| 100% | PESTS | 5 | Anagrammatic intruders in this puzzle's longest Across answers |
| 65% | CONS | 4 | Disadvantages found in this puzzle's three longest Across answers ... |
| 61% | RBI | 3 | Stat inserted into this puzzle's long Across answers |
| 59% | YIDDISH | 7 | Source of the six longest Across answers in this puzzle |
| 59% | YEN | 3 | Urge hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers |
| 59% | LAD | 3 | Youth found in this puzzle's seven longest answers |
| 58% | OPERA | 5 | Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one |
| 57% | TOOTHDECAY | 10 | Dental problem (illustrated by this puzzle's long Across answers) |
| 55% | NDA | 3 | Confidentiality contract initials found in this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 55% | IOO | 3 | Arabic equivalent of C hidden in this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 52% | DAD | 3 | Today's honoree, found in this puzzle's eight longest answers |
| 52% | GEM | 3 | Stone that's "cut" in this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 50% | BATMAN | 6 | 1960s TV icon whose name follows a pair of letters found, appropriately, 16 times in this puzzle's Across answers |
| 50% | TTOPS | 5 | Features of some sports cars, and what this puzzle's four longest answers have in common |
| 49% | MAGI | 4 | Wise guys featured in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 48% | EVIL | 4 | This is bad. Real bad. And it's lurking in the longest puzzle answers, too! |
| 48% | DNA | 3 | Building block of life, and what's hidden in this puzzle's 4 longest answers |
| 47% | ONE | 3 | Number of Zs in this puzzle's answers |
| 47% | THREELETTERWORD | 15 | Something not found in this puzzle's answer |
| 47% | STICK | 5 | Feature of this puzzle's three long Down answers |
| 47% | DEN | 3 | Room divided in this puzzle's four longest entries |
| 47% | ONEONONE | 8 | Configuration of six places in this puzzle's answer |
| 46% | BACKWARD | 8 | How the Across answers appear in the bottom half of this puzzle |
| 46% | TMI | 3 | Response to oversharing found in this puzzle's starred answers |
| 46% | GRADE | 5 | With 57-Across, GPA lowerer evident in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 46% | OSCAR | 5 | Muppet who loves this puzzle's four longest answers? |
| 46% | ABBY | 4 | ___ Wambach, teammate of this puzzle's three longest answers |
| 46% | PALINDROME | 10 | Part of eight of this puzzle's long answers |
| 45% | XSANDOS | 7 | Playbook symbols ... or letters treated symbolically in this puzzle's Down answers |
| 45% | VOWEL | 5 | Type of letter that alternates with consonants in this puzzle's answers |