| 100% | TENPM | 5 | Appropriate time to solve this puzzle? |
| 73% | CROSS | 5 | With 57-Across, what you must do four times to solve this puzzle |
| 65% | USEYOURNOODLE | 13 | Best way to solve this puzzle |
| 65% | ANAGRAMTHE | 10 | Trap #1 to solving this puzzle |
| 64% | APRIL | 5 | Deadline time appropriate to this puzzle |
| 63% | HAPPYFACE | 9 | Response to solving this puzzle |
| 61% | FREEASSOCIATION | 15 | How to solve this puzzle's starred clues |
| 61% | UTURN | 5 | One of four required to solve this puzzle |
| 60% | POPINJAYS | 9 | Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle) |
| 60% | INAILEDIT | 9 | Appropriate exclamation upon solving this puzzle? |
| 59% | AIRLIFTS | 8 | Some special deliveries, and a hint to solving this puzzle |
| 59% | CROPROTATION | 12 | Common farming technique ... or a hint to solving this puzzle |
| 58% | ZEE | 3 | Appropriate letter to end this puzzle on |
| 58% | FOLLOWDIRECTIONS | 16 | What one must do using the circled letters to solve this puzzle |
| 58% | CHANGETHESUBJECT | 16 | Switch topics, and a hint to solving this puzzle's theme answers |
| 57% | PARESDOWN | 9 | Gradually trims … or a phonetic second hint to solving this puzzle's theme |
| 56% | PICTUREIT | 9 | Tip to solving this puzzle (with the key parts to be said out loud) |
| 56% | MONTHOFMAY | 10 | Apt time to recognize this puzzle's honoree |
| 55% | USETHEON/OFFSWITCH | 18 | Add light, or not (and do this 13 more times to solve this puzzle) |
| 55% | DOWN | 4 | Look ___ (advice on how to solve this puzzle contest, assuming you're not solving on paper) |
| 53% | INTHECORNER | 11 | This puzzle's answer to 35-Across (spelled out four times) |
| 53% | DROPABEAT | 9 | Trick to solving the shaded answers in this puzzle |
| 52% | KNOCKOUTGAS | 11 | Incapacitating agent of pulp detective and sci-fi novels ... and a hint to solving this puzzle's starred clues |
| 52% | UTURN | 5 | Maneuver required five times to finish this puzzle |
| 51% | ANIL | 4 | Dye color appropriate to this puzzle |
| 51% | GUNGHAYFATCHOY | 14 | Annual greeting appropriate to this puzzle |
| 50% | ITSDISCONNECTED | 15 | "Check the plug!" (and a hint to solving four rows in this puzzle) |
| 50% | DROPZONE | 8 | Certain delivery location, and a hint to solving six answers in this puzzle |
| 50% | OUTSIDETHEBOX | 13 | How you have to think to solve this puzzle |
| 50% | NEWYEARSEVE | 11 | Time to sing the tune suggested by the starts of 10 long answers in this puzzle |