| 100% | USEYOURNOODLE | 13 | Best way to solve this puzzle |
| 64% | ANAGRAMTHE | 10 | Trap #1 to solving this puzzle |
| 63% | TENPM | 5 | Appropriate time to solve this puzzle? |
| 62% | HAPPYFACE | 9 | Response to solving this puzzle |
| 60% | FREEASSOCIATION | 15 | How to solve this puzzle's starred clues |
| 60% | UTURN | 5 | One of four required to solve this puzzle |
| 59% | POPINJAYS | 9 | Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle) |
| 58% | AIRLIFTS | 8 | Some special deliveries, and a hint to solving this puzzle |
| 58% | CROPROTATION | 12 | Common farming technique ... or a hint to solving this puzzle |
| 57% | FOLLOWDIRECTIONS | 16 | What one must do using the circled letters to solve this puzzle |
| 57% | CHANGETHESUBJECT | 16 | Switch topics, and a hint to solving this puzzle's theme answers |
| 56% | ININK | 5 | Confident way to solve newspaper puzzles |
| 56% | CROSS | 5 | With 57-Across, what you must do four times to solve this puzzle |
| 56% | PARESDOWN | 9 | Gradually trims … or a phonetic second hint to solving this puzzle's theme |
| 55% | PICTUREIT | 9 | Tip to solving this puzzle (with the key parts to be said out loud) |
| 54% | FIVETIMESFAST | 13 | Hard way to say the answers to the starred clues in this puzzle (good luck!) |
| 54% | DOWN | 4 | Look ___ (advice on how to solve this puzzle contest, assuming you're not solving on paper) |
| 52% | DROPABEAT | 9 | Trick to solving the shaded answers in this puzzle |
| 52% | LATIN | 5 | Good language to know for this puzzle |
| 51% | KNOCKOUTGAS | 11 | Incapacitating agent of pulp detective and sci-fi novels ... and a hint to solving this puzzle's starred clues |
| 51% | WORKAROUNDS | 11 | Ways to sidestep obstacles, and what are found in this puzzle's circles |
| 49% | INSIDETHELINES | 14 | Tidy way to color … and where seven words are hiding in this puzzle? |
| 49% | ITSDISCONNECTED | 15 | "Check the plug!" (and a hint to solving four rows in this puzzle) |
| 49% | DROPZONE | 8 | Certain delivery location, and a hint to solving six answers in this puzzle |
| 49% | OUTSIDETHEBOX | 13 | How you have to think to solve this puzzle |
| 49% | PUT2AND2TOGETHER | 16 | Solve this puzzle |
| 48% | FRUITLESSLY | 11 | How I hope you don't try to solve most contest crosswords...except this puzzle |
| 48% | INSIDE | 6 | With 71-Across, one way to think (with a hint to this puzzle's theme) |
| 48% | NOW | 3 | While you're solving this puzzle |
| 48% | NOW | 3 | As you're solving this puzzle |