| 100% | LASTWORD | 8 | "Clue" is the one in this clue |
| 89% | WORD | 4 | The first one in this clue is "The" |
| 78% | TYPO | 4 | Mistaek such as the one in this clue |
| 77% | VERBOSE | 7 | Denoting the style in which one might consider this clue to be written |
| 72% | EDGE | 4 | The answer to this clue is located on one |
| 69% | NERO | 4 | The one Roman emperor hidden in this clue |
| 69% | ENG | 3 | The language this clue is written in: Abbr. |
| 69% | ELEVEN | 6 | The number of clues in this puzzle minus one |
| 68% | COLUMN | 6 | This answer is in the third one of this puzzle |
| 68% | CONVENTION | 10 | The Democrats are scheduled for one in Milwaukee this year |
| 68% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 67% | SEER | 4 | If you were one, you'd already know the answer to this clue |
| 67% | HAL | 3 | Name that's one of the halves of a word in this clue |
| 66% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 66% | LIE | 3 | "This is not the last clue in this puzzle," e.g. |
| 66% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 66% | JET | 3 | The Lippisch Ente was the first one of these to fly, in 1928 |
| 65% | ELEMENT | 7 | Leeloo is The Fifth one in this 1997 sci-fi film |
| 65% | RACE | 4 | What the vehicle in "lane one" of this crossword is winning? |
| 65% | LOWERCASE | 9 | like all the letters in this clue |
| 65% | YOU | 3 | The one reading this clue |
| 65% | URN | 3 | The elaborate Derveni Krater, discovered in a tomb in 1962, is basically one these |
| 65% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 65% | ALPHABETICORDER | 15 | Puzzler's alert: the clues in this crossword are all in this |
| 65% | HAIKUS | 6 | Japanese poems / like the one used in this clue / a beautiful hint |
| 64% | THEBIGBANG | 10 | The mathematics of this theory was one of the things Stephen Hawking was engrossed in |
| 64% | ALIENS | 6 | One of the eggs used in this 1986 film is now exhibited at the Smithsonian |
| 64% | LASTLETTERS | 11 | Explanatory information about this puzzle is revealed by reading these in the clues |
| 64% | SEN | 3 | Kelly Loeffler of GA is the most recent one of these, in brief |
| 63% | TEN | 3 | The number of syllables in this clue |