| 100% | FROMTHEBOTTOMTOTHETOP | 21 | How a team making a dramatic turnaround can go ... and a hint for how you must enter 15 answers in this puzzle |
| 48% | BACKINTOACORNER | 15 | Trap, and a hint for how to enter eight answers in this puzzle |
| 46% | DOWNUNDER | 9 | Nickname for 18-Across, and a hint to how four answers in this puzzle are to be entered |
| 42% | FLIPONESLID | 11 | Go crazy ... or a hint on how to enter five answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | SKIPPER | 7 | Ship's captain, informally, and a hint to help you to understand five answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | BACKTOSQUAREONE | 15 | Where you go for a fresh start ... or a hint for four answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | JUMP | 4 | Word that can precede each set of circled letters, forming a literal hint for entering certain answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | RIGHTLYSO | 9 | For good reason, and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | PARADISELOST | 12 | John Milton epic, and a hint to how four long answers in this puzzle were formed |
| 37% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |
| 37% | IRONCLAD | 8 | Unbreakable, and a hint to making sense of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | POPUPAD | 7 | Bit of Web clutter, and a hint to making sense of four answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | FLAGONTHEPLAY | 13 | Gridiron infraction indicator, and a hint to what you'll find three times in this puzzle |
| 35% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 35% | SIDEHUSTLE | 10 | Extra job, and a hint to what each starred answer is for many (and literally is, in this puzzle) |
| 35% | FLOWER | 6 | Garden sight, and, if reparsed, a hint to making sense of 10 answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | MOVER | 5 | Relocation pro, and a hint for six of this puzzle's answers |
| 34% | MOVING | 6 | With 58-Down, vehicle for people on the go? ... or a hint to five strategically placed answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | UPSIDEDOWNCAKES | 15 | You'll flip over these desserts (and a hint to seven answers in this puzzle) |
| 34% | TWOSTATESOLUTION | 16 | Topic of international negotiations ... and a hint to every four-letter answer in this puzzle |
| 34% | QUIETCAR | 8 | Place for Amtrak passengers to unwind ... and a hint to how to interpret eight puzzle answers |
| 34% | COUNT | 5 | With 61-Across, advice for an insomniac ... or what you can do 12 times in this puzzle, reading across and down (not including this answer) |
| 34% | MOVESOVER | 9 | Makes room, and when parsed differently, an instruction for four answers in this puzzle |
| 33% | BANDE | 5 | Burglary, for short ... and a hint to this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 33% | ATTHEDROPOFAHAT | 15 | With the slightest provocation, and how four answers in this puzzle make sense |
| 33% | HANDSDOWN | 9 | Easily ... and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 33% | DOWNATTHEHEELS | 14 | Tattered, and a hint to six answers in this puzzle |
| 33% | CORNERBARS | 10 | Local watering holes, and a hint to a word that can follow eight of this puzzle's peripheral answers |
| 33% | SLEEPINGCAR | 11 | Accommodation for a long train trip ... or a hint to entering a certain letter 14 times in this puzzle |
| 33% | BODYOFWATER | 11 | Geographic feature, and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |