| 100% | TALL | 4 | Like someone who can reach the top shelf, perhaps |
| 80% | TALL | 4 | Like someone who can reach things on the top shelf |
| 50% | AGILER | 6 | Like someone who can trip the light fantastic, when compared to me |
| 45% | CLIMB | 5 | Go up, like someone trying to reach the top of a mountain |
| 44% | IMPATIENT | 9 | Like someone who can't wait |
| 43% | EAGER | 5 | Like someone who can't wait to start |
| 42% | BET | 3 | "I ___ you can't reach the top shelf" (challenging words) |
| 42% | STOOL | 5 | Aid for reaching the top shelf, maybe |
| 42% | STOOL | 5 | It's used to reach the top shelf |
| 41% | SEER | 4 | Someone who can predict the future |
| 41% | PROACTIVE | 9 | Like someone who takes the initiative |
| 40% | EMPATH | 6 | Someone who can understand the emotional states of others |
| 40% | NERDY | 5 | Like someone who reads the dictionary for fun, say |
| 39% | GOODSPORT | 9 | Someone who can accept being the butt of a joke |
| 39% | NOSY | 4 | Like someone who's angling for all the juicy details |
| 38% | SHY | 3 | Like someone who's unlikely to be the life of the party |
| 38% | COOK | 4 | Tim ___, CEO of Apple whose last name sounds like someone who can prepare a feast |
| 38% | YODA | 4 | Someone who speaks like the quote in 25-Across |
| 37% | AGELESS | 7 | Like someone who appears untouched by time, and like the answers to the starred clues? |
| 37% | NICEST | 6 | Like the top names on Santa's list, perhaps |
| 36% | UNSAID | 6 | Like words to the one who got away, perhaps |
| 36% | SEER | 4 | One who can predict the future, perhaps |
| 36% | EXTREMELYONLINE | 15 | Like someone who spends too much time on the internet, and like this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 36% | DREAMER | 7 | Someone who fantasizes a lot, like the title character of 15-/47-Across |
| 35% | EGOCENTRIC | 10 | Like someone who only has I's for you? ... or an apt description of the answers to starred clues |
| 34% | TALL | 4 | Like a person who can touch the ceiling without jumping |
| 33% | SCALE | 5 | Reach the top of |
| 33% | SAD | 3 | Like someone who texts ":-(" |
| 33% | SUMMITED | 8 | Reached the top of |
| 33% | CRESTS | 6 | Reaches the top of |