| Be superior to | 14 |
| Surpass in quality | 18 |
| Surpass exceedingly in excellence | 33 |
| Make look amateurish | 20 |
| Far surpass | 11 |
| Blow away in competition | 24 |
| Be the better man or woman | 26 |
| Be far better than | 18 |
| End results | 11 |
| Render obsolete | 15 |
| Surpassed in performance | 24 |
| Performed in excess | 19 |
| Perform better than | 19 |
| Go one better than | 18 |
| One-up | 6 |
| Rise above | 10 |
| Beat, performance-wise | 22 |
| Run circles around | 18 |
| Surpass in performance | 22 |
| Better or best | 14 |
| Achieve a personal best | 23 |
| Surpass any expectations | 24 |
| Exceed expectations | 19 |
| Get one up on | 13 |
| Best in competition | 19 |
| Be more successful than | 23 |
| Be a cut above | 14 |
| Picnic spot | 11 |
| Campers' milieu | 19 |
| The Great ___ 1988 Candy flic | 29 |
| Great area? | 11 |
| Beat in a shootout | 18 |
| Sold more tickets than | 22 |
| Had better attendance than | 26 |
| Surpass in gluttony | 19 |
| Surpass at the dinner table | 27 |
| Win the pie contest | 19 |
| Consume more than | 17 |
| Best at putting things away | 27 |
| Beat in a hot dog contest | 25 |
| Win a contest for trenchermen | 29 |
| Show up at dinner? | 18 |
| Pack in more than | 17 |
| Pack away more than | 19 |
| Down more than | 14 |
| Defeat, as Kobayashi | 20 |
| Defeat in a pie contest | 23 |
| Best in the dining room | 23 |
| Best in an annual Nathan's contest, say | 43 |
| Best in a hot dog contest | 25 |
| Best at the table | 17 |
| Best at a buffet, say | 21 |
| Beat at dinner | 14 |
| Beat at a pie contest | 21 |
| Beat at a Nathan's hot dog contest, say | 43 |
| Beat at a hot dog contest | 25 |
| Consumes more than | 18 |
| Tops at the table | 17 |
| Tops at the dinner table? | 25 |
| Takes more second helpings | 26 |
| Downs more dogs than, in an annual contest | 42 |
| Consumes more than, at a buffet | 31 |
| Bests in an annual Nathan's contest, e.g. | 45 |
| Bests at the dinner table | 25 |
| Exposed publicly | 16 |
| Revealed, in modern lingo | 25 |
| Exposed, in a way | 17 |
| Removed from the closet? | 24 |
| Revealed someone's secret | 29 |
| Revealed a secret about, in a sense | 35 |
| Pulled from the closet (5) | 26 |
| No longer in the closet, say | 28 |
| Like some celebrities blogged about by Perez Hilton | 51 |
| Identified as a closet homosexual | 33 |
| Exposed, in modern slang | 24 |
| Exposed the secret of | 21 |
| Blabbed about, in a way | 23 |
| External | 8 |
| On the fringes | 14 |
| "The ___ Limits" | 26 |
| ___ space | 9 |
| Kind of space | 13 |
| Like some garments | 18 |
| Word with "space" or "limits" | 49 |
| Classic TV's "The ___ Limits" | 43 |
| Space modifier | 14 |
| Word with ear or space | 22 |
| Like some limits or garments | 28 |
| Like some limits | 16 |
| Like a rind | 11 |
| Lead-in for Mongolia or Hebrides | 32 |
| Kind of garments | 16 |
| Further away | 12 |
| "Plan 9 From ___ Space" | 33 |
| ___ Hebrides | 12 |
| Word with limits or space | 25 |
| Word with ear or wear | 21 |
| Word with "limits" or "space" | 49 |
| One of the Mongolias | 20 |
| On the periphery | 16 |