| 100% | FINALFOUR | 9 | Event taking place in New Orleans and Minneapolis this weekend...and what 11- and 15 Across are in need of? |
| 35% | TOTALSOLARECLIPSE | 17 | Event taking place across parts of North America on Monday, represented in four spots in this puzzle |
| 32% | COOKIE | 6 | With 36-Across, mass-produced ... and what each of four black squares in this puzzle is? |
| 31% | QANDASESSION | 12 | What solvers of this puzzle are taking part in? |
| 31% | SLEEP | 5 | What new parents are often in dire need of |
| 31% | REPEATBUSINESS | 14 | Goal of store loyalty programs, and what can be found in 15-, 27-, and 41-Across |
| 31% | ANIMALSHELTER | 13 | Place to adopt a new pet, or what is found in 17-, 24-, 49-, and 59-Across? |
| 30% | CONSONANTS | 10 | There are six of these in the middle of 17- and 56-Across and 11- and 25-Down |
| 30% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 29% | GAYBARS | 7 | New Orleans' Cafe Lafitte in Exile is one of the oldest of these still operating |
| 29% | WINBYANOSE | 10 | Edge out, and a description of what appears four places in this puzzle |
| 29% | HANDS | 5 | Two of these are needed to type every answer here except 17- & 59-Across and 11- & 27-Down |
| 29% | OLIVERTWIST | 11 | Dickens orphan, and what is found in each set of circles in this puzzle? |
| 29% | STALEMATERIAL | 13 | Dated jokes ... and what the ends of four Across answers are, in a way |
| 29% | STRETCHGOAL | 11 | Crowdfunding target, and what can be found in three of this puzzle's answers |
| 29% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Basketball stat, and what can be found in six of this puzzle's long answers |
| 28% | PARTINGSHOT | 11 | End of a testy exchange, and what can be found four times in this puzzle, thanks to four black squares |
| 28% | SOAPBUBBLES | 11 | Products of a child's wand, and what are literally rising in this puzzle's circles |
| 28% | CORNERSTONE | 11 | Place to find a date ... and any one of four in this puzzle (circled letters are hints) |
| 28% | HIDDENWIRES | 11 | Devices worn by informants … and what can be found inside three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 28% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 28% | MAKEA | 5 | With 69- and 70-Across, get to the point . . . or what you’ll need to do with some of the answers in this puzzle? |
| 28% | MUCKRAKERS | 10 | What 17, 21, 37, and 55 Across are all examples of |
| 28% | BACKBURNER | 10 | Place for a nonurgent issue, and what can be found at the end of 16-, 24-, 37-, or 53- Across? |
| 28% | MADSCRAMBLE | 11 | Frantic, last-minute rush, and what can be found in each set of circled letters in this puzzle? |
| 28% | YOURHONOR | 9 | Showtime miniseries set in New Orleans starring 15-Across and 33-Across (2 wds.) |
| 28% | TRANSFER | 8 | With 119 Across, one changing schools ... and what you must do between seven pairs of schools in this puzzle |
| 28% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
| 27% | HALF | 4 | With 38- and 40-Across, grocery purchase ... or what can be found in some other Across answers in this puzzle |
| 27% | DISUNION | 8 | State of division, and what the first letters of the states divided across black squares in this puzzle spell out |