| 100% | LAYER | 5 | Either the top or bottom half of this puzzle, figuratively speaking |
| 45% | DRAWKCAB | 8 | How the Across answers appear in the top half of this puzzle vis-à-vis the bottom |
| 45% | ABBA | 4 | "Mamma Mia" quartet... or the rhyme scheme of both the top and bottom halves of this grid |
| 42% | BACKWARD | 8 | How the Across answers appear in the bottom half of this puzzle |
| 42% | POLE | 4 | Top or bottom of the Earth |
| 41% | CONTACTUS | 9 | Line at the top or bottom of a website [1997, 2019] |
| 37% | BUBBLESUP | 9 | Rises to the top, or what can be found in this puzzle? |
| 35% | DROPDOWNMENU | 12 | Options at the top of a computer window … as seen three times in this puzzle? |
| 35% | ANTICI | 6 | First half of this puzzle's theme ... |
| 34% | MAANDPA | 7 | Kettles ... or the theme of this puzzle |
| 34% | ACROSS | 6 | Direction for almost half of this puzzle's answers |
| 34% | PRO | 3 | Debate position and half of this puzzle's theme |
| 34% | ACROSS | 6 | Like approximately half of this puzzle’s clues, directionally |
| 33% | SOLIDFOOD | 9 | Theme of this puzzle, so to speak |
| 33% | SEEMEAFTERCLASS | 15 | Ominous message at the top of a returned assignment ... and a hint to the beginning of four answers in this puzzle? |
| 33% | NINE | 4 | See 14 Across ... or the number of interconnected Monday puzzles before this one, starting with 3/15 |
| 32% | TOENAIL | 7 | Half of the digits have this |
| 32% | POLE | 4 | Area at the very top or very bottom of the Earth |
| 32% | POLES | 5 | The top and bottom of the Earth |
| 32% | WEST | 4 | The half of the keyboard on which all of this puzzle's answers can be typed |
| 32% | YOU | 3 | The solver of this puzzle |
| 32% | HIDINGOUT | 9 | Theme of this puzzle, seen seven times in the grid |
| 32% | BRIGHTIDEA | 10 | Stroke of genius … or the theme of this puzzle |
| 32% | THEFRENCHCONNECTION | 19 | Best Picture winner of the 1970s, or what five of this puzzle's answers have |
| 31% | BORES | 5 | Tedious things ... or phonetically, the theme of this puzzle |
| 31% | ESSES | 5 | Half of the letters in this answer's row |
| 31% | PUN | 3 | The title of this puzzle, e.g. |
| 31% | TRIO | 4 | The constructors of this puzzle, e.g. |
| 31% | WEST | 4 | This side of the puzzle |
| 31% | DOWNS | 5 | This half of the clues |