| 100% | DRAWKCAB | 8 | How the Across answers appear in the top half of this puzzle vis-à-vis the bottom |
| 80% | BACKWARD | 8 | How the Across answers appear in the bottom half of this puzzle |
| 53% | NAMETHEONE | 10 | Start of a brainteaser whose answer appears in order, from top to bottom, in this puzzle's circled squares |
| 45% | SEEMEAFTERCLASS | 15 | Ominous message at the top of a returned assignment ... and a hint to the beginning of four answers in this puzzle? |
| 45% | DONUT | 5 | Treat whose varieties appear at the starts of four long answers and are represented a dozen times in this puzzle |
| 43% | COLUMN | 6 | This answer is in the third one of this puzzle |
| 43% | ELEVEN | 6 | How many letters are in the longest answers in this puzzle - or how many of these answers there are |
| 43% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 42% | YIDDISH | 7 | Source of the six longest Across answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | LAYER | 5 | Either the top or bottom half of this puzzle, figuratively speaking |
| 41% | GULLIBLE | 8 | How you might feel after reading the third letter of every clue in this puzzle for a secret message |
| 41% | NUMERATOR | 9 | Value in the top half of a fraction |
| 41% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle |
| 41% | TAMES | 5 | Breaks ... or an anagram of the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | OVERLOADED | 10 | Carrying way too much, and a punny description of four Across answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | AFTERTHOUGHT | 12 | “P.S.” comment ... or where the ends of eight answers in this puzzle might appear? |
| 40% | DROPDOWNMENU | 12 | Options at the top of a computer window … as seen three times in this puzzle? |
| 40% | PAPAS | 5 | Half of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answers |
| 40% | MAMAS | 5 | Half of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answers |
| 40% | FORMATION | 9 | Following the nine black squares in the center of the grid, a hint to five pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | EXTRACT | 7 | Remove, or, if you put a space after the fifth letter, a feature of five of this puzzle's Across answers |
| 40% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 40% | SALT | 4 | Theme of this puzzle, found in the answers to 21-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across |
| 39% | CORPORATEMERGER | 15 | Business acquisition ... or a hint to how the answers to the starred clues in this puzzle were formed? |
| 39% | LEADDETECTIVES | 14 | Ones in charge of a case ... or a literal hint to the eight other longest answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | BATMAN | 6 | 1960s TV icon whose name follows a pair of letters found, appropriately, 16 times in this puzzle's Across answers |
| 39% | CAPITAL | 7 | With 31-Down, proceeds from the sale of an asset … or a hint to understanding six answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | LOOPDELOOPS | 11 | Upside-down parts of a roller coaster ride — represented twice in the answer to each of this puzzle's starred clues |
| 38% | CANISTEALYOUFORASECOND | 22 | Request for one-on-one time in the "Bachelor" TV franchise … or a phonetic hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | SNL | 3 | TV show since 10/11/75, eight of whose former stars appear in the circled squares in this puzzle |