| 100% | ONTAP | 5 | Like some suds in the saloon |
| 59% | NATO | 4 | Like some forces in the Balkans |
| 59% | ONEACRE | 7 | Like some zoning in the suburbs |
| 59% | HESSIAN | 7 | Like some soldiers in the American Revolution |
| 59% | MAYAN | 5 | Like some ruins in the Western Hemisphere |
| 59% | NORSE | 5 | Like some gods in the Marvel Universe |
| 58% | FAXED | 5 | Like some documents in the pre-internet age |
| 57% | ABANDONED | 9 | Like some buildings in the squalid part of town |
| 55% | ICED | 4 | Like some coffee served in the summer |
| 55% | ICY | 3 | Like some stares ... or stairs in the winter |
| 54% | BOXED | 5 | Like some wine, as shown in the circled letters |
| 54% | VAMPIRIC | 8 | Like some "What We Do in the Shadows" characters |
| 54% | ICED | 4 | Like some coffee that's drunk in the summer |
| 54% | ORAL | 4 | Inserted in the mouth, like some thermometers |
| 53% | ONLOAN | 6 | Like the art in some exhibits |
| 52% | STAINED | 7 | Like the glass in some church windows |
| 52% | GASLIT | 6 | Like the streets in some period pieces |
| 51% | GLUED | 5 | Like the cutouts in some children's artwork |
| 51% | TWOROW | 6 | Like the arrangement of gems in some bracelets |
| 51% | TBA | 3 | Like the teams in some broadcast listings: Abbr. |
| 51% | ELFIN | 5 | Like some characters in "The Hobbit" |
| 51% | WARM | 4 | Like some welcomes, or change a letter in 39a to get the answer |
| 51% | PUMPKINHEADED | 13 | Like the horseman haunting Ichabod Crane, in some depictions |
| 51% | TINY | 4 | Like the desk in some intimate NPR music performances |
| 50% | BITESIZE | 8 | Small enough to fit in the mouth, like some candy bars: Hyph. |
| 48% | ONEEYED | 7 | Like a cyclops or some of the Minions in "Despicable Me": Hyph. |
| 48% | YEARONYEAR | 10 | Like some annual accounting comparisons, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 46% | FOAM | 4 | Head in the saloon |
| 44% | VELAR | 5 | Like some consonants, in phonetics |
| 44% | RETITLED | 8 | Like some shows in syndication |