| 100% | TEASER | 6 | Brain __; challenging clue or word puzzle |
| 44% | SCAN | 4 | Word with price or brain |
| 44% | SCAN | 4 | Word with brain or price |
| 44% | PEA | 3 | Word with green or brain |
| 44% | MEIN | 4 | Words after count or clue |
| 44% | GETA | 4 | Words before grip or clue |
| 43% | CROSSWORD | 9 | Puzzle of intersecting words, short clues |
| 42% | HASNT | 5 | Word before "a prayer" or "a clue" |
| 42% | CRYPTIC | 7 | Puzzling or enigmatic, e.g. crossword clues |
| 41% | SIX | 3 | Words per clue in this puzzle |
| 40% | THE | 3 | Word that appears in ten of this puzzle's clues |
| 39% | WORKLIFEBALANCE | 15 | Challenge in a demanding job ... or a feature of this puzzle? |
| 39% | BRITISHISMS | 11 | Words found in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 38% | REBUS | 5 | Puzzle format that combines pictures with letters to depict words or phrases |
| 38% | FLIPSIDES | 9 | Opposites … or instructions for answering this puzzle's starred clues |
| 38% | FLIPFLOPPED | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 38% | MOVEDAROUND | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 38% | OUTOFORDER | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 38% | REARRANGED | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 37% | EAR | 3 | In one ___ and out the other (how a word may travel through someone's brain--or through this puzzle grid) |
| 37% | SKIPJACK | 8 | Certain tuna ... or what this puzzle's 10 starred clues do |
| 37% | KNOTS | 5 | Conundrums, or, if read as three words, this puzzle's theme |
| 37% | GREYMATTER | 10 | Brains ... or this puzzle's four shaded names? |
| 37% | PIECE | 5 | Word after "puzzle" or "period" |
| 37% | FLIPS | 5 | What each word of six or more letters in this puzzle does |
| 37% | PARALLELPARKING | 15 | Driving test challenge ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 37% | PUSMOTTOB | 9 | *"Cheers!" ... or a hint to answering this puzzle's five starred clues |
| 36% | CONJUNCTIONS | 12 | Linking words, or, parsed differently, configuration found four times in this puzzle |
| 36% | BEFOREHAND | 10 | In advance ... or where nine key words in this puzzle might appear |
| 36% | SEACREATURE | 11 | Aquatic denizen … or a phonetic hint to this puzzle's circled words |