| 100% | HOMESTRETCH | 11 | Hint to what the other nine longest answers have in common |
| 80% | WIDESPREAD | 10 | What the other nine longest answers have in common |
| 62% | METWO | 5 | Hint to what the answers to the four starred clues have in common |
| 57% | SHAPESHIFTERS | 13 | Amorphous sci-fi beings, and a hint to what's hidden in the four other longest answers |
| 57% | DEUCESWILD | 10 | Card game declaration, and a hint to what can be found in the four other longest answers |
| 56% | URUR | 4 | What the longest answers have in common |
| 56% | TOTO | 4 | What the longest answers have in common |
| 55% | USA | 3 | What the five longest answers have in common |
| 55% | ABCD | 4 | What the ten longest answers have in common |
| 55% | AEIOU | 5 | What the ten longest answers have in common |
| 55% | ONOFF | 5 | What the three longest answers have in common |
| 55% | URUR | 4 | What the four longest answers have in common |
| 55% | NNNN | 4 | What the five longest answers have in common |
| 55% | OROR | 4 | What the seven longest answers have in common |
| 55% | CCC | 3 | What the three longest answers have in common |
| 55% | MMM | 3 | What the eight longest answers have in common |
| 55% | HAHA | 4 | What the four longest answers have in common |
| 55% | INOUT | 5 | What the five longest answers have in common |
| 55% | UMO | 3 | What the 10 longest answers have in common |
| 55% | CCCC | 4 | What the four longest answers have in common |
| 52% | AND | 3 | What the puzzle's eight longest answers have in common |
| 51% | JUICEUP | 7 | Supercharge, and a hint to what's literally hiding in the four longest Down answers |
| 51% | EIEIO | 5 | What the seven longest Across answers have in common |
| 50% | DPS | 3 | MLB rally killers, briefly, and a hint to what's in the four longest puzzle answers |
| 50% | NOWYOUSEEITNOWYOUDONT | 21 | Magic words … or a hint to the other long answers in this puzzle |
| 48% | RECYCLEDMETAL | 13 | Scrapyard commodity ... and what's hidden in the nine other longest puzzle answers |
| 48% | TUMBLEWEEDS | 11 | Drifters in some Western scenes ... and a hint to what's hidden in the three other longest puzzle answers |
| 47% | MERITBADGE | 10 | What each of the other nine long answers is |
| 47% | ETYMOLOGY | 9 | What the two words in each starred answer have in common with each other |
| 46% | LBS | 3 | 2,000 __ (what the four longest answers have in common) |