| 100% | ELEVEN | 6 | How many letters are in the longest answers in this puzzle - or how many of these answers there are |
| 56% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 55% | ATOZ | 4 | The works ... or how each set of circled letters in this puzzle is arranged |
| 54% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 53% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 53% | WITHINSIGHT | 11 | Visible ... or, literally, where most inner letters of this puzzle's eight other longest Across answers are situated |
| 52% | NOCLUE | 6 | "Haven't the foggiest!" … or, when the first two letters are put at the end, an essential part of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 51% | LEADDETECTIVES | 14 | Ones in charge of a case ... or a literal hint to the eight other longest answers in this puzzle |
| 51% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 50% | CORPORATEMERGER | 15 | Business acquisition ... or a hint to how the answers to the starred clues in this puzzle were formed? |
| 49% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 48% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |
| 48% | DONUT | 5 | Treat whose varieties appear at the starts of four long answers and are represented a dozen times in this puzzle |
| 47% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 47% | NOWYOUSEEITNOWYOUDONT | 21 | Magic words … or a hint to the other long answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 46% | YIDDISH | 7 | Source of the six longest Across answers in this puzzle |
| 46% | PERSEVERANCE | 12 | Subject of the adage formed by the starts of nine long answers in this puzzle |
| 46% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 46% | SHAKEWEIGHT | 11 | Oscillating exercise device of infomercial fame . . . or how to arrive at the four strings of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 46% | NEWYEARSEVE | 11 | Time to sing the tune suggested by the starts of 10 long answers in this puzzle |
| 46% | PARADISELOST | 12 | John Milton epic, and a hint to how four long answers in this puzzle were formed |
| 46% | INARO | 5 | Indirectly ... or how some of this puzzle's answers should be entered? |
| 46% | TAKINGNOTES | 11 | Creating study aids during a classroom lecture, and how seven long answers in this puzzle were created? |
| 45% | CUTFROMTHESAMECLOTH | 19 | Having similar qualities ... or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle are? |
| 45% | COLORPICTURES | 13 | Photos not in shades of gray ... or what eight answers in this puzzle are? |
| 44% | ITGOESWITHOUTSAYING | 19 | "We all see the obvious here, right?," and how to make six long answers in this puzzle match their clues? |
| 44% | MAILTRUCKS | 10 | There are a lot of letters in this answer |
| 44% | DOCUMENTARIES | 13 | 13-letter word that each theme answer in this puzzle is an anagram of |
| 44% | MEATSUBSTITUTES | 15 | Vegetarian options … or what the shaded letters in this puzzle are, phonetically |