| 100% | CONS | 4 | Disadvantages found in this puzzle's three longest Across answers ... |
| 60% | LAD | 3 | Youth found in this puzzle's seven longest answers |
| 60% | PESTS | 5 | Anagrammatic intruders in this puzzle's longest Across answers |
| 57% | NDA | 3 | Confidentiality contract initials found in this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 57% | DAD | 3 | Today's honoree, found in this puzzle's eight longest answers |
| 55% | TMI | 3 | Response to oversharing found in this puzzle's starred answers |
| 54% | YIDDISH | 7 | Source of the six longest Across answers in this puzzle |
| 54% | THREELETTERWORD | 15 | Something not found in this puzzle's answer |
| 51% | STICK | 5 | Feature of this puzzle's three long Down answers |
| 49% | STRETCHGOAL | 11 | Crowdfunding target, and what can be found in three of this puzzle's answers |
| 49% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Basketball stat, and what can be found in six of this puzzle's long answers |
| 48% | ABBY | 4 | ___ Wambach, teammate of this puzzle's three longest answers |
| 48% | YEN | 3 | Urge hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers |
| 48% | GDFR | 4 | 2015 Flo Rida hit whose letters can be found sequentially in this puzzle's three longest entries |
| 46% | TOOTHDECAY | 10 | Dental problem (illustrated by this puzzle's long Across answers) |
| 46% | RBI | 3 | Stat inserted into this puzzle's long Across answers |
| 46% | OPERA | 5 | Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one |
| 46% | PAPAS | 5 | Half of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answers |
| 46% | MAMAS | 5 | Half of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answers |
| 46% | BROKENBONES | 11 | Fractures found in this puzzle's circles |
| 45% | SALT | 4 | Theme of this puzzle, found in the answers to 21-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across |
| 45% | GEM | 3 | Stone that's "cut" in this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 45% | SIDESOFBEEF | 11 | Butchers' stock literally found in this puzzle's circles |
| 45% | ABS | 3 | "Six-pack" found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 45% | EPICENTER | 9 | Point hit hard by an earthquake... or what's found in this puzzle's themed answers |
| 44% | BOXED | 5 | With 40-Across, party supplies found in this puzzle's four corners |
| 44% | BRITISHISMS | 11 | Words found in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 44% | SPLITSECOND | 11 | Brief moment, or what three long answers in this puzzle have? |
| 44% | EVIL | 4 | This is bad. Real bad. And it's lurking in the longest puzzle answers, too! |
| 44% | IOO | 3 | Arabic equivalent of C hidden in this puzzle's five longest answers |