| 100% | LIE | 3 | "This answer is four letters long," for example |
| 56% | OATH | 4 | This answer is a four-letter word |
| 54% | LIE | 3 | "The answer to this clue is four letters," e.g. |
| 53% | HINT | 4 | "This answer is an anagram of THIN," for example |
| 52% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 51% | GREAT | 5 | Word whose letters are used to spell this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 46% | DONUT | 5 | Treat whose varieties appear at the starts of four long answers and are represented a dozen times in this puzzle |
| 45% | SPOTIFY | 7 | With 38-Across, annual compilation often shared on social media, and an apt place for four of this puzzle's long answers? |
| 45% | HAILSTONE | 9 | What each of the four longest answers is a term for |
| 44% | SOREEYES | 8 | Something you long for might be a sight for these |
| 44% | DOWNS | 5 | Some are ten letters long in this grid |
| 44% | SEMI | 4 | This might be in for the long haul |
| 44% | ERR | 3 | Put this answer in the space for 4-Across, for example |
| 43% | PRMAN | 5 | Ad guy responsible for four long puzzle answers? |
| 43% | GEMS | 4 | What are hidden in the four longest answers |
| 42% | ELEVEN | 6 | How many letters are in the longest answers in this puzzle - or how many of these answers there are |
| 42% | TASTE | 5 | The clue for this answer is found at 7-Across |
| 42% | IOERROR | 7 | Computer glitch responsible for four of this puzzle's answers |
| 42% | FOOD | 4 | ___ pyramid, four examples of which are seen in this puzzle |
| 42% | TSA | 3 | A long line may be waiting for this, in brief |
| 42% | SOS | 3 | Call for assistance hidden in the four longest puzzle answers |
| 42% | EMPTYEXCUSE | 11 | Lame justification for the letter substitution in four puzzle answers? |
| 41% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 41% | SPAN | 4 | [The clue for this answer is hidden elsewhere in this puzzle] |
| 41% | WEAR | 4 | (The clue for this answer is hiding elsewhere in this puzzle ...) |
| 41% | APIN | 4 | "Put ___ in it," advice for solving four answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | GREEK | 5 | The short letters that the four longest Across answers end with |
| 41% | NEWS | 4 | First letters of the words hidden in the four longest answers |
| 41% | AID | 3 | Helping hand that's been "lent" to the four longest answers |
| 41% | WORD | 4 | Answer to this clue, for example |