| 100% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 59% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 58% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 53% | RINGLEADERS | 11 | Crime bosses, or what the first words of the starred answers can be |
| 48% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 48% | PHONETIC | 8 | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 48% | ITSINTHEBAG | 11 | "We have this won" ... or what could be said about each of the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 46% | NUTSANDBOLTS | 12 | Essentials, or what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are |
| 46% | HEARTED | 7 | Word that can follow the starts of 11 answers in this puzzle |
| 46% | POLAROPPOSITE | 13 | One totally unlike another ... or what each answer on the edge of this puzzle has? |
| 45% | OPENFORBUSINESS | 15 | Sign outside a new store, or what the first words of 18-, 24-, 52-, and 59-Across can do? |
| 45% | RINGLEADER | 10 | Mastermind, and what the first word of 16-, 23-, 35-, or 45-Across can be |
| 44% | SPELLITOUT | 10 | Leave no room for misinterpretation ... or what the first words of the answers to the five starred clues do, literally |
| 44% | STARTUPBUSINESS | 15 | Fledgling enterprise ... and what the first word of the answers to starred clues can literally do |
| 44% | FLATFINISH | 10 | Paint choice ... and what the first word of the answers to starred clues can literally be |
| 43% | LOOPS | 5 | What the paths of three answers in this puzzle include |
| 43% | AHEAD | 5 | Winning ... or, read another way, what nine of ten answers in this puzzle have? |
| 43% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 43% | CUTFROMTHESAMECLOTH | 19 | Having similar qualities ... or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle are? |
| 43% | ONEL | 4 | First-year law student … or what every answer in this puzzle has exactly |
| 42% | FALLLEAVES | 10 | Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle? |
| 42% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 42% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 42% | SANDWICHSHOP | 12 | Its menu might include the ends of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | BANKOPENING | 11 | 9:00 AM weekday event, typically ... and what the first word in the answers to starred clues can be |
| 42% | AREYOUFORREAL | 13 | "Seriously?!" … or what one might ask of the answers to starred clues in this puzzle? |
| 42% | GRANDOPENING | 12 | Ribbon-cutting event, or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can have |
| 41% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 41% | SHOWERTHOUGHTS | 14 | Mundane musings, or what the last words of 20-, 32-, and 39-Across have in common? |
| 41% | BLACKOPS | 8 | Covert missions ... or what's covert in eight of this puzzle's answers |