| 100% | TIME | 4 | Answer to Gollum's riddle in "The Hobbit" "This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers ..." |
| 93% | TIME | 4 | Answer to Gollum's riddle in "The Hobbit," which starts "This thing all things devours — birds, beasts, trees, flowers" |
| 39% | BIRDS | 5 | Things hidden in the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues |
| 33% | OHIO | 4 | Answer to the old riddle "What's round on the sides and high in the middle?" |
| 33% | OHIO | 4 | Answer to the old riddle "What's round on the ends and high in the middle?" |
| 33% | OHIO | 4 | Answer to the old riddle, "What's high in the middle and round at both ends?" |
| 33% | ACROSS | 6 | How the answer to this clue goes in the grid |
| 33% | UPSIDEDOWN | 10 | How the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all appear |
| 33% | OXYMORONS | 9 | What the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all are |
| 33% | BRITISHISMS | 11 | Words found in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 32% | ABEE | 4 | Answer to the folk riddle "Worker in yellow clothes" |
| 32% | THEBRONTES | 10 | Literary trio found in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 32% | ATREE | 5 | Answer to the riddle "Dressed in summer, naked in winter" |
| 31% | ERR | 3 | Use the answer to any of this puzzle's starred clues in ordinary conversation? |
| 31% | ELIZA | 5 | With 78-Down, character commemorated in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 31% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 31% | ATSEA | 5 | Clueless ... or where the answers to this puzzle's starred clues were all first used |
| 31% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 31% | ITGOESWITHOUTSAYING | 19 | "We all see the obvious here, right?," and how to make six long answers in this puzzle match their clues? |
| 31% | ATREE | 5 | Answer to the old riddle "What wears more clothing in summer than in winter?" |
| 31% | SEERS | 5 | Experts in all things related to the future |
| 30% | DOUBLEDOWN | 10 | Gamble boldly, in a way … or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's italicized clues |
| 30% | TOPHAT | 6 | Something worn by the answer to each starred clue, as represented graphically in this puzzle's grid |
| 30% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 30% | EGG | 3 | Answer to this riddle from "The Hobbit": "A box without hinges, key or lid / Yet golden treasure inside is hid" |
| 30% | TWO | 3 | Number of consonants in the answer to this clue |
| 30% | SCRAMBLES | 9 | What all the answers on this puzzle's 37-Across are to each other |
| 30% | OHIO | 4 | State that's the answer to the riddle "What's round at both ends and high in the middle?" |
| 30% | NEST | 4 | Bird's home in the trees |
| 30% | FIVETIMESFAST | 13 | Hard way to say the answers to the starred clues in this puzzle (good luck!) |