| 100% | GETBENTOUTOFSHA | 15 | Blow a gasket, and a clue to making sense of some answers in this puzzle |
| 75% | IRONCLAD | 8 | Unbreakable, and a hint to making sense of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 74% | POPUPAD | 7 | Bit of Web clutter, and a hint to making sense of four answers in this puzzle |
| 73% | FLOWER | 6 | Garden sight, and, if reparsed, a hint to making sense of 10 answers in this puzzle |
| 63% | CIRCLESBACK | 11 | Brings up a prior topic … or a hint to making sense of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 58% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 57% | TRIMTHETREE | 11 | Decorate for Christmas, in a way, and how to make sense of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 56% | SEEMEAFTERCLASS | 15 | Ominous message at the top of a returned assignment ... and a hint to the beginning of four answers in this puzzle? |
| 56% | LITTLEHELPHERE | 14 | "I could use some assistance" ... and a hint to the contents of three squares in this puzzle |
| 55% | CRISES | 6 | Dire situations, and, if reparsed, a clue to making sense of six pairs of Across answers |
| 55% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 53% | SECRET | 6 | With 46-Across, some areas in Clue … or a hint to the first, fourth, twelfth and fifteenth rows of this puzzle |
| 53% | TAKEALETTER | 11 | Dictator's order, and how to make sense of the answers to the starred clues, in two ways |
| 52% | PCS | 3 | Some laptops, and a hint to five long answers in this puzzle |
| 52% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
| 52% | GEARSHIFT | 9 | Auto part, and a clue to what's going on in five rows of this puzzle |
| 52% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |
| 51% | TORISPELLING | 12 | Author of a bestselling 2008 autobiography, and a hint to some pictographs in this puzzle |
| 51% | TWOSTATESOLUTION | 16 | Topic of international negotiations ... and a hint to every four-letter answer in this puzzle |
| 51% | CONDENSEDMILK | 13 | Ingredient of sweetened Thai tea, and a hint to solving some squares in this puzzle |
| 51% | WRAPSUP | 7 | Finishes, and a hint to the sets of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 51% | CONNECTSTHEDOTS | 15 | Makes sense of a situation ... and, literally, what the quartet of answers to starred clues does |
| 51% | INTHECROSSHAIRS | 15 | Fixed as a target ... or a hint to four pairs of intersecting answers in this puzzle |
| 51% | SYMBIOTIC | 9 | Mutually beneficial … or a hint to three pairs of crossing answers in this puzzle |
| 51% | AROUND | 6 | Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make sense |
| 51% | GRECOROMAN | 10 | Kind of wrestling ... or a hint to four pairs of crossing answers in this puzzle |
| 51% | MAKEA | 5 | With 69- and 70-Across, get to the point . . . or what you’ll need to do with some of the answers in this puzzle? |
| 50% | PIGOUT | 6 | Ingurgitate, and a hint to making sense of the starred clues |
| 50% | FRIENDSWITHBENEFITS | 19 | Relationship featuring casual intimacy … or a hint to six pairs of intersecting answers in this puzzle |
| 50% | RAINOUT | 7 | Ballpark bummer, and a hint to making sense of the starred answers |