| 100% | FREE | 4 | ___ association (what's needed to answer three clues in this puzzle) |
| 55% | GIVEMESOMESPACE | 15 | Request needed to understand four clues in this puzzle |
| 55% | RUNUPATAB | 9 | Accumulate charges … or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle |
| 53% | HOLDDOWNTHEFORT | 15 | Have charge temporarily ... or a hint to answering this puzzle's three starred clues |
| 51% | INNERCIRCLE | 11 | Brain trust, and what you need to add to solve 16 clues in this puzzle |
| 50% | OXYMORONS | 9 | What the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all are |
| 50% | SECRET | 6 | When revealed in this puzzle, it reverses the meanings of the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | GRANDPA | 7 | Pop's pop ... or, divided into three parts, what the answers to starred clues have in common |
| 49% | CLIMBSTHELADDER | 15 | Advances through corporate ranks … and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does |
| 49% | RIGHTONR | 8 | Legal maneuver ... with a hint to answering seven clues in this puzzle |
| 49% | MISSINGLINKS | 12 | Evolutionary mysteries, and a feature of three clues in this puzzle |
| 49% | CLOCKWISE | 9 | How this puzzle's grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues, when written in 17-Across |
| 48% | CONS | 4 | Disadvantages found in this puzzle's three longest Across answers ... |
| 48% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| 48% | LETTERSONTHEKEYS | 16 | What's needed in order to escape this crossword |
| 47% | BRITISHISMS | 11 | Words found in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 47% | DAILYJUMBLE | 11 | Popular newspaper puzzle, and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 47% | BIRDS | 5 | Things hidden in the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues |
| 46% | LOOPS | 5 | What the paths of three answers in this puzzle include |
| 46% | STATEBORDERS | 12 | What the answers to three "pair" clues share, both in this grid and in reality |
| 46% | DROPTROU | 8 | Moon, or what three answers in this puzzle literally do |
| 46% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 46% | PASSNOTES | 9 | Furtively communicate in class, or what you need to do seven times in this puzzle |
| 46% | ERR | 3 | Use the answer to any of this puzzle's starred clues in ordinary conversation? |
| 46% | DARKARTS | 8 | What sorcerers practice ... or a hint to interpreting five clues in this puzzle |
| 45% | FLIP | 4 | Action you need to take to understand this puzzle's starred clues |
| 45% | THEBRONTES | 10 | Literary trio found in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 45% | PUSMOTTOB | 9 | *"Cheers!" ... or a hint to answering this puzzle's five starred clues |
| 45% | AROUND | 6 | Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make sense |
| 45% | PUBLICEDUCATION | 15 | What this puzzle's four missing clues spell, in order |