| 100% | AJET | 4 | Answer to the riddle "The higher it goes, the less you hear it" |
| 45% | AJAR | 4 | Answer to the riddle "When is a door not a door? When it's ___" |
| 45% | ROAD | 4 | Answer to the riddle "What can go up and down without moving?" |
| 44% | ASMILE | 6 | Answer to the riddle "What can someone wear that never goes out of style?" |
| 42% | ASHEEP | 6 | Answer to the folk riddle "Over the hills, over the hills / Goes a fur coat" |
| 41% | OHIO | 4 | Answer to the old riddle "What's round on the sides and high in the middle?" |
| 41% | OHIO | 4 | Answer to the old riddle "What's round on the ends and high in the middle?" |
| 41% | OHIO | 4 | Answer to the old riddle, "What's high in the middle and round at both ends?" |
| 41% | OHIO | 4 | State that's the answer to the riddle "What's round at both ends and high in the middle?" |
| 41% | AFLATMINER | 10 | Answer to the riddle |
| 41% | IWOODPINEFIRYEW | 15 | Answer to the riddle |
| 41% | FSH | 3 | Answer to the riddle "What do you call a fish with no eyes?"... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 41% | MLB | 3 | Org. in which you'd hear the answers to starred clues |
| 40% | ESP | 3 | It would allow you to know the answer to this clue without even reading it |
| 40% | ISO | 3 | You might go to the Hilbert Circle Theatre on Monument Circle to hear this (abbr.) |
| 39% | MAN | 3 | Answer to the riddle of the Sphinx |
| 39% | BAREMINIMUM | 11 | It's the least you can do |
| 39% | TAGLINE | 7 | "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water," e.g. |
| 38% | EDAM | 4 | Answer to the riddle "What cheese is made backward?" |
| 38% | ASMALL | 6 | With 52-Across, answer to the riddle |
| 38% | BOOBERRYPIEAND | 14 | With 60-Across, answer to the riddle |
| 38% | ATREE | 5 | Answer to the riddle "Dressed in summer, naked in winter" |
| 38% | BECAUSEPOEWROTE | 15 | Start of a possible answer to the riddle |
| 38% | BEAUFORTSCALE | 13 | The higher this goes, the more it blows |
| 38% | OWL | 3 | *When you hear the ___ hooting at night, it's an indication that it's time to sleep! |
| 38% | MAN | 3 | Answer to the Sphinx's Riddle |
| 38% | NOTI | 4 | Answer to the Little Red Hen |
| 38% | JAR | 3 | "When it's a ___" (answer to the riddle "When is a door not a door?") |
| 37% | LOTION | 6 | "Did you hear about the poet who liked to dip his work in moisturizer? It was poetry in ___" |
| 36% | APIN | 4 | Answer to the folk riddle "Big head, no hair" |