% replaces any number of letters (la% - lake, lamp)_ replaces one letter (ca_ - car, cat)

Other crossword clues for answer "MIDDLEAGESPREAD"

MIDDLEAGESPREAD
It may cause pants to be too tight
Weight gain, of a sort
Boomers' broad base?
Fifties phenomenon for many
Waist woe (caused, perhaps, by overindulgence in 17-, 29- and 50-Across)
Waistline concern
Fortysomething concern
Undesired expansion
Fifty-something's weight gain
It may make shoes out of sight
Fiftyish expansion
Low-calorie margarine?
It may make shoes slowly disappear
Fortysomething's woe, or this puzzle's theme (see letters 7, 8 and 9)
Reason to diet
Reason to diet and exercise
Empty-nester's weight problem