| 100% | HEDGING | 7 | Shrubbery grown in lines to outline a garden |
| 44% | HEIRAPPARENT | 12 | Next in line to a throne |
| 42% | HEIRESS | 7 | Woman in line to inherit a fortune |
| 41% | SEMI | 4 | Vehicle in line to use a highway weigh station |
| 40% | SCAT | 4 | Word to a stray cat in your garden |
| 40% | DATE | 4 | Top line to fill in on a check |
| 39% | ALONGSIDE | 9 | Next to, in a line with |
| 39% | HOE | 3 | A tool used to break ground in your garden |
| 39% | ASIDES | 6 | Lines spoken directly to the audience in a play |
| 38% | NEWMAN | 6 | Cardinal __, Victorian in line to be a saint |
| 38% | HOED | 4 | Tended to the garden, in a way |
| 38% | WOMB | 4 | Home to a growing baby in pregnancy |
| 38% | SOLILOQUY | 9 | Lines of a play spoken to no one in particular |
| 38% | RAKED | 5 | Tended to a Zen garden, in a way |
| 38% | NUNNERY | 7 | "Get thee to a __", famous line in Hamlet |
| 37% | PLANTER | 7 | Container used to have a garden in a balcony |
| 37% | HOE | 3 | Tend to a garden, in a way |
| 37% | CANCANCAN | 9 | Is able to do high kicks in a chorus line? |
| 36% | TOYSRUSKID | 10 | One who doesn't want to grow up, in a jingle |
| 36% | BUTWAITTHERESMORE | 17 | Infomercial line ... with a hint to 10 answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | UPFOR | 5 | In line to get, maybe |
| 35% | AVERAGE | 7 | Garden-variety, and a hint to what's hidden in 18-, 43- and 65-Across |
| 35% | PSANDQS | 7 | Good behavior ... or a hint to two lines of letters in this puzzle |
| 35% | SOW | 3 | (1/5) To grow your own microgreens, ___ the seeds in a scattered manner |
| 35% | FISHING | 7 | Throwing a line in water to catch a meal |
| 35% | FLOWER | 6 | Garden sight, and, if reparsed, a hint to making sense of 10 answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | BONSAI | 6 | Small tree trained to grow in a pot |
| 34% | ELDEST | 6 | First in line to the throne |
| 34% | HEIR | 4 | First in line to the throne |
| 34% | WHEATSON | 8 | Parent's boy who grows a crop full of gluten? (... to a school in Massachusetts) |