| 100% | ANDS | 4 | Connectors appropriate to this puzzle |
| 72% | ANIL | 4 | Dye color appropriate to this puzzle |
| 72% | GUNGHAYFATCHOY | 14 | Annual greeting appropriate to this puzzle |
| 72% | APRIL | 5 | Deadline time appropriate to this puzzle |
| 71% | AMENCORNERS | 11 | Parts of churches appropriate to this puzzle |
| 70% | PANDA | 5 | National ___ Day (March 16 observance, appropriate to this puzzle) |
| 67% | SENDINTHECLOWNS | 15 | Song from Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" appropriate to this puzzle |
| 61% | MRT | 3 | Actor whose name is appropriate to appear in this puzzle |
| 58% | STPATRICKSDAY | 13 | Occasion pertinent to this puzzle |
| 57% | TENPM | 5 | Appropriate time to solve this puzzle? |
| 57% | THEME | 5 | Hangouts, to this puzzle |
| 56% | ZEE | 3 | Appropriate letter to end this puzzle on |
| 53% | DOUBLEPLAY | 10 | Hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 53% | CMINOR | 6 | Key to this puzzle's theme? |
| 52% | INROMEDOASTHEROMANSDO | 21 | Proverb giving a clue to this puzzle |
| 52% | LECARRE | 7 | Author connected to this puzzle's theme |
| 52% | BAHHOMBURG | 10 | Hat-hater's response to this puzzle? |
| 52% | GETOVERIT | 9 | Punny advice to this puzzle's subject |
| 52% | ARIA | 4 | Solo appropriate for this puzzle |
| 51% | TICS | 4 | Idiosyncrasies added to this puzzle's longest answers |
| 51% | ARM | 3 | It's connected to this puzzle's theme |
| 51% | OFGRAY | 6 | ...and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 51% | END | 3 | This clue, to this puzzle |
| 50% | THREEMUSKETEERS | 15 | Group with a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 50% | SPUNAROUND | 10 | Like the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 50% | TENK | 4 | Certain race ... or a cryptic title to this puzzle |
| 50% | TICTACTOEISAMID | 15 | First line of a couplet pertinent to this puzzle |
| 50% | ONAMARCH | 8 | Parading ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 50% | NATIONALPASTIME | 15 | Baseball ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 50% | ADDICT | 6 | Fiend … or a hint to this puzzle's theme |