| 100% | MACE | 4 | ''Seasonal'' not hidden in the seven longest answers |
| 65% | TOGO | 4 | Pair in the seven longest answers |
| 64% | MAMA | 4 | Pair present in the seven longest answers |
| 64% | IFSO | 4 | Word pair in the seven longest answers |
| 61% | GEMS | 4 | What are hidden in the four longest answers |
| 61% | OROR | 4 | What the seven longest answers have in common |
| 59% | SPA | 3 | Resort hidden in the five longest puzzle answers |
| 57% | EIEIO | 5 | What the seven longest Across answers have in common |
| 55% | SAILS | 5 | Travels over what's hidden in the answers to the seven starred clues |
| 55% | RECYCLEDMETAL | 13 | Scrapyard commodity ... and what's hidden in the nine other longest puzzle answers |
| 55% | PCORMAC | 7 | What's hidden in the four longest Across answers |
| 53% | SOS | 3 | Call for assistance hidden in the four longest puzzle answers |
| 52% | SHAPESHIFTERS | 13 | Amorphous sci-fi beings, and a hint to what's hidden in the four other longest answers |
| 52% | NEWS | 4 | First letters of the words hidden in the four longest answers |
| 52% | CHOIR | 5 | Where else to find words hidden in the three longest answers |
| 50% | DAYS | 4 | What the seven longest answers have, briefly |
| 48% | GAG | 3 | Joke hidden in the starred answers |
| 48% | RINGS | 5 | Five __ (Olympic logo, and what's within the seven longest answers) |
| 47% | OSLO | 4 | City hidden in the answer to 1-Down |
| 47% | TOE | 3 | Stocking stuffer found in the long Across answers |
| 46% | PERP | 4 | Whom to catch in the three longest answers |
| 46% | BRR | 3 | What's heard in the three longest answers |
| 46% | THREE | 5 | Number of words in the four longest answers |
| 46% | INFO | 4 | "Tips" found in the five longest answers |
| 45% | GEM | 3 | There's one hidden in the answer to each starred clue |
| 45% | CPAS | 4 | Summers found in the four longest answers |
| 45% | TOES | 4 | What's in the five longest answers |
| 45% | HAIR | 4 | Bisected word in the eight longest answers |
| 45% | ABCDF | 5 | Tripled letters in the longest Across answers |
| 45% | BIRDS | 5 | Things hidden in the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues |