| 100% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Colleague of eight others who are hiding in this grid |
| 43% | SANTA | 5 | Owner of eight other answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | NINAS | 5 | 16 of these are hidden in the answer grid, each reading left, right, up, down or diagonally in an unbroken straight line |
| 40% | ANIMALCRACKERS | 14 | Lunchbox treat that contains the four beasts hidden in this grid, and what the starred answers literally are |
| 40% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |
| 40% | TEN | 3 | Number of eight-letter entries in this grid |
| 40% | ROW | 3 | One of eight in this grid |
| 39% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 39% | BRITISHPRIMEMINISTERS | 21 | Eight of their last names are featured in this puzzle |
| 38% | VICTORFLEMING | 13 | Director of the eight starred films in this puzzle, who was born on 2/23/1889 |
| 38% | TAFT | 4 | Ohio senator who was one of J.F.K.'s eight "Profiles in Courage" |
| 38% | JUSTICEGINSBURG | 15 | Subject of this puzzle, who once said "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you" |
| 38% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 38% | EUSTACE | 7 | Dandy Tilley, who is often seen wearing something found in eight squares in this puzzle |
| 38% | TWOPEASINAPOD | 13 | Similar people ... who are getting a little too close in six squares of this puzzle? |
| 38% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle |
| 37% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 36% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 36% | ICHIRO | 6 | Suzuki who will be the first Japanese player in the Baseball Hall of Fame when inducted this July |
| 36% | PETE | 4 | Trumpeter Minger (whose first name is hidden in this clue) |
| 36% | GANDHI | 6 | Who said "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others" |
| 36% | NOS | 3 | There are eight of these before "baby" in Elvis's "A Big Hunk o' Love" |
| 35% | MEL | 3 | Allen who was the first host of "This Week in Baseball" |
| 35% | BRIDES | 6 | There are more of these in the U.S. in October than any other month, surprisingly |
| 35% | QUI | 3 | Who is this in France |
| 35% | ARCHIEANDREWS | 13 | Pal of Jughead Jones who will die in one of his many comic book titles this July: 2 wds. |
| 35% | GUTHRIE | 7 | Woody —, US folk singer, composer of the song This Land is Your Land, who died in 1967 |
| 35% | NAWAB | 5 | The last of these in Bahawalpur was Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan V Abbasi, who reigned until 1956 |
| 35% | INSIDETHELINES | 14 | Tidy way to color … and where seven words are hiding in this puzzle? |
| 34% | YEN | 3 | Urge hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers |