| 100% | ACS | 3 | Coolers, briefly, that span two words in the nine longest answers |
| 42% | HAIR | 4 | Bisected word in the eight longest answers |
| 41% | THREE | 5 | Number of words in the four longest answers |
| 41% | IFSO | 4 | Word pair in the seven longest answers |
| 40% | BIRD | 4 | One word in the 10 longest answers, if one letter is changed |
| 40% | BAT | 3 | Something flipped after a walk-off home run ... and in the nine longest Down answers |
| 39% | RECYCLEDMETAL | 13 | Scrapyard commodity ... and what's hidden in the nine other longest puzzle answers |
| 37% | WIDESPREAD | 10 | What the other nine longest answers have in common |
| 36% | HEARTED | 7 | Word that can follow the starts of 11 answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | SPOONFEED | 9 | Longest common word in the English language ... that has its letters in reverse alphabetical order |
| 36% | NEWS | 4 | First letters of the words hidden in the four longest answers |
| 36% | CHOIR | 5 | Where else to find words hidden in the three longest answers |
| 36% | SHAKENBAKE | 10 | Breadcrumb coating brand ... or, as two words, what is found in the answers to starred clues |
| 36% | ETYMOLOGY | 9 | What the two words in each starred answer have in common with each other |
| 35% | TIME | 4 | Word that can be ''framed'' by the longest Across answers |
| 35% | WEPT | 4 | Second of two words in the shortest Bible verse |
| 35% | STATELINE | 9 | Geographic demarcation that separates the two possible answers in this puzzle's circled squares |
| 34% | FEEL | 4 | Hiding what you __ (what the nine longest answers are doing) |
| 34% | SOX | 3 | Word in the names of two baseball teams |
| 34% | DAKOTA | 6 | Word in the names of two US states |
| 34% | SOX | 3 | Word in the names of two MLB teams |
| 34% | HOMESTRETCH | 11 | Hint to what the other nine longest answers have in common |
| 34% | SAN | 3 | Word in the names of two Central American capitals |
| 34% | ICE | 3 | Word in the center of all three long entries |
| 33% | OPERA | 5 | Word in the title of Broadway's longest-running show |
| 33% | SOX | 3 | Word in the names of two American League baseball teams |
| 33% | INE | 3 | Common word-ending letters that can be pronounced five ways, as demonstrated in five long puzzle answers |
| 33% | TOGO | 4 | Pair in the seven longest answers |
| 33% | SOX | 3 | Second word in the names of two MLB teams |