| 100% | WEAVING | 7 | The craft of forming fabric by interlacing threads |
| 44% | WEAVE | 5 | Make a fabric by interlacing long threads |
| 40% | WEAVING | 7 | Interlacing of threads to make fabric |
| 39% | LECTURE | 7 | The French caught by true form of sermon |
| 38% | DUNE | 4 | Ridge of sand formed by the wind |
| 37% | SEACAVE | 7 | Hole formed by the wave action of the sea |
| 37% | STU | 3 | Nickname formed by three consecutive letters of the alphabet |
| 37% | UMBRA | 5 | Darkest part of a shadow formed by the Earth |
| 36% | ARCS | 4 | The ___, American garage rock band formed by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys |
| 36% | ARTNOUVEAU | 10 | Style of architecture of the 1890s characterised by stylised natural forms |
| 36% | ACRONYM | 7 | Word formed by the first letters of a series of words |
| 36% | MILLINERY | 9 | The craft of hat-making |
| 36% | MASONRY | 7 | The craft of laying stone |
| 35% | POTTERY | 7 | The craft of making porcelain or earthenware |
| 35% | DOUBLE | 6 | With 52-Down, betrayal, and what's formed by each pair of the trigrams |
| 35% | ION | 3 | Electrically charged atom formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons |
| 35% | TWOSISTERS | 10 | 1970 work by Gore Vidal subtitled A Novel in the Form of a Memoir |
| 34% | THUN | 4 | Lake —, body of water in central Switzerland formed by a widening of the Aare River |
| 34% | IROCK | 5 | Boast formed by removing the middle two words of a popular Paul Simon song title |
| 34% | EEC | 3 | Grp. formed by the Treaty of Rome, 1957 |
| 33% | WEAVE | 5 | Interlace threads to make fabric |
| 33% | VEVO | 4 | Video music hosting group, formed by two of the "big three" record companies in the US |
| 33% | ARS | 3 | Craft of the ancient world |
| 33% | WESER | 5 | River formed by the junction of the Fulda and Werra |
| 33% | ANAGRAM | 7 | Word formed by rearranging the letters of another |
| 33% | INSIDEJOB | 9 | Betrayal of trust, hinted at by the circled letters, which form an apt John le Carré title |
| 33% | CANYOU | 6 | & 10D First of the Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope published in serial form in 1864 and 1865 |
| 32% | UNSEWN | 6 | Like fabric by the yard |
| 32% | SIEVE | 5 | Seagoing craft of the Jumblies |