| 100% | STRIPTEASE | 10 | Burlesque act, or read phonetically, how to make phrases like five in this puzzle |
| 53% | TAKESCOVER | 10 | Shelters, or (with another space) makes phrases like five in this puzzle |
| 49% | SEVERAL | 7 | Four or five, or how to make the theme answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | ALPHABETICALLY | 14 | How to link the 12 letters in this puzzle with a single line to make a picture |
| 36% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Pixar film whose title suggests how to read five answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle |
| 34% | FLIPONESLID | 11 | Go crazy ... or a hint on how to enter five answers in this puzzle |
| 32% | CLOCKWISE | 9 | How this puzzle's grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues, when written in 17-Across |
| 31% | UPSIDEDOWN | 10 | How to read the "words" written on this puzzle's 108-Across |
| 31% | RIGHTONCUE | 10 | Prompt ... or a hint to entering five answers in this puzzle |
| 31% | IMPROVISE | 9 | To make up on the spot, e.g. in acting or comedy |
| 31% | TOPTOBOTTOM | 11 | With 54-Across, how to read this puzzle's secret message |
| 30% | MAKEYOURWAY | 11 | With 26-Down, how to succeed in business, and a hint to this puzzle |
| 30% | PERFECT | 7 | Change a word in this phrase to correct it! "Practice makes flawless" |
| 30% | WASTE | 5 | Change a word in this phrase to correct it! "Haste makes trash" |
| 30% | DOORWAY | 7 | Portal represented 20 times in this puzzle that lets you in and out of a confined space (Note: These special letters, reading left to right, row by row, will produce an apt four-word phrase) |
| 30% | AQUATIC | 7 | Like the five animals in this puzzle's theme |
| 30% | DEJECTION | 9 | Sadness ... or, read another way, what five puzzle answers have in common |
| 29% | REDEFINED | 9 | Like nine words in this puzzle, or what their first letters spell out |
| 29% | SPILLTHEB | 9 | Blab ... or a literal hint to completing five answers in this puzzle |
| 29% | ITGOESWITHOUTSAYING | 19 | "We all see the obvious here, right?," and how to make six long answers in this puzzle match their clues? |
| 29% | ENDLESSLY | 9 | On and on ... or how to read 18-, 27-, 37- and 51-Across to understand this puzzle's theme? |
| 29% | FIRSTLETTER | 11 | Important part of each reversed book title in this puzzle (which you can use to spell out an apt phrase) |
| 28% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| 28% | COLORFULCHARACTER | 17 | Interesting person ... or what's included, phonetically, five times in this puzzle |
| 28% | EASYONTHEEYES | 13 | Good-looking ... or a phonetic hint to a feature found five times in this puzzle |
| 28% | EVENSOUT | 8 | Balances, or, phonetically, how to make 18-, 32-, and 39-Across match their clues? |
| 28% | DARKARTS | 8 | What sorcerers practice ... or a hint to interpreting five clues in this puzzle |
| 28% | PUTONTHESPOT | 12 | Pressured, or what five squares in this puzzle do |
| 28% | MICROLOANS | 10 | Money to start small businesses ... or a hint to five squares in this puzzle |