| 100% | AFTERTHOUGHT | 12 | “P.S.” comment ... or where the ends of eight answers in this puzzle might appear? |
| 52% | SANDWICHSHOP | 12 | Its menu might include the ends of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 49% | FALLLEAVES | 10 | Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle? |
| 48% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 48% | DECLARATION | 11 | With 114-Across, source of the phrase formed by the ends of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 46% | TIMES | 5 | Square where the words in this puzzle's dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song's first verse |
| 46% | FLIMFLAMARTISTS | 15 | People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 45% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 45% | AFTERPARTY | 10 | Post-event bash ... or where eight key words in this puzzle might appear |
| 44% | BLOCK | 5 | Literal element of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | ALLTHATJAZZ | 11 | Bob Fosse film title relevant to the starts of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | OSCAR | 5 | With 56-Down, start of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | YOUREPUTTINGMEON | 16 | What eight answers in this puzzle might say if they could talk? |
| 43% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 42% | TAMES | 5 | Breaks ... or an anagram of the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | BEFOREHAND | 10 | In advance ... or where nine key words in this puzzle might appear |
| 41% | PHONETIC | 8 | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | BUGS | 4 | They're found at the end of this puzzle's longest answers |
| 40% | LOOPS | 5 | What the paths of three answers in this puzzle include |
| 40% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | ATSEA | 5 | Clueless ... or where the answers to this puzzle's starred clues were all first used |
| 40% | FAIRYTALEENDING | 15 | What’s spelled out by the starts of six answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 39% | THEDARKSIDE | 11 | Where Darth Vader gets his strength ... or what eight answers in this puzzle share |
| 39% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 39% | AMA | 3 | Professional org. ending eight answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 39% | COLORPICTURES | 13 | Photos not in shades of gray ... or what eight answers in this puzzle are? |
| 38% | BEHINDTIME | 10 | Later than expected ... and where the ends of the answers to starred clues may be found |
| 38% | RAMP | 4 | What each circled model in this puzzle ascends or descends, and what's spelled by the letters where the models cross |