| 100% | TAKESTOTHEAIR | 13 | Starts traveling like seven key words in this puzzle |
| 63% | SHADESOFPINK | 12 | What seven key words in this puzzle are |
| 53% | STPATRICKSDAY | 13 | Observance associated with eight key words in this puzzle |
| 51% | USS | 3 | Abbr. that can precede nine key words in this puzzle |
| 51% | IRATE | 5 | What nine key words in this puzzle are synonyms of |
| 51% | UNDERTHEHOOD | 12 | Where nine key words in this puzzle can be found |
| 49% | CHRISTMAS | 9 | Word that can precede the starts of eight key words in this puzzle |
| 49% | AFTERPARTY | 10 | Post-event bash ... or where eight key words in this puzzle might appear |
| 47% | TENNISANYONE | 12 | Question you might feel like asking after seeing nine key words in this puzzle? |
| 45% | RISING | 6 | Ascendant, like four words in this puzzle |
| 45% | REDEFINED | 9 | Like nine words in this puzzle, or what their first letters spell out |
| 43% | BEFOREHAND | 10 | In advance ... or where nine key words in this puzzle might appear |
| 42% | ACROSS | 6 | Direction of about half the words in this puzzle |
| 42% | FLIPFLOPPED | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 42% | MOVEDAROUND | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 42% | OUTOFORDER | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 42% | REARRANGED | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 41% | HARDC | 5 | It starts and ends seven answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | DOLLAR | 6 | Source of all the tender words in this puzzle? |
| 41% | EVEN | 4 | Like each answer in this puzzle - also each word in each clue - in length |
| 41% | ENG | 3 | Language of the words in this puzzle: Abbr. |
| 40% | TEN | 3 | Number of one-voweled, seven-letter words in this puzzle |
| 40% | GOESUPANDDOWN | 13 | What each group of circled words in this puzzle does |
| 40% | ACME | 4 | Synonym for the first word in this puzzle's title |
| 40% | ONEDOWN | 7 | In this puzzle it starts B-E-L |
| 39% | TRAPPED | 7 | Confined, like five letters in this puzzle that spell an apt word |
| 39% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter "C" |
| 39% | ELBA | 4 | Island whose name is another word in this puzzle spelled backward |
| 39% | CROSS | 5 | What words do in a puzzle like this one |
| 38% | FORK | 4 | What the letters added to the four "stirred" words in this puzzle spell |