| 100% | HAIR | 4 | Bisected word in the eight longest answers |
| 64% | NEWS | 4 | Consecutive letters in the eight longest answers, eight different ways |
| 63% | MMM | 3 | What the eight longest answers have in common |
| 62% | TALC | 4 | Soft rock found in the eight longest Across answers |
| 62% | IFSO | 4 | Word pair in the seven longest answers |
| 60% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 60% | THREE | 5 | Number of words in the four longest answers |
| 59% | BIRD | 4 | One word in the 10 longest answers, if one letter is changed |
| 52% | ACS | 3 | Coolers, briefly, that span two words in the nine longest answers |
| 52% | AND | 3 | What the puzzle's eight longest answers have in common |
| 51% | PHONETIC | 8 | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 50% | NEWS | 4 | First letters of the words hidden in the four longest answers |
| 50% | CHOIR | 5 | Where else to find words hidden in the three longest answers |
| 50% | SPREADTHIN | 10 | What's found in the other eight longest answers |
| 49% | ICE | 3 | Word in the center of all three long entries |
| 49% | CPAS | 4 | Summers found in the four longest answers |
| 49% | TOES | 4 | What's in the five longest answers |
| 49% | MAMA | 4 | Pair present in the seven longest answers |
| 49% | ABCDF | 5 | Tripled letters in the longest Across answers |
| 49% | OPERA | 5 | Word in the title of Broadway's longest-running show |
| 49% | GOBACKANDFORTH | 14 | Move like eight long answers in this puzzle |
| 49% | TOGO | 4 | Pair in the seven longest answers |
| 47% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |
| 47% | INFO | 4 | "Tips" found in the five longest answers |
| 47% | PASTTENSE | 9 | Like either word in the answers to the five starred clues |
| 46% | TOE | 3 | Stocking stuffer found in the long Across answers |
| 46% | HERO | 4 | One ''unsung'' in the three longest answers |
| 45% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 45% | YAM | 3 | Thanksgiving side dish found in the longest Across answers |
| 45% | DAD | 3 | Puzzle honoree found in eight long answers |