| 100% | ORANGEBOWL | 10 | Answer to 39-Down [Sports & Leisure] |
| 57% | POINTTAKEN | 10 | Possible answer to 39-Across |
| 57% | UNDERSTOOD | 10 | Possible answer to 39-Across |
| 57% | ROGERTHAT | 9 | Possible answer to 39-Across |
| 57% | DULYNOTED | 9 | Possible answer to 39-Across |
| 49% | ROAD | 4 | Answer to the riddle "What can go up and down without moving?" |
| 48% | UPS | 3 | Paradoxical answer to appear among the Downs in a crossword |
| 48% | IDIG | 4 | Answer to 10-Down |
| 48% | SAS | 3 | Airline to 39-Down |
| 47% | PESSIMIST | 9 | One who identifies with the answers to the starred Down clues |
| 47% | YELLOWSEA | 9 | Answer to 13-Down [History] |
| 47% | THREEPEATS | 10 | Features of the answers to starred clues, from a trademarked sports term |
| 45% | UPSELL | 6 | What the clues for 4-, 8-, 10-, 28- and 39-Down are trying to do, and what their answers feature |
| 44% | TACKLING | 8 | In sport, taking down an opponent to stop the ball |
| 44% | FLYINGSTART | 11 | What the answers to 17-, 26-, 37-, 39- and 52-Across are all off to? |
| 44% | KARATE | 6 | Sport whose belt levels, from beginning to advanced, appear in the starred answers |
| 43% | SPEAKUP | 7 | "Louder!"...and a clue to the starts of four Down answers |
| 43% | BERRY | 5 | Word to "hang" from the last word of each long Down answer |
| 42% | LOWHANGINGFRUIT | 15 | Easy pickings, and a hint to the four other longest Down answers |
| 42% | OVERUNDER | 9 | Sports bet based on total points scored ... or a hint to answering four puzzle clues |
| 42% | FIRSTTWOLETTERS | 15 | What each Down answer needs from its clue in order to make sense |
| 41% | UNDER | 5 | Answering to |
| 41% | DOTTHEI/DOTS | 12 | Attend to details ... or a hint to entering six Down answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | SKYFALL | 7 | 2012 Bond film ... or a hint to six other Down answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | RISINGSEALEVELS | 15 | One effect of global warming, and a hint to the five longest Down answers |
| 41% | DISAPPEARINGINK | 15 | Medium for secret messages, and a hint to making sense of 12 Down answers |
| 40% | RAISON | 6 | Answer to "Pourquoi?" |
| 40% | PREGO | 5 | Answer to "grazie" |
| 40% | YESISEE | 7 | Answer to "Capisce?" |
| 40% | DENADA | 6 | Answer to "Gracias" |