| 100% | POSEIDON | 8 | God who banished 63-Across to the sky, as depicted by the constellation formed by the X's in this puzzle's finished grid |
| 39% | NEUROPLASTICITY | 15 | Brain's ability to form new connections ... as represented by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 38% | TOPHAT | 6 | Something worn by the answer to each starred clue, as represented graphically in this puzzle's grid |
| 35% | SMILEYFACE | 10 | What's formed by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 34% | FBIAGENTS | 9 | Govt. employees encoded by the nine other longest across entries in this puzzle ... and who might be called in to decode them |
| 34% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |
| 33% | BOW | 3 | With 61-Down, accessory worn by 19-/21-, 26-/29-, 45-/49- and 54-/56-Across, as depicted four times in this puzzle's grid |
| 32% | INNERCITIES | 11 | Urban areas (as hinted at by the circled letters in this puzzle's grid) |
| 32% | RUNNING | 7 | With 57-Across, 1977 Jackson Browne album ... or a hint to what's depicted in this puzzle's grid |
| 32% | THEBATCAVE | 10 | Locale below 17-Across, as suggested by three images in this puzzle's grid |
| 31% | ROTATECLOCKWISE | 15 | How to see the image formed by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 31% | GREAT | 5 | With 27-, 49- and 66-Across, phrase applicable to five innovations in this puzzle (as suggested by the starred clues) |
| 31% | BENJAMIN | 8 | With 32-Down, person associated with the scene depicted in this puzzle's grid |
| 31% | DOUBLED*PPERS | 13 | Ones committing a party foul ... or the images depicted in this puzzle's grid? |
| 31% | FRESHSTART | 10 | New beginning, as spelled by the new beginnings in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 31% | INCANDESCENTLIGHTBULB | 21 | Development of 86-Across ... as depicted in the middle of this grid |
| 31% | DECLARATION | 11 | With 114-Across, source of the phrase formed by the ends of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 31% | ITSRAINING | 10 | With 63-Across, the opening lines to a nursery rhyme suggested by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 31% | CASTAVOTE | 9 | What many Americans will do on 17-Across (as hinted at by highlighting all the V's in this puzzle's answer) |
| 31% | PINATA | 6 | Party item depicted in the middle of this puzzle's grid |
| 30% | SPREADTHEWEALTH | 15 | Be generous with one's good fortune, as depicted by the movement of this puzzle's circled letters |
| 30% | DONOTBEND | 9 | Mail instruction sometimes ignored, as suggested by the words in this puzzle's circles |
| 30% | LIGHTBULB | 9 | Item suggested visually by the black squares in this puzzle's grid |
| 30% | INTERCHANGEABLE | 15 | Like the parts of this puzzle's toy, as depicted throughout the grid |
| 30% | 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 |
| 30% | SKILIFTS | 8 | Peak picker-uppers, as depicted three times in this puzzle's grid |
| 29% | GUITAR | 6 | Instrument depicted by the circled squares in this grid |
| 29% | CURLINGSTONES | 13 | Items guided by brooms in the Winter Olympics ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 29% | SUN | 3 | Great ball of fire in the sky, also central to this grid's theme |
| 29% | ONIONDOME | 9 | Prominent feature of 5-/17-Across depicted in this puzzle's grid |