| 100% | SKETCHY | 7 | Vague in description |
| 53% | VIBE | 4 | Vague sensation, in slang |
| 53% | MURKILY | 7 | In a vague way |
| 53% | KINDASORTA | 10 | In a vague way |
| 52% | RARE | 4 | Description in some eBay listings |
| 50% | PHONETICS | 9 | Description of sounds in a language |
| 50% | XXXX | 4 | Fruit in lute descriptions |
| 48% | REQ | 3 | Abbr. in some class descriptions |
| 48% | PSY | 3 | University department, in course descriptions |
| 48% | MONODIC | 7 | Description of a single melodic line in music |
| 47% | MOST | 4 | Word in a record's description |
| 47% | VAGUE | 5 | Lacking in detail, like a description |
| 47% | PUTITMILDLY | 11 | Was understated in one's description |
| 47% | IMAGERY | 7 | Visual descriptions in literature, like pictures |
| 46% | ONEDAY | 6 | At some vague point in the future |
| 46% | BIOGRAPHY | 9 | Personal description and history in online profile |
| 46% | REDNOSED | 8 | Facial description in a classic holiday song |
| 45% | VAGUE | 5 | Like the description "somewhere in the U.S." |
| 45% | ITSY | 4 | Start of a spider's description, in song |
| 44% | HALFBAKED | 9 | Description of 17-, 25-, 36- and 49-Across, in different senses? |
| 43% | INCLEMENT | 9 | Extreme or severe in a description of the weather |
| 43% | PINSTRIPE | 9 | Narrow line in fabric and a description of suits |
| 43% | EMOTIONALLABOR | 14 | Work that’s not usually included in job descriptions |
| 42% | MACGUFFIN | 9 | Name given to a vague plot point in the movies |
| 41% | ODETOJOY | 8 | Work incorporated in 33-Across ... or a description of this puzzle? |
| 41% | ITSY | 4 | Part of a spider's description, in a children's song |
| 41% | ITSONTHEHOUSE | 13 | "No charge," and a description of five places in this puzzle |
| 41% | HQS | 3 | Command ctrs., and a description of five answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | TURNINGAPROPHET | 15 | Punny description of the circled letters in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 39% | WATERSLIDES | 11 | Summer amusements ... or a literal description of three answers in this puzzle |