| 100% | INREVERSE | 9 | Backwards, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| 89% | LEGUP | 5 | Boost, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| 80% | INTHEDARK | 9 | Wild guess, and a hint to four of this puzzle's squares |
| 76% | SPILLTHETEA | 11 | "Give me some gossip!" ... and a hint to this puzzle's sets of circles, which affect four Across answers |
| 71% | INTHEHOLE | 9 | Warning before a detonation ... and a hint to 16 of this puzzle's answers |
| 71% | BANDE | 5 | Burglary, for short ... and a hint to this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 70% | KITTYCORNER | 11 | Diagonally ... or a hint to four of this puzzle's squares |
| 70% | DOUBLEDOWN | 10 | Strengthen one's commitment ... and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 70% | HANDSDOWN | 9 | Easily ... and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 69% | BODYOFWATER | 11 | Geographic feature, and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 69% | LIFTOFF | 7 | Launchpad event, and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 69% | RISINGSUN | 9 | 1992 Michael Crichton bestseller, and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 69% | TAKINGTHEPLUNGE | 15 | Acting after much hesitation, and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 68% | NOWYOUSEEITNOWYOUDONT | 21 | Magic words ... and a hint to four side-by-side pairs of puzzle answers |
| 68% | CORNERBARS | 10 | Local watering holes, and a hint to a word that can follow eight of this puzzle's peripheral answers |
| 68% | POPUPAD | 7 | Bit of Web clutter, and a hint to making sense of four answers in this puzzle |
| 68% | PANDL | 5 | CFO's monetary report, and a hint to this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 67% | AND | 3 | + ... with a hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 67% | TWOSTATESOLUTION | 16 | Topic of international negotiations ... and a hint to every four-letter answer in this puzzle |
| 67% | IRONCLAD | 8 | Unbreakable, and a hint to making sense of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 66% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |
| 66% | MINDOVERMATTER | 14 | Slogan about willpower ... or a hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 66% | AINTTHATTHEPITS | 15 | "Man, what a bummer!"...and a hint to four of this puzzle's blocks |
| 66% | WIRED | 5 | Tense with excitement ... and a hint to the ends of the four longest puzzle answers |
| 65% | SUGGESTIONBOXES | 15 | Slotted containers, and a clue to four of this puzzle's squares |
| 65% | PARADISELOST | 12 | John Milton epic, and a hint to how four long answers in this puzzle were formed |
| 65% | DOUBLEV | 7 | W.W. II-era campaign that helped usher in the civil rights movement … and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 64% | DOWNUNDER | 9 | Nickname for 18-Across, and a hint to how four answers in this puzzle are to be entered |
| 64% | TRIPOLI | 7 | Capital of Libya, and a phonetic hint to a feature of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 64% | SIDEARM | 7 | Like some baseball pitches ... and a hint to locating the second part of four three-part puzzle answers |