| 100% | WINKS | 5 | 41-Across, with respect to this answer's location |
| 86% | FIFTY | 5 | 46-Across, with respect to this answer's location |
| 86% | SEVEN | 5 | 22-Across, with respect to this answer's location |
| 86% | OVER | 4 | 5-Across, with respect to this answer's location |
| 53% | DONTTAKEANYOF | 13 | With 33-Down, Skeptic's advice ... or a "noteworthy" hint to seven Across answers in this puzzle |
| 50% | YOU | 3 | With 39-Across, answer to the question "Who's the solver of this puzzle?" |
| 50% | BIRD | 4 | With 41-Across, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 45% | FANTASTICBEASTS | 15 | With 68- and 74-Across, J. K. Rowling's first screenplay, with a hint to three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 45% | SENECA | 6 | With 1-Across, event essential to the achievement described when you combine this week's previous 1-Across answers |
| 44% | BURSTOUT | 8 | With 37-Across, lose it ... or what 12 answers in this puzzle appear to do |
| 43% | EVEN | 4 | With 34-Across, 50-50 chance ... or a hint to answering six equations in this puzzle |
| 43% | SPLIT | 5 | With 41- and 45-Across, go Dutch, or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 43% | YOUSEE | 6 | "It's like this," and a phonetic hint to the five longest Across answers |
| 43% | IFI | 3 | With 55- and 58-Across, “No obligation to answer this, but . . .” |
| 43% | TURNONAD | 8 | With 69-Across, change quickly, and a hint to completing three other long answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | ATOMICNUMBERS | 13 | What this puzzle's two-letter answers correspond with, given their locations in the grid |
| 42% | AROUNDTHE | 9 | With 56-Down, where to find this puzzle's 12 theme answers |
| 41% | IPROMISED | 9 | With 44-Across, rumor holder's answer to 20-Across |
| 41% | LETS | 4 | With 106-Across, "It's time to do this thing" |
| 41% | TAKE | 4 | With this puzzle's circled letters, exercise a certain constitutional right, and how to answer each starred clue |
| 41% | INTHECORNER | 11 | This puzzle's answer to 35-Across (spelled out four times) |
| 41% | EIGHT | 5 | With 50-Down, things centered in Across answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | ASFOR | 5 | With respect to |
| 40% | INRE | 4 | With respect to |
| 40% | REGARDING | 9 | With respect to |
| 40% | ANENT | 5 | With respect to |
| 40% | XXXXXXX | 7 | With respect to |
| 40% | AS FOR | 6 | With respect to |
| 40% | AND | 3 | + ... with a hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | INA | 3 | With 60-Down, on one's game ... and hint to the start of this puzzle's longest answers |