| 100% | ALTER | 5 | Take in or rehem, as a pair of pants |
| 58% | ALTER | 5 | Make changes to, as a pair of pants |
| 58% | HEM | 3 | Shorten, as a pair of pants |
| 55% | INTHECROSSHAIRS | 15 | Fixed as a target ... or a hint to four pairs of intersecting answers in this puzzle |
| 53% | ALTER | 5 | Take in or let out, as a dress |
| 51% | ADOPT | 5 | Take in, as a pet or a child |
| 50% | SPREAD | 6 | Pair of facing pages in a newspaper or book |
| 47% | ADOPT | 5 | To legally take in a child or pet as one's own |
| 46% | GASP | 4 | Half a pair of pants |
| 46% | IRON | 4 | Press a pair of pants |
| 46% | ACTS | 4 | Parts of a play, or takes part in a play |
| 46% | HEMMED | 6 | Shortened a pair of pants, say |
| 46% | CREASE | 6 | Pleat on a pair of pants |
| 46% | INSEAM | 6 | Spec for a pair of pants |
| 46% | HEM | 3 | Shorten a pair of pants, say |
| 46% | MATCHING | 8 | Alike, as a pair of socks |
| 46% | DARN | 4 | Repair, as a pair of stockings |
| 46% | UNYOKE | 6 | Disjoin, as a pair of oxen |
| 46% | UNYOKED | 7 | Disunited, as a pair of oxen |
| 45% | FADED | 5 | Lost color, as a pair of jeans |
| 45% | SYNC | 4 | Align, as a pair of audio tracks |
| 45% | SEW | 3 | Fix as a pair of torn socks? |
| 45% | SHINE | 5 | Spiff up, as a pair of shoes |
| 45% | TEND | 4 | Take care of, as a garden or a wound |
| 45% | TEND | 4 | Take care of, as a bar or a garden |
| 45% | ALTER | 5 | Let out or take in, as a costume |
| 44% | COVERALLTHEBASES | 16 | Take care of everything … or a hint to what four squares in this puzzle do |
| 44% | FIT | 3 | Be the right size, as a pair of jeans |
| 44% | BASINED | 7 | Enclosed in a round or oval-shaped tract of land, as with a lake |
| 43% | CRUCIATE | 8 | A pair of ligaments in the human knee |