| 100% | SCALDED | 7 | Like milk that's been heated to just under the boiling point |
| 49% | PIPINGHOT | 9 | Food that's been heated to the point of sizzling |
| 39% | SCALD | 5 | Heat to just below boiling, as milk |
| 38% | SCALDS | 6 | Heats to just below a boil, as milk |
| 37% | SCALD | 5 | Heat to the boiling point |
| 36% | SCALD | 5 | Heat almost to the point of boiling |
| 35% | DEEPEST | 7 | Like the secrets that are the hardest to share |
| 35% | ORAL | 4 | Like a contract that's said to be "not worth the paper it's written on" |
| 34% | BEAGLE | 6 | Island in the Antarctic's Danger Islands that is appropriately just to north east of Darwin Island |
| 34% | EATEN | 5 | Like the plums in the poem "This Is Just To Say" |
| 34% | BEHINDBLUEEYES | 14 | 1971 hit from the Who that begins "No one knows what it's like to be the bad man" |
| 33% | SOGGY | 5 | Like cereal that's been in milk for a while |
| 33% | UNSET | 5 | Like concrete that’s just been poured |
| 33% | WET | 3 | Like paint that's just been applied |
| 33% | STATUSQUO | 9 | That's just the way it is |
| 33% | ONSIMMER | 8 | Just below the boiling point |
| 32% | SCALD | 5 | To heat milk near its boiling point |
| 32% | TAXED | 5 | Like income that's reported to the IRS, usually |
| 32% | TAN | 3 | Spray ___ (product that can make you look like you've been to the beach) |
| 32% | ROAN | 4 | Horse color, the same as leather that is often treated to look like reddish |
| 32% | ONTAP | 5 | Like beer that's ready to be served: 2 wds. |
| 32% | NUB | 3 | Pencil that's been used nearly to the eraser |
| 32% | SPILT | 5 | Like milk that shouldn't be cried over |
| 32% | NEMO | 4 | Point ___, spot that is the oceanic pole of inaccessibility and the most difficult to reach from land |
| 32% | SCALD | 5 | Heat to just short of boiling |
| 31% | BREASTSTROKE | 12 | Swimming style that's believed to be the oldest |
| 31% | INARAGE | 7 | Heated to a boiling point? |
| 31% | BACKORDERED | 11 | Like goods that are temporarily out of stock ... or a hint, alphabetically, to the answers to the starred clues |
| 31% | OHIO | 4 | State that's said to be "high in the middle" |
| 31% | PAWN | 4 | Chess piece that's often the first to be played |