| 100% | THE | 3 | Article that doesn’t appear in any of this puzzle’s clues |
| 64% | THE | 3 | Word that appears in ten of this puzzle's clues |
| 56% | KUE | 3 | Letter that doesn't appear in this puzzle |
| 55% | ERR | 3 | Use the answer to any of this puzzle's starred clues in ordinary conversation? |
| 44% | TEN | 3 | Number of mispelled words in this puzzle's clues (oh, by the way, watch out for those tricky circled squares!) |
| 43% | PUN | 3 | Any of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 43% | TEN | 3 | Number of clues in this puzzle that contain factual inaccuracies |
| 43% | MONTH | 5 | Any of 12 represented in this puzzle's shaded squares |
| 42% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 41% | PRINCESS | 8 | Any of the four people disturbed in this puzzle |
| 41% | PUNCTUATIONMARK | 15 | Any of the groupings of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 40% | HAL | 3 | Name that's one of the halves of a word in this clue |
| 40% | ACROSS | 6 | Like approximately half of this puzzle’s clues, directionally |
| 40% | DOUBLENEGATIVE | 14 | Grammatical faux pas seen in four of this puzzle’s clues . . . and, in a different way, their answers? |
| 40% | EGS | 3 | This puzzle's clues have two of them |
| 39% | KANGAROOWORD | 12 | Dictionary term for any of the "self-defining" answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | EIGHT | 5 | Number of words that are in this clue |
| 39% | EGS | 3 | I'm happy to say that there are none of these in this puzzle's clues! |
| 38% | INVISIBLEINK | 12 | What six of this puzzle's clues have been written with? |
| 38% | COIN | 4 | With 55-Down, actions that can be performed nine times in this puzzle without affecting any of the clues? |
| 38% | SPOTREMOVER | 11 | Product used on four of this puzzle's clues |
| 38% | ICETEA | 6 | Long Island drink that doesn't have any of the stuff after which it's named |
| 38% | USA | 3 | Ryder Cup team that all of this puzzle's featured athletes played for in 2018 (Abbr.) |
| 38% | EWE | 3 | Homophone of a vowel that appears nowhere in this answer |
| 37% | SPELLEDOUT | 10 | Explained in great detail ... or what four of this puzzle's clues are? |
| 37% | FALLINGDOWN | 11 | Like the contents of this puzzle's circled squares, in a nursery rhyme |
| 37% | LATERALSYMMETRY | 15 | Feature of this puzzle's grid and the answers to the six starred clues |
| 37% | INONESENSE | 10 | Description of this puzzle's circled letters, and a clue to what they spell |
| 37% | JRRTOLKIENSTHE | 14 | With 55-Across, source of this puzzle's quote (which starts in box #38) |
| 37% | PUBLICEDUCATION | 15 | What this puzzle's four missing clues spell, in order |