| 100% | DOES | 4 | "What ___ this clue mean?" |
| 91% | DOWN | 4 | What the "d" in this crossword clue number means |
| 90% | IDEA | 4 | "I have no ___ what this means" ("I have no clue") |
| 83% | SENTENCE | 8 | What this clue is |
| 82% | ALLCAPS | 7 | WHAT THIS CLUE IS IN |
| 82% | BOLD | 4 | What this clue is in |
| 81% | GRAMMAR | 7 | What this clue ain't got? |
| 81% | END | 3 | What this clue is, with "the" |
| 81% | ESSES | 5 | What this clue has two of |
| 81% | ECHO | 4 | What this clue does . . . does . . . does . . . |
| 81% | CAPS | 4 | WHAT THIS CLUE IS WRITTEN IN |
| 81% | ALLCAPS | 7 | WHAT THIS CLUE IS WRITTEN IN |
| 80% | DITTO | 5 | What this might mean: " |
| 78% | SAD | 3 | What this means: :-( |
| 77% | THEME | 5 | What this clue's number is for this puzzle |
| 76% | AGREE | 5 | What this clue's subject and verb doesn't do |
| 73% | IMMAD | 5 | What this means in an e-mail: >:( |
| 72% | IDEA | 4 | "I have no ___ what this means" |
| 70% | PUBLICEDUCATION | 15 | What this puzzle's four missing clues spell, in order |
| 69% | FLOSS | 5 | Dental stu__, or when parsed di__erently, what this clue su__ers _rom? |
| 67% | CROSSWORDESE | 12 | What this puzzle's capitalized clues are, both by definition and pun |
| 67% | TROUBLE | 7 | What ignoring this puzzle's warning may mean |
| 66% | SKIPJACK | 8 | Certain tuna ... or what this puzzle's 10 starred clues do |
| 66% | SEMANTICS | 9 | What does it all mean, this study will explain |
| 64% | CAPS | 4 | ALL ___ (WHAT THIS CLUE IS IN) |
| 63% | OXYMORONS | 9 | What the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all are |
| 63% | INVISIBLEINK | 12 | What six of this puzzle's clues have been written with? |
| 62% | RHYME | 5 | What Across clue-and-answer pairings in this puzzle do, every time |
| 61% | CASE | 4 | wHaT cHaNgEs OfTeN iN tHiS cLuE |
| 61% | ESP | 3 | If you have it, you might know what this answer is without reading the clue |