| 100% | UPROOTED | 8 | Like a tree that has been lifted out of the ground |
| 53% | TEE | 3 | Item that might be knocked out of the ground with a golf shot |
| 48% | SPROUTING | 9 | Popping out of the ground, like a plant |
| 48% | SPROUT | 6 | Pop out of the ground like a plant |
| 48% | ONLOAN | 6 | Like a book that has been checked out from a library: 2 wds. |
| 48% | SPROUT | 6 | Spring up out of the ground, like a plant |
| 47% | OFF | 3 | Like a faucet that has been turned all the way clockwise, say |
| 47% | UPROOT | 6 | Pull out of the ground, as a plant or tree |
| 46% | PALM | 4 | A tree that sounds like a part of the hand |
| 45% | BACKORDERED | 11 | Like goods that are temporarily out of stock ... or a hint, alphabetically, to the answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | YEW | 3 | Tree that sounds like a letter of the alphabet |
| 45% | COLD | 4 | Like food that has been laying out for a while |
| 44% | YEWS | 4 | Coniferous trees that sound like a letter of the alphabet |
| 43% | OAK | 3 | Tree that is the title and subject of a Katharine Towers poetry book |
| 42% | ITALIC | 6 | Like a font that has been tilted |
| 42% | YEW | 3 | Tree that was the source of the poison in Christie's A Pocket Full of Rye |
| 41% | LAMB | 4 | Animal that the month of March is said to "go out like" |
| 41% | UPROOTS | 7 | Pulls out of the ground, as a weed |
| 41% | TAN | 3 | Color of skin that has been in the sun for a long time |
| 39% | ARIL | 4 | Technical name for that part of a nutmeg seed that is ground into the spice mace |
| 39% | ICEBOX | 6 | "I have eaten the plums that were in the ___" (start of a William Carlos Williams poem) |
| 39% | ELMTREE | 7 | A tree that is the state symbol for Massachusetts: 2 wds. |
| 39% | FRAGILE | 7 | *Found on a package: Label indicating that the object is prone to breakage, like that made of 5d |
| 38% | ELMS | 4 | Trees that are a symbol of Massachusetts |
| 38% | OHIO | 4 | State that has been the birthplace of seven US presidents |
| 38% | BEAUTYCONTESTS | 14 | Competitions that have been the targets of some feminist protests |
| 38% | ALTERNATIVE | 11 | ___ rock, style of music that was popularized in the 90s and has sub-genres like emo and post-grunge |
| 38% | DOWN | 4 | System of a ___, Armenian-American heavy metal band that was formed in California which had the hit song "Hypnotize" |
| 38% | YEW | 3 | Tree that sounds like one of the vowels |
| 38% | AVOIDABLE | 9 | Like a situation that could have been prevented |