| 100% | IDIG | 4 | Answer to 10-Down |
| 90% | DOUBLEBLIND | 11 | Kind of experiment ... or a hint to 10 Down answers in this puzzle |
| 72% | PLANTBASED | 10 | Like a meatless diet ... or like the answers to 3-, 7-, 10-, and 24-Down? |
| 71% | PAYUP | 5 | Settle a tab, and a feature of the answers to 3-, 6-, 10- and 30-Down |
| 69% | TFORTWO | 7 | Key to answering 16- and 58-Across and 10- and 27-Down |
| 67% | SUPERBOWLSUNDAY | 15 | Setting for the answers to the 10 starred clues |
| 67% | ROAD | 4 | Answer to the riddle "What can go up and down without moving?" |
| 66% | DATEANDTIME | 11 | Invitation info ... or two alternate endings for the starts of the answers to 18-Across, 10-Down and 24-Down |
| 66% | UPS | 3 | Paradoxical answer to appear among the Downs in a crossword |
| 65% | PESSIMIST | 9 | One who identifies with the answers to the starred Down clues |
| 65% | BUTWAITTHERESMORE | 17 | Infomercial line ... with a hint to 10 answers in this puzzle |
| 65% | VANDX | 5 | Roman variety store? (and a hint to 10 other puzzle answers) |
| 65% | SIDESALAD | 9 | Steak go-with, perhaps, and a hint to 10 puzzle answers |
| 64% | YELLOWSEA | 9 | Answer to 13-Down [History] |
| 63% | ORANGEBOWL | 10 | Answer to 39-Down [Sports & Leisure] |
| 62% | WHOLETTHEDOGSOUT | 16 | Hit song from 2000 ... and a hint to 10 symmetrically arranged Across answers |
| 62% | NOIFSANDSORBUTS | 15 | Emphatic instruction for entering the answers to this puzzle's 10 starred clues? |
| 61% | ROLE | 4 | 10-Down, to Matt Damon |
| 59% | SPEAKUP | 7 | "Louder!"...and a clue to the starts of four Down answers |
| 59% | UPSELL | 6 | What the clues for 4-, 8-, 10-, 28- and 39-Down are trying to do, and what their answers feature |
| 58% | BERRY | 5 | Word to "hang" from the last word of each long Down answer |
| 58% | LOWHANGINGFRUIT | 15 | Easy pickings, and a hint to the four other longest Down answers |
| 57% | BTU | 3 | Meas. roughly equivalent to 10 billion 12-Downs |
| 57% | FIRSTTWOLETTERS | 15 | What each Down answer needs from its clue in order to make sense |
| 57% | BAN | 3 | Successor of 10 Down |
| 57% | GRISSOM | 7 | One of 10 down |
| 57% | PATAGONIA | 9 | Part of 10 Down |
| 57% | EXCALIBUR | 9 | Sword of 10 Down |
| 57% | EEN | 3 | Scot's 10 Down |
| 57% | ALPACA | 6 | Relative of 10 Down |