| 100% | LASTLETTERS | 11 | Explanatory information about this puzzle is revealed by reading these in the clues |
| 44% | CLOCKWISE | 9 | How this puzzle's grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues, when written in 17-Across |
| 41% | YOUREMUTED | 10 | Comment about the silence on Zoom ... and what's spelled out by the sounds that have been removed from the starts of 10 phrases in this puzzle |
| 40% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 40% | LIE | 3 | "This is not the last clue in this puzzle," e.g. |
| 40% | WHOKILLED | 9 | With 59-Across, old English nursery rhyme being investigated by the detectives in this puzzle |
| 40% | CALCULATOR | 10 | Device used to read the eight visual clues in this puzzle |
| 39% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 39% | SHOOT | 5 | Word suggested by the three fill-in-the-blank clues in this puzzle |
| 39% | PARALLELOGRAM | 13 | What's revealed by connecting the special squares in this puzzle in order |
| 39% | CORPORATEMERGER | 15 | Business acquisition ... or a hint to how the answers to the starred clues in this puzzle were formed? |
| 39% | SECRET | 6 | When revealed in this puzzle, it reverses the meanings of the answers to the starred clues |
| 39% | AMBULANCE | 9 | Vehicle whose sound is imitated by the first three Across entries in this puzzle |
| 39% | COP | 3 | Your role in this puzzle [the asterisked clues will help you crack the case] |
| 38% | ONE | 3 | Chart position reached by all the albums seen in the starred clues in this puzzle |
| 38% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle |
| 38% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 38% | GREAT | 5 | With 27-, 49- and 66-Across, phrase applicable to five innovations in this puzzle (as suggested by the starred clues) |
| 38% | NODOFF | 6 | At midnight when I'm still writing clues for the puzzle that absolutely has to be in Florida by 8:00 am, I have a tendency to do this |
| 38% | OPPOSITESATTRACT | 16 | Saying about compatible partners … as suggested by the starts of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? |
| 38% | SPAN | 4 | [The clue for this answer is hidden elsewhere in this puzzle] |
| 38% | WEAR | 4 | (The clue for this answer is hiding elsewhere in this puzzle ...) |
| 38% | WHOLEHOG | 8 | With 49-Across, Southern cooking tradition that can be described by the transformation happening in this puzzle |
| 38% | TOPHAT | 6 | Something worn by the answer to each starred clue, as represented graphically in this puzzle's grid |
| 37% | CHRIST | 6 | His name is represented by the X in the clue for 117 Across |
| 37% | ABBR | 4 | Clue hint used four times in this puzzle (but can't be used here because it would give away the answer) |
| 37% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
| 37% | GULLIBLE | 8 | How you might feel after reading the third letter of every clue in this puzzle for a secret message |
| 37% | COIN | 4 | With 55-Down, actions that can be performed nine times in this puzzle without affecting any of the clues? |
| 37% | FBIAGENTS | 9 | Govt. employees encoded by the nine other longest across entries in this puzzle ... and who might be called in to decode them |