| 100% | SWEETENUP | 9 | Make nice to in a manipulative way |
| 58% | PRESALT | 7 | Make easier to plow, in a way |
| 58% | ENCODE | 6 | Make hard to read, in a way |
| 58% | LOUDEN | 6 | Make easier to hear, in a way |
| 58% | PERFORATE | 9 | Make easier to tear, in a way |
| 55% | DUBS | 4 | Makes accessible to a foreign audience, in a way |
| 55% | LOVEBOMBS | 9 | Showers with affection in a manipulative way |
| 54% | BLURRED | 7 | Hard to make out, in a way |
| 51% | TRIMTHETREE | 11 | Decorate for Christmas, in a way, and how to make sense of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 51% | DOESWONDERS | 11 | Makes something better in a big way |
| 51% | CRAFTING | 8 | Making artistic objects in a skilled way |
| 49% | BLOTTY | 6 | Spotted, not in a nice way |
| 48% | EXTORTS | 7 | Makes pay, in a bad way |
| 48% | PROFITABLY | 10 | In a way that makes money |
| 48% | TACT | 4 | Ability to say unpleasant things in a nice way |
| 48% | TAUNT | 5 | Ride, but not in a nice way |
| 48% | NEURALLY | 8 | In a way relating to the brain |
| 48% | IRREFUTABLY | 11 | In a way not to be disproved |
| 48% | SILENTLY | 8 | In a way that makes no noise |
| 48% | THANK | 5 | Recognize in a nice way |
| 48% | HEARTWARMING | 12 | Moving in a nice way |
| 47% | EQUITABLY | 9 | In a way that is fair to all |
| 47% | STURDILY | 8 | In a way that's meant to last |
| 47% | AGELESSLY | 9 | In a way that never seems to get older |
| 47% | TEASE | 5 | Make fun of, in a playful way |
| 46% | EXPLAINS | 8 | Describes in a way that makes sense |
| 46% | NAME | 4 | Give significance to, in a way |
| 46% | SASS | 4 | Be disrespectful to, in a way |
| 46% | KNEELAT | 7 | Show reverence to, in a way |
| 46% | RSVPD | 5 | Got back to, in a way |