| 100% | PUMPKINHEADED | 13 | Like the horseman haunting Ichabod Crane, in some depictions |
| 40% | ONLOAN | 6 | Like the art in some exhibits |
| 39% | STAINED | 7 | Like the glass in some church windows |
| 39% | GASLIT | 6 | Like the streets in some period pieces |
| 39% | GLUED | 5 | Like the cutouts in some children's artwork |
| 39% | TWOROW | 6 | Like the arrangement of gems in some bracelets |
| 39% | TBA | 3 | Like the teams in some broadcast listings: Abbr. |
| 38% | TINY | 4 | Like the desk in some intimate NPR music performances |
| 38% | NATO | 4 | Like some forces in the Balkans |
| 38% | ONEACRE | 7 | Like some zoning in the suburbs |
| 38% | ONTAP | 5 | Like some suds in the saloon |
| 37% | HESSIAN | 7 | Like some soldiers in the American Revolution |
| 37% | MAYAN | 5 | Like some ruins in the Western Hemisphere |
| 37% | ICED | 4 | Like some coffee served in the summer |
| 37% | NORSE | 5 | Like some gods in the Marvel Universe |
| 37% | ICY | 3 | Like some stares ... or stairs in the winter |
| 37% | FAXED | 5 | Like some documents in the pre-internet age |
| 36% | ABANDONED | 9 | Like some buildings in the squalid part of town |
| 36% | BOXED | 5 | Like some wine, as shown in the circled letters |
| 36% | VAMPIRIC | 8 | Like some "What We Do in the Shadows" characters |
| 36% | ICED | 4 | Like some coffee that's drunk in the summer |
| 36% | ORAL | 4 | Inserted in the mouth, like some thermometers |
| 35% | ONEEYED | 7 | Like a cyclops or some of the Minions in "Despicable Me": Hyph. |
| 34% | WARM | 4 | Like some welcomes, or change a letter in 39a to get the answer |
| 34% | DEPP | 4 | Ichabod Crane in ''Sleepy Hollow'' |
| 33% | BITESIZE | 8 | Small enough to fit in the mouth, like some candy bars: Hyph. |
| 33% | ELFIN | 5 | Like some characters in "The Hobbit" |
| 33% | SARA | 4 | "Nobody doesn't like ___ Lee" (slogan on some desserts in the freezer case) |
| 32% | YEARONYEAR | 10 | Like some annual accounting comparisons, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 31% | LONG | 4 | Like the i in like |