| 100% | ADVANCETEAMS | 12 | Groups that do prep work ahead of an event, and a directive followed by this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 32% | GOESTOTHEDOGS | 13 | Rapidly deteriorates ... and what each of this puzzle's theme answers does? |
| 32% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Basketball feat suggested by this puzzle's pairs of theme answers, informally |
| 31% | CHANGETHESUBJECT | 16 | Switch topics, and a hint to solving this puzzle's theme answers |
| 31% | DOORWAY | 7 | Portal represented 20 times in this puzzle that lets you in and out of a confined space (Note: These special letters, reading left to right, row by row, will produce an apt four-word phrase) |
| 30% | PUTAPININIT | 11 | "Hold that thought," and what we've done to this puzzle's theme answers |
| 30% | CORNERBARS | 10 | Local watering holes, and a hint to a word that can follow eight of this puzzle's peripheral answers |
| 30% | THROW | 5 | Light bed cover ... and a verb that goes with the first parts of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 30% | PITCHATENT | 10 | Prepare for a night out, and an explanation of this puzzle's theme |
| 29% | CHEMICALBONDING | 15 | Attraction suggested by this puzzle's theme answers |
| 29% | THERESNOIINTEAM | 15 | Axiom contradicted by this puzzle's theme answers |
| 29% | THINKQUICKLY | 12 | To understand this puzzle's theme, read the ends of the answers to the starred clues and ... |
| 29% | CREW | 4 | With 65-Across, private dos, and a hint to this puzzle's five theme answers |
| 29% | CATCHAFISH | 10 | Have success angling, and what this puzzle's theme answers do |
| 28% | INOVERTIME | 10 | When some contests are resolved, and a hint to ending this puzzle's theme answers |
| 28% | LEGUP | 5 | Boost, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| 28% | INREVERSE | 9 | Backwards, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| 28% | TOMB | 4 | Type of structure that this puzzle's theme is a grand example of |
| 28% | SECRETMENU | 10 | Food only found by those who know, and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 28% | MOVER | 5 | Relocation pro, and a hint for six of this puzzle's answers |
| 28% | SITUP | 5 | Crunch cousin, and a feature of four answers in this puzzle |
| 28% | HQS | 3 | Command ctrs., and a description of five answers in this puzzle |
| 28% | DOCUMENTARIES | 13 | 13-letter word that each theme answer in this puzzle is an anagram of |
| 28% | TUESDAY | 7 | Part of a calendar septet, and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 28% | ASYMMETRY | 9 | Feature of this puzzle that's "fixed" by a literal reading of four squares |
| 28% | CENTRALPARK | 11 | Feature of Manhattan, and of this puzzle's answers that contain circles |
| 27% | PUN | 3 | Any of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 27% | IRONCLAD | 8 | Unbreakable, and a hint to making sense of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 27% | LIFTOFF | 7 | Launchpad event, and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 27% | DOUBLEO | 7 | Feature of this puzzle's circled squares that, when connected by a single line, visually represents 111-Across |