| 100% | THISNEWSPAPER | 13 | Answer to one spelling of the riddle |
| 82% | ASUNBURNEDPANDA | 15 | Answer to another spelling of the riddle |
| 59% | MAN | 3 | Answer to the riddle of the Sphinx |
| 55% | STAMP | 5 | Answer to the riddle "What stays in one corner but travels around the world?" |
| 55% | ASHIP | 5 | Answer to the riddle “I have one bow but no arrows. What am I?” |
| 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 |
| 52% | HIPPOLYTA | 9 | One spelling of the Grecian queen of the Amazons |
| 52% | ATREE | 5 | Answer to the folk riddle "One leg, many hands" |
| 52% | RISINGSEALEVELS | 15 | One effect of global warming, and a hint to the five longest Down answers |
| 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% | ISNOT | 5 | One side of a childish debate ... or a phonetic hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| 49% | EXERCISEYOURRIGHT | 17 | Vote, say, and a clue to one side of the asterisked answers |
| 49% | LEADDETECTIVES | 14 | Ones in charge of a case ... or a literal hint to the eight other longest answers in this puzzle |
| 49% | MOUNTAINCLIMBER | 15 | One who encounters the last parts of the answers to the starred clues on the way up |
| 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 |
| 48% | INA | 3 | With 60-Down, on one's game ... and hint to the start of this puzzle's longest answers |
| 48% | PANACEA | 7 | Answer to all of one's problems |
| 48% | LOCAL | 5 | Confined to one part of the body |
| 47% | NEIN | 4 | Answer to "Is Bonn the capital of Deutschland?" |
| 47% | MYMAN | 5 | Greeting to one of the boys |
| 47% | EDAM | 4 | Answer to the riddle "What cheese is made backward?" |