| 100% | CHILD | 5 | Elliot James Birnholz, e.g., whom Captain Obvious is addressing in this puzzle |
| 34% | VICTORFLEMING | 13 | Director of the eight starred films in this puzzle, who was born on 2/23/1889 |
| 34% | LIE | 3 | "This is not the last clue in this puzzle," e.g. |
| 32% | FBIAGENTS | 9 | Govt. employees encoded by the nine other longest across entries in this puzzle ... and who might be called in to decode them |
| 30% | SHADESOFPINK | 12 | What seven key words in this puzzle are |
| 30% | ENG | 3 | This puzzle is in it, briefly |
| 30% | CLUES | 5 | There are 10 in this puzzle |
| 30% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |
| 30% | NEEDLEINAHAYSTACK | 17 | Item hidden somewhere in this puzzle (where is it?) |
| 30% | TWENTYNINTHOFFEBRUARY | 21 | When the people featured in this puzzle were born |
| 30% | QUINNHUGHES | 11 | Vancouver Canucks captain who was honored with the NHL's James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2024 (2 wds.) |
| 30% | CODES | 5 | Postal ___ (what the two-letter answers in this puzzle are) |
| 30% | IRATE | 5 | What nine key words in this puzzle are synonyms of |
| 30% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |
| 30% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 30% | UNDERTHEHOOD | 12 | Where nine key words in this puzzle can be found |
| 30% | ENG | 3 | Language this puzzle is in: Abbr. |
| 29% | SEWINGKITS | 10 | Nine featured items in this puzzle may be found in these |
| 29% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 29% | FILM | 4 | What each completed pair of theme answers in this puzzle is |
| 29% | TWOFIRSTNAMES | 13 | What six people in this puzzle might be said to possess |
| 29% | HELLSKITCHEN | 12 | Manhattan neighborhood where the meal in this puzzle might be served? |
| 29% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 29% | LONGWINDED | 10 | Verbose, and what the circled letters in this puzzle literally are? |
| 29% | ONES | 4 | There are 13 in this puzzle's unsolved grid |
| 29% | QUI | 3 | Who is this in France |
| 29% | LYRICROSS | 9 | "This Is Us" actress who voices Kat Elliot in "Wendell & Wild": 2 wds. |
| 29% | WATERCOLORS | 11 | Some Winslow Homer art ... or what five answers in this puzzle are? |
| 29% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 29% | SOUNDMIXING | 11 | Category for which every 30-Down in this puzzle was recognized, aptly |