| 100% | BLACKOPS | 8 | Covert missions ... or what's covert in eight of this puzzle's answers |
| 76% | UTTERNONSENSE | 13 | What you find in eight of this puzzle's answers...or what you do when you say them aloud? |
| 68% | HALFTHEBATTLE | 13 | Important part of an undertaking . . . or what can be found in eight of this puzzle’s answers? |
| 67% | FALLLEAVES | 10 | Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle? |
| 65% | COLORPICTURES | 13 | Photos not in shades of gray ... or what eight answers in this puzzle are? |
| 64% | SUN | 3 | Space heater, or what's hiding in 2 of this puzzle's squares |
| 61% | CUTFROMTHESAMECLOTH | 19 | Having similar qualities ... or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle are? |
| 61% | AFTERTHOUGHT | 12 | “P.S.” comment ... or where the ends of eight answers in this puzzle might appear? |
| 60% | STRETCHGOAL | 11 | Crowdfunding target, and what can be found in three of this puzzle's answers |
| 60% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |
| 59% | PAPAS | 5 | Half of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answers |
| 59% | MAMAS | 5 | Half of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answers |
| 59% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 59% | THEDARKSIDE | 11 | Where Darth Vader gets his strength ... or what eight answers in this puzzle share |
| 59% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 59% | TURNSOFPHRASE | 13 | Distinctive ways to express things, or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle could be said to constitute |
| 58% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 57% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 57% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Basketball stat, and what can be found in six of this puzzle's long answers |
| 57% | CANADIANPROVINCE | 16 | What each of the 10 abbreviations in this puzzle's answer stands for |
| 57% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 57% | NERVOUSWRECK | 12 | Epitome of anxiety ... or what's hidden in three puzzle answers? |
| 57% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 57% | AHEAD | 5 | Winning ... or, read another way, what nine of ten answers in this puzzle have? |
| 57% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 56% | AREYOUFORREAL | 13 | "Seriously?!" … or what one might ask of the answers to starred clues in this puzzle? |
| 56% | QUADRUPLEDOUBLE | 15 | Super-rare basketball feat ... or what each of six long answers in this puzzle contains |
| 56% | BREAKTHESOUNDBARRIER | 20 | Hit Mach I … or a hint to answering eight pairs of consecutive entries in this puzzle |
| 55% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 55% | DNA | 3 | Building block of life, and what's hidden in this puzzle's 4 longest answers |