| 100% | BEAST | 5 | "That was a ___!" (solver's reaction to finishing this puzzle, maybe) |
| 52% | DAILYPLANET | 11 | Publication that is the key to this puzzle's theme |
| 52% | THREEMUSKETEERS | 15 | Group whose motto is a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 51% | FAULTFINDING | 12 | Activity that will be unsuccessful when applied to this puzzle’s theme? |
| 51% | THESIXTHSENSE | 13 | 1999 film whose title is a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 51% | LINKEDIN | 8 | Popular website whose name is a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 51% | WHYYOULITTLE | 12 | What a solver might growl after catching on to this puzzle's theme? |
| 49% | VET | 3 | Solver to whom this puzzle is dedicated |
| 49% | SEVENCS | 7 | Punny title for this puzzle that's a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | GREATWALL | 9 | Landmark that, in a way, is a border feature of this puzzle and a hint to what's missing from 10 answers |
| 48% | NOELNEILL | 9 | Lois Lane player of early TV, whose first name is a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 47% | JUSTICEGINSBURG | 15 | Subject of this puzzle, who once said "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you" |
| 45% | DEADLINE | 8 | Time that a project has to be finished by |
| 45% | JAN | 3 | New Year month to send a wish that is highlighted in this puzzle, for short |
| 45% | TOMB | 4 | Type of structure that this puzzle's theme is a grand example of |
| 44% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle |
| 44% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |
| 44% | ASHRAM | 6 | In the Mahabharata, it's stated that a youthful Krishna was sent to see Sand?pan? Muni at one of these |
| 44% | UTURN | 5 | Maneuver required five times to finish this puzzle |
| 44% | DOORWAY | 7 | Portal represented 20 times in this puzzle that lets you in and out of a confined space (Note: These special letters, reading left to right, row by row, will produce an apt four-word phrase) |
| 43% | SEA | 3 | Place for a FISH (which is a hint to this puzzle's theme) |
| 43% | THEUSOPEN | 9 | Annual sporting event that is this puzzle's theme |
| 43% | TICKALLTHEBOXES | 15 | Be fully qualified ... or a hint to interpreting this puzzle's shaded squares |
| 43% | FOURH | 5 | Kind of club that's a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 43% | READEVERYOTHERLETTER | 20 | Instruction for discovering this puzzle’s hidden wish to solvers |
| 43% | #SIGNS | 6 | You'll need six of them to finish this puzzle |
| 42% | FLASK | 5 | Volumetric container found in a lab that can be used to see some chemical reactions |
| 42% | THEIDES | 7 | Date that provides a phonetic hint to four other answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | LITTLEWOMEN | 11 | 1860s novel that is the basis for this puzzle's theme |
| 42% | KOALABEAR | 9 | Nonprimate with fingerprints that are nearly identical to a human's |