| 100% | RAILROADED | 10 | Convicted hastily and unfairly ... or, in a way, like the four other longest puzzle answers? |
| 50% | POSTHASTE | 9 | With immediacy, or a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 50% | KITCHENMATCH | 12 | Pilot lighter, and a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 49% | SCARYMOVIETWO | 13 | 2001 Wayans Brothers sequel, and a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 47% | POLESAPART | 10 | In complete opposition ... and a feature of the four other longest answers |
| 47% | HAMMEDITUP | 10 | Went all out on stage ... or a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 45% | HIDDENTAX | 9 | Income-reducing inequity, or what can be found in the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 45% | NINETOFIVEJOBS | 14 | Predictable work ... and, in a way, what the other three longest answers are? |
| 44% | DONUT | 5 | Treat whose varieties appear at the starts of four long answers and are represented a dozen times in this puzzle |
| 42% | LOWHANGINGFRUIT | 15 | Easy pickings, and a hint to the four other longest Down answers |
| 42% | NOWYOUSEEITNOWYOUDONT | 21 | Magic words … or a hint to the other long answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | DOUBLEDOWN | 10 | Gamble boldly, in a way … or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's italicized clues |
| 41% | PER | 3 | A pop, and what's hiding in this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 41% | NOGO | 4 | Canceled, like a mission ... or like four answers in this puzzle? |
| 40% | NONOS | 5 | Taboos, and a hint to the four longest puzzle answers |
| 40% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 40% | NOPE | 4 | Casual refusal ... and, another way, a hint to this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 39% | EMPTYWORDS | 10 | Blather, and a phonetic hint to the four other longest answers |
| 39% | DEUCESWILD | 10 | Card game declaration, and a hint to what can be found in the four other longest answers |
| 39% | MEAT | 4 | Filler in a deli sandwich (and in the four longest Across answers) |
| 38% | SHAPESHIFTERS | 13 | Amorphous sci-fi beings, and a hint to what's hidden in the four other longest answers |
| 38% | RECYCLEDMETAL | 13 | Scrapyard commodity ... and what's hidden in the nine other longest puzzle answers |
| 38% | THROW | 5 | Light bed cover ... and a verb that goes with the first parts of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 38% | MISPELLED | 9 | Like the six longest answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | BENTOUTOFSHAPE | 14 | Upset ... and what can be found in the four other longest answers? |
| 37% | ALL | 3 | With 36-Down and 38-Across, Blink-182 hit song, and a description of four long answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | RAISEMONEY | 10 | Get support, in a way ... and what the puzzle circles do |
| 37% | TUMBLEWEEDS | 11 | Drifters in some Western scenes ... and a hint to what's hidden in the three other longest puzzle answers |
| 37% | PIGEONHOLES | 11 | Typecasts, in a way ... or a hint to four squares in this puzzle |
| 37% | WANNABET | 8 | "Care to wager?" ... and a question answered, one way or the other, by the first words of the answers to starred clues |