| 100% | WINATLIFE | 9 | Succeed in all one's endeavors, so to speak |
| 55% | THORN | 5 | Irritant in one's side, so to speak |
| 52% | ELITE | 5 | In the one percent, so to speak |
| 48% | RAREGEM | 7 | One in a million, so to speak |
| 47% | DOGHOUSE | 8 | Place for one in disfavor, so to speak |
| 46% | NAPS | 4 | Recharges one's batteries, so to speak |
| 46% | TOIL | 4 | Break one's back, so to speak |
| 46% | ASLEEP | 6 | Recharging one's batteries, so to speak |
| 46% | SPEND | 5 | Lighten one's wallet, so to speak |
| 46% | SLEEP | 5 | Recharge one's batteries, so to speak |
| 46% | RESTS | 5 | Recharges one's batteries, so to speak |
| 45% | MIEN | 4 | Cut of one's jib, so to speak |
| 45% | SECRETWEAPONS | 13 | Aces up one's sleeve, so to speak |
| 45% | DATESUP | 7 | Woos outside one's league, so to speak |
| 45% | OFF | 3 | Not on one's game, so to speak |
| 45% | STEPS | 5 | Traveling, so to speak, in basketball |
| 44% | OPINES | 6 | Speaks one's views to no one in particular |
| 44% | ENTREE | 6 | In, so to speak |
| 44% | DIGS | 4 | Slangy term for one's castle, so to speak |
| 44% | DATEDUP | 7 | Was out of one's league, so to speak |
| 43% | BOTTOMLINE | 10 | Upshot, so to speak . . . or something missing from a capital letter in four of this puzzle’s clues? |
| 42% | PARTIER | 7 | One getting down, so to speak |
| 42% | DIETER | 6 | One cutting down, so to speak |
| 42% | SANE | 4 | All together, so to speak |
| 42% | SANE | 4 | All there, so to speak |
| 42% | INEPT | 5 | All thumbs, so to speak |
| 42% | SHAPEDUP | 8 | Got one's act together, so to speak |
| 41% | SMEE | 4 | "Man who stabbed, so to speak, without offence," in a 1911 novel |
| 41% | KISSED | 6 | Laid one on, so to speak |
| 41% | TAKETHECAKE | 11 | Beat all, so to speak |