk in a "what's done is done" saying |
| 60% | EARLY | 5 | Like the worm-catcher, in a saying |
| 59% | CAMP | 4 | Sleep in a 36-Across, say |
| 59% | TAXI | 4 | Vehicle in a line at 8-Across |
| 59% | HORSESMOUTH | 11 | Authoritative source, in a saying |
| 59% | OUNCE | 5 | Prevention amount, in a saying |
| 59% | CAT | 3 | Curiosity victim, in a saying |
| 59% | CARRYABIGSTICK | 14 | Show authority, in a saying |
| 59% | HASTE | 5 | Waste maker, in a saying |
| 59% | HORSES | 6 | Things held, in a saying |
| 59% | AGE | 3 | Beauty preceder, in a saying |
| 59% | MULE | 4 | Stubborn beast, in a saying |
| 59% | SKY | 3 | The limit, in a saying |
| 59% | ERR | 3 | Behave humanly, in a saying |
| 59% | BIRDIE | 6 | Secret spiller, in a saying |
| 59% | OLDDOG | 6 | Unteachable sort, in a saying |