| 100% | HELOISE | 7 | "Hints from" columnist |
| 79% | TIP | 3 | Hint from Heloise |
| 78% | PROTIP | 6 | Hint from an expert |
| 78% | XXXX | 4 | Hint from an oracle |
| 76% | HELOISE | 7 | Household hints columnist |
| 76% | HELENA | 6 | Hint-giving columnist |
| 76% | XXXXXXX | 7 | Hint-giving columnist |
| 76% | HELOISE | 7 | Hint-providing columnist |
| 76% | HELOISE | 7 | Hint-giving columnist |
| 72% | FOWLTIP | 7 | Helpful hint from a rooster? |
| 61% | OPEDPIECE | 9 | Essay from a guest columnist, e.g. |
| 59% | USES | 4 | Many hints in "Hints From Heloise" |
| 57% | SUGGEST | 7 | Offer hints on what to select from a menu |
| 52% | STATEYOURNAME | 13 | Common request from a prosecutor, and a hint to the asterisked answers |
| 50% | LANAIS | 6 | Roofed patios (hint: from the Hawaiian) |
| 50% | WHOLETTHEDOGSOUT | 16 | Hit song from 2000 ... and a hint to 10 symmetrically arranged Across answers |
| 50% | REARENDED | 9 | Bumped from behind, or a hint to 17-, 25-, 37- and 48-Across |
| 50% | SHIFTGEARS | 10 | Go from neutral to reverse ... and a hint to each set of circles |
| 50% | CHANGEOFVENUE | 13 | Request from a trial attorney, and a hint to this puzzle's circles |
| 50% | NOTQUITEMYTEMPO | 15 | Iconic line from "Whiplash," or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 48% | BEAM | 4 | "___ me up, Scotty," dialogue from "Star Trek" that hints at the concept of teleportation |
| 48% | OUTERMOST | 9 | Farthest from the center, and a hint to 17-, 24-, 40- and 51-Across |
| 48% | FUELUP | 6 | Go from empty to full, and a hint to four squares in this puzzle |
| 48% | ZEROTOHERO | 10 | Song from Disney's "Hercules," or a hint to this puzzle's theme entries |
| 48% | OUTOFBODYEXPERIENCE | 19 | Viewing oneself from above, say, or a hint to what the shaded spaces represent |
| 46% | EARTHRISE | 9 | Phenomenon witnessed from space … or a hint to this puzzle's sequence of shaded squares |
| 45% | SPOON | 5 | "There is no ___," dialogue from the movie "The Matrix" which hints toward living in a simulation |
| 44% | INITIALHERE | 11 | Contract directive … or a hint to what's missing from 17-, 20-, 58- and 62-Across |
| 44% | MISSINGLINK | 11 | What separates man from beast ... or a hint to 17-, 26-, 32-, 46-, and 51-Across? |
| 44% | WRITER | 6 | Novelist or columnist |