| 100% | SQUARES | 7 | Block shapes on this puzzle |
| 54% | HINT | 4 | Clue on this puzzle, say |
| 53% | SCRAMBLEBANDS | 13 | College musicians making shapes on the field, or do what this puzzle does to the once-recognizable starred phrases |
| 51% | KNOWSEVERYANGLE | 15 | Is an expert on this puzzle's theme? |
| 51% | OVOID | 5 | Shaped like this puzzle's subject |
| 50% | WITCH | 5 | Halloween figure who cast a spell on this puzzle |
| 50% | ASTEROID | 8 | What had a major impact on this puzzle's theme? |
| 48% | ZEE | 3 | Appropriate letter to end this puzzle on |
| 48% | WORD | 4 | With 72-Across, what the answers on this puzzle's perimeter form |
| 48% | UPSIDEDOWN | 10 | How to read the "words" written on this puzzle's 108-Across |
| 47% | CURRENCY | 8 | What 15 answers in this puzzle appear on |
| 47% | TABLETS | 7 | Moses got 10 commandments on these stone blocks |
| 47% | DRANO | 5 | This may work on your block |
| 47% | WALLFLOWERS | 11 | Shy sorts, with a hint to the answers on this puzzle's perimeter |
| 46% | SCRAMBLES | 9 | What all the answers on this puzzle's 37-Across are to each other |
| 46% | EDSULLIVAN | 10 | Host for this puzzle's subjects on 2/9/64 |
| 45% | ITSAZOOOUTTHERE | 15 | Comment about heavy traffic ... and a hint to the entries on this puzzle's border |
| 45% | LIVINGONTHEEDGE | 15 | Taking lots of risks ... and a hint to the entries on this puzzle's border |
| 43% | WORLDSTALLESTSKYSCRAPER | 23 | The subject of this puzzle, on 5/1/31, the day it opened |
| 43% | CAT | 3 | One of six hidden in this puzzle, each sitting on an apt location |
| 43% | MONDAY | 6 | Yesterday, if you're solving this puzzle on the day it came out |
| 43% | TOTALLY | 7 | With 45-Down, "Radical, dude!" (and a hint to this puzzle's shape) |
| 42% | THREE | 5 | Number of squares in the width and height of this puzzle's city blocks |
| 42% | AINTTHATTHEPITS | 15 | "Man, what a bummer!"...and a hint to four of this puzzle's blocks |
| 41% | STATELINES | 10 | Borders represented four times in this puzzle — both in the grid and on a map |
| 41% | YESTERDAY | 9 | Song sung by this puzzle's subjects on 6-Down's show on 9/12/65 |
| 41% | SHELOVESYOU | 11 | Song sung by this puzzle's subjects on 6-Down's show on 2/9/64 |
| 41% | VICTORFLEMING | 13 | Director of the eight starred films in this puzzle, who was born on 2/23/1889 |
| 40% | LIBERTYBELL | 11 | Historic symbol whose shape can be found hidden in this completed puzzle |
| 40% | WED | 3 | Weekday on which this puzzle was published: abbr. |