| 100% | REDUCTIVE | 9 | Tending to present a subject in a simplified form |
| 47% | ODE | 3 | A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject |
| 45% | HOE | 3 | Tend to a garden, in a way |
| 45% | WATERS | 6 | Tends to the plants, in a way |
| 45% | HOED | 4 | Tended to the garden, in a way |
| 44% | WATER | 5 | Tend to, in a way, as a garden |
| 44% | RAKED | 5 | Tended to a Zen garden, in a way |
| 44% | DEPICT | 6 | To show or represent in a form of art |
| 43% | REDLINED | 8 | Subjected to discriminatory banking practices, in a way |
| 43% | MIST | 4 | Tend to houseplants, in a way |
| 42% | SEARS | 5 | Subjects to a Maillard reaction, in a way |
| 41% | TAB | 3 | Keyboard key that takes you to the next blank in a form |
| 41% | KNEE | 4 | Body part touched to the ground in a modern form of protest |
| 40% | SCALABLE | 8 | Subject to change in size, as a picture on a screen |
| 40% | STABLEBOY | 9 | Person in a barn who tends to the animals |
| 39% | ASK | 3 | To request information in the form of a question |
| 38% | BONSAI | 6 | Japanese art form whose name, translated literally, refers to planting in a container |
| 37% | NOMINATE | 8 | To enter a horse in a race |
| 37% | DROID | 5 | Sci-fi term that refers to a robot in human-like form, popularized by "Star Wars" |
| 37% | DIAL | 4 | Word before "up" to mean a form of internet access used in the '90s |
| 37% | OPEC | 4 | Organisation formed in 1961 to administer a common policy for the sale of petroleum |
| 37% | OPEC | 4 | Organization formed in 1961 to administer a common policy for the sale of petroleum |
| 37% | OPEC | 4 | Organisation formed in 1960 to administer a common policy for the sale of petroleum |
| 37% | CIRCLEBACK | 10 | Return to a subject in conversation, and what this puzzle's author did to make the examples stand out |
| 37% | AMPUTATE | 8 | To remove a limb in a surgical operation |
| 37% | NOMINATE | 8 | To enter a candidate in a political race |
| 37% | OLDMACDONALD | 12 | Subject of a children's song associated with the vowels in the answer to each starred clue |
| 37% | SPONGE | 6 | ___ cake, lightly flavored cake that can be used to form multiple layers in a cake |
| 37% | LATENTLY | 8 | In a dormant form |
| 37% | BOXINGDAY | 9 | Present time in England? ... or a hint to each set of circled squares |