| 100% | ASUNBURNEDPANDA | 15 | Answer to another spelling of the riddle |
| 82% | THISNEWSPAPER | 13 | Answer to one spelling of the riddle |
| 59% | MAN | 3 | Answer to the riddle of the Sphinx |
| 55% | ASMILE | 6 | Answer to the riddle "What can someone wear that never goes out of style?" |
| 53% | NEWSPAPER | 9 | Answer to an old riddle alluded to by the starts of 17-, 32-, 42- and 64-Across |
| 50% | BECAUSEPOEWROTE | 15 | Start of a possible answer to the riddle |
| 50% | HOMEFORTHEHOLLANDAISE | 21 | End of the riddle’s answer |
| 50% | THERESNOPLACELIKE | 17 | Start of the riddle’s answer |
| 50% | AFLATMINER | 10 | Answer to the riddle |
| 50% | IWOODPINEFIRYEW | 15 | Answer to the riddle |
| 49% | MAN | 3 | Answer to the Sphinx's Riddle |
| 48% | ATE | 3 | Verb in the answer to the riddle "Why is 6 afraid of 7?" |
| 48% | ATE | 3 | Verb in the answer to the riddle "Why was 6 afraid of 7?" |
| 48% | ASMALL | 6 | With 52-Across, answer to the riddle |
| 48% | BOOBERRYPIEAND | 14 | With 60-Across, answer to the riddle |
| 47% | NEIN | 4 | Answer to "Is Bonn the capital of Deutschland?" |
| 47% | EDAM | 4 | Answer to the riddle "What cheese is made backward?" |
| 47% | APIN | 4 | Answer to the folk riddle "Big head, no hair" |
| 47% | ABEE | 4 | Answer to the folk riddle "Worker in yellow clothes" |
| 47% | ATREE | 5 | Answer to the folk riddle "One leg, many hands" |
| 47% | MIXEDMETAPHOR | 13 | Answer to each of the six starred clues, literally |
| 46% | INTENSIVE | 9 | Part of the answer to 36-Down |
| 46% | ATREE | 5 | Answer to the riddle "Dressed in summer, naked in winter" |
| 45% | ACRONYM | 7 | Basis of the answer to each starred clue, commonly |
| 45% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Coiner of the answers to the nine starred clues |
| 45% | ENGLISH | 7 | Language of the answers to this puzzle's uniclues |
| 45% | ABC | 3 | Another way of referring to the alphabet |
| 45% | ROAD | 4 | Answer to the riddle "What can go up and down without moving?" |
| 45% | ATREE | 5 | Answer to the joke: "What has lots of bark, but no bite?" |
| 45% | SACCADE | 7 | Rapid movement of the eye from one point to another |