| 100% | TENSEEXCHANGE | 13 | Back-and-forth involving seven pairs of words in this puzzle's starred answers |
| 43% | THINKQUICKLY | 12 | To understand this puzzle's theme, read the ends of the answers to the starred clues and ... |
| 42% | FISHTAIL | 8 | Swerve back and forth, as a car's rear end, or a feature of the answer to each starred clue |
| 41% | LATERALSYMMETRY | 15 | Feature of this puzzle's grid and the answers to the six starred clues |
| 41% | BRITISHISMS | 11 | Words found in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 41% | TMI | 3 | Response to oversharing found in this puzzle's starred answers |
| 41% | LAD | 3 | Youth found in this puzzle's seven longest answers |
| 41% | SECRET | 6 | When revealed in this puzzle, it reverses the meanings of the answers to the starred clues |
| 40% | BETWEENTHELINES | 15 | Where to look for hidden words in this puzzle's fifth and eleventh columns? |
| 40% | ONE | 3 | Number of Zs in this puzzle's answers |
| 40% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 40% | PARTTIMEJOB | 11 | Many a side hustle, and a description of seven of this puzzle's answers, in a way |
| 39% | ERR | 3 | Use the answer to any of this puzzle's starred clues in ordinary conversation? |
| 39% | DOUBLEHEADER | 12 | In 2020's MLB season, each game of one was seven innings ... and what each word of three long answers can have |
| 39% | LONG | 4 | Word interpreted literally in completing four of this puzzle's answers |
| 39% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter "C" |
| 39% | IRONCLAD | 8 | Unbreakable, and a hint to making sense of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 38% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 38% | ONTHELINE | 9 | In jeopardy ... and where the first words of the answers to starred clues can be found |
| 38% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Basketball feat suggested by this puzzle's pairs of theme answers, informally |
| 38% | TRANSFER | 8 | With 119 Across, one changing schools ... and what you must do between seven pairs of schools in this puzzle |
| 38% | IRATE | 5 | What nine key words in this puzzle are synonyms of |
| 38% | EDGEWISE | 8 | One way to get a word in ... and an aural hint to a feature of the starred clues' answers |
| 37% | TIMES | 5 | Square where the words in this puzzle's dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song's first verse |
| 37% | HARDC | 5 | It starts and ends seven answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | DNA | 3 | Building block of life, and what's hidden in this puzzle's 4 longest answers |
| 37% | LANDONTHEMOON | 13 | Arrive as astronauts did 7/20/69 ... and what's literally seen in seven pairs of puzzle answers |
| 37% | SALT | 4 | Theme of this puzzle, found in the answers to 21-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across |
| 36% | TEN | 3 | Number of one-voweled, seven-letter words in this puzzle |