| 100% | SOO | 3 | "And this pertains to me ... how?" |
| 61% | AND | 3 | "This matters to me how?" |
| 57% | LEAVEMEOUTOFIT | 14 | "I want nothing to do with this!," and how to make the six starred clues match their answers |
| 57% | HUMAN | 5 | ___ race (you and I belong to this one) |
| 56% | PROTIP | 6 | "Let me tell you, this is how to do it" |
| 56% | KNOW | 4 | Sing along to this classic ABBA song! "Chiquitita, you and I ___, how the heartaches come and they go..." |
| 55% | OKSO | 4 | "And this affects me ... how?" |
| 55% | DRAWSTARSON | 11 | With 86-, 17- and 91-Down, how to "illustrate" this puzzle |
| 55% | JUSTADDWATER | 12 | "Instant" instructions, and how to complete this puzzle's starred clues |
| 55% | THEBOMB | 7 | Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ___ |
| 53% | FRUITLESSLY | 11 | How I hope you don't try to solve most contest crosswords...except this puzzle |
| 53% | HERESWHY | 8 | "Allow me to explain," and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 53% | BACKINTOACORNER | 15 | Trap, and a hint for how to enter eight answers in this puzzle |
| 53% | ANYADVICE | 9 | "Want to tell me how you'd handle this?" |
| 51% | SO | 2 | "And this should matter to me ... why?" |
| 50% | NAVAL | 5 | Pertaining to fleets and admirals |
| 50% | CHERRYPICKING | 13 | I sent this crossword to 100 friends, and two of them really liked it! |
| 50% | ONASLIDINGSCALE | 15 | Adjusted to some index - or how 23-, 35-, 66- and 93-Across are measured per this puzzle? |
| 50% | ALLEYESONME | 11 | "Pay close attention to what I'm doing," and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 49% | TAKE | 4 | With this puzzle's circled letters, exercise a certain constitutional right, and how to answer each starred clue |
| 49% | WHATCANIDO | 10 | "Tell me how to help" |
| 48% | OUR | 3 | Belonging to me and you |
| 48% | KNOW | 4 | Sing along to this breakup song by Gotye and Kimbra! "Now you're just somebody that I used to ___..." |
| 48% | IMDB | 4 | One place to find 18-, 28-, 49- and 64-Across ... or, parsed differently, how these people might introduce themselves |
| 48% | SAMSA | 5 | Kafka protagonist who wonders, “What if I went back to sleep for a while and forgot all this foolishness?” |
| 48% | RIPARIAN | 8 | Pertaining to riverbanks, and rights to fish there |
| 48% | MEDIEVAL | 8 | Pertaining to the time of castles and knights |
| 48% | ACOUSTIC | 8 | Pertaining to the study of sound and soundwaves |
| 47% | COLINKAEPERNICK | 15 | He said, “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way” |
| 47% | ITGOESWITHOUTSAYING | 19 | "We all see the obvious here, right?," and how to make six long answers in this puzzle match their clues? |