| 100% | YENS | 4 | Overwhelming hankerings, like the urge to eat yet another handful of peanuts |
| 30% | YEARLY | 6 | Like the return of swallows to Capistrano |
| 30% | SOAPY | 5 | Like the taste of cilantro, to some |
| 30% | SALTY | 5 | Like the taste of chips and peanuts, typically |
| 28% | GREEN | 5 | Like the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 28% | LONG | 4 | Like the description "drawn out excessively to the point of ridiculousness" |
| 28% | ABC | 3 | Another way of referring to the alphabet |
| 28% | SEWEDUP | 7 | Fixed, like the ends of the answers to starred clues |
| 28% | MIGRATION | 9 | The movement of people from place to another |
| 28% | REFERRAL | 8 | The directing of a patient to another specialist |
| 28% | TIL | 3 | Until, to the likes of Tennyson |
| 27% | BESTINPRAYERS | 13 | Like the most devout churchgoers … and another anagram of 20-Across |
| 27% | HOSE | 4 | Garden item that sounds like the plural of another garden item |
| 27% | PHYCOLOGY | 9 | Like algology, another word for the study of algae |
| 27% | TRANSIT | 7 | The carrying of goods from one place to another |
| 27% | OUTINFORCE | 10 | Like a throng of protesters taking to the streets |
| 27% | FAIREST | 7 | Like Aphrodite, according to the Judgment of Paris |
| 27% | OUTSOURCE | 9 | To get another company to do part of the work |
| 27% | SEVENTH | 7 | Like Maryland, in order of states admitted to the Union |
| 27% | TEEMS | 5 | Is abundant to the point of being overwhelming |
| 27% | APT | 3 | Like the anagramming of A DECIMAL POINT to make I'M A DOT IN PLACE |
| 27% | ASIAN | 5 | Like an increasing amount of immigration to the U.S. nowadays |
| 27% | DEFLATE | 7 | To let the air out of an object, like a balloon |
| 27% | DEWIER | 6 | Like grass in the morning, compared to other times of day |
| 26% | CANNIBAL | 8 | Someone who eats the flesh of another human being |
| 26% | MIDEAR | 6 | Like some blows to the side of the head |
| 26% | STERN | 5 | Like the tone of a talking-to |
| 26% | FREE | 4 | Like the initial letters of the answers to the six starred clues, on "Wheel of Fortune" |
| 26% | DRUNK | 5 | Like the kereru pigeons of New Zealand, which fall out of trees after eating fermented fruit |
| 26% | REDANDWHITE | 11 | Like the Canadian flag ... and a hint to the first names of 24- and 48-Across |