| 100% | MYSTERY | 7 | Genre with secrets, puzzles and clues |
| 60% | CROSSWORDS | 10 | Puzzles with across and down clues |
| 53% | INVISIBLEINK | 12 | Secret message technique ... and a hint to four puzzle clues |
| 53% | ESCAPE | 6 | __ room; team game with clues and puzzle-solving |
| 51% | REBUS | 5 | Type of puzzle with a combination of image and letter clues |
| 50% | OUTER | 5 | With 45-Across, hurricane-prone area, and a clue to this puzzle's edges |
| 47% | TAKE | 4 | With this puzzle's circled letters, exercise a certain constitutional right, and how to answer each starred clue |
| 47% | SCIFI | 5 | Genre with robots and aliens |
| 46% | SCIFI | 5 | Genre with aliens and time travel |
| 46% | POP | 3 | Genre with bubblegum and baroque subgenres |
| 46% | FANTASY | 7 | Genre with elves and magic-users |
| 45% | CROSSWORD | 9 | Puzzle with clues |
| 45% | THETIMES | 8 | With 38- and 52-Across, 1964 Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 45% | SECRET | 6 | With 46-Across, some areas in Clue … or a hint to the first, fourth, twelfth and fifteenth rows of this puzzle |
| 45% | GREAT | 5 | With 27-, 49- and 66-Across, phrase applicable to five innovations in this puzzle (as suggested by the starred clues) |
| 44% | SCIFI | 5 | Genre with time travel and wormholes |
| 44% | WESTERN | 7 | Film genre with showdowns and six-shooters |
| 44% | SCI | 3 | ___-fi (literary genre with spaceships and aliens) |
| 44% | SKACORE | 7 | Fusion genre with Caribbean and punk elements |
| 43% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle with twists and turns |
| 43% | ZARZUELA | 8 | Spanish dramatic genre with spoken and sung scenes |
| 43% | RPG | 3 | Video game genre with quests and adventures: Abbr. |
| 43% | REBUS | 5 | Puzzle with eyes and oars, perhaps |
| 43% | CROSSWORD | 9 | Puzzle with letters and black squares |
| 43% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle with passageways and dead ends |
| 42% | GLAMROCK | 8 | Early 70s music genre with glitter and make-up |
| 42% | METAL | 5 | Music genre with "death" and "speed" varieties |
| 42% | CROSSWORD | 9 | Printed puzzle with cryptic clues |
| 41% | EMO | 3 | Genre associated with guyliner and black nail polish |
| 41% | STASH | 5 | Secret supply (synonym of, and rhymes with "cache") |