100% | ISSO | 4 | "And what ___ rare as a day in June?" |
98% | ISSO | 4 | "And what ___ rare as a day in June?": Lowell |
55% | RARE | 4 | Like a day in June |
53% | RARE | 4 | Like a day in June, according to Lowell |
53% | CODEBREAKER | 11 | Intelligence agency employee, and what a black square acts as in rows 3, 5, 8 and 11 |
52% | SORARE | 6 | Like a day in June, in a Lowell poem |
52% | SORARE | 6 | Like a day in June, per a Lowell poem |
50% | ACITYONAHILL | 12 | Metaphor for America's standing as a beacon of hope, and what can literally be found four times in this puzzle |
48% | MAKEMINEADOUBLE | 15 | Drink order on a tough day, and a hint to what's in 17-, 22-, 37- and 47-Across |
48% | STAY | 4 | "___ tuned! Solve the last words in the next 9 days and find a fun theme as you go along!" |
46% | WATERLEVEL | 10 | What rises and falls in a lake |
45% | CONTRAST | 8 | A sharp difference such as day and night |
45% | DRAG | 4 | What a Pride Day parader might dress in |
45% | EYE | 3 | What a needle and potato have in common |
45% | ONAGAINOFFAGAIN | 15 | Intermittent, as a romance, or what's in the starred answers |
45% | MONSOON | 7 | What to expect between June and September in India |
45% | ONEFLESH | 8 | What a man and a woman become in marriage |
45% | EYE | 3 | What a potato and a needle have in common |
45% | PURSE | 5 | What a woman might carry money and makeup in |
45% | GEARS | 5 | What first, second, and third are, in a car |
44% | SLED | 4 | What a lunch tray can act as, in a pinch |
44% | HILL | 4 | What Jack and Jill went up, in a nursery rhyme |
44% | MARIGOLD | 8 | Color and flower used as a motif in Monsoon Wedding |
44% | MACABRE | 7 | Gruesome and scary as in a ghostly tale |
44% | DINE | 4 | Enjoy a nice meal, as in "Wine and ___" |
44% | BOOTUP | 6 | Start, as a computer, and what each answer to a starred clue has? |
44% | ROUGHHOUSE | 10 | Rowdy play, and what's hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
43% | OUTS | 4 | What tagging a runner and catching a fly ball result in |
43% | SEED | 4 | What is planted in the soil and could become a tree? |
43% | RHYME | 5 | What the first, second and fifth lines in a limerick do |