| 100% | DOWN | 4 | How this answer is entered |
| 75% | UNDERDOG | 8 | How this answer is situated |
| 75% | OVERHAUL | 8 | How this answer is situated |
| 75% | BESIDEONESELF | 13 | How this answer is situated |
| 75% | AHEADOFTIME | 11 | How this answer is situated |
| 75% | BEFORELONG | 10 | How this answer is situated |
| 75% | AFTERSHAVE | 10 | How this answer is situated |
| 75% | FOLLOWINGUP | 11 | How this answer is situated |
| 75% | NEXTTONOTHING | 13 | How this answer is situated |
| 72% | BACKWARD | 8 | How the answers to the italicized clues must be entered into this puzzle |
| 64% | INTHREED | 8 | How this puzzle’s nine longest answers are viewed? |
| 60% | ACROSS | 6 | How to enter this answer |
| 56% | ITGOESUPANDDOWN | 15 | How life is like the ocean, or a hint to entering the starred answers |
| 55% | INANE | 5 | Foolish ... or, when read as three words, how this puzzle's other four "foolish" answers are arranged |
| 55% | EDGE | 4 | Where this answer is |
| 55% | TENLETTERS | 10 | What this answer is |
| 55% | THREEWORDPHRASE | 15 | What this answer is |
| 55% | BACKINTOACORNER | 15 | Trap, and a hint for how to enter eight answers in this puzzle |
| 54% | OATH | 4 | This answer is a four-letter word |
| 54% | FLIPONESLID | 11 | Go crazy ... or a hint on how to enter five answers in this puzzle |
| 53% | NOTALLTHER | 10 | Dimwitted, or what this answer is |
| 53% | INARO | 5 | Indirectly ... or how some of this puzzle's answers should be entered? |
| 52% | INRED | 5 | How losses are traditionally entered |
| 52% | INCAPS | 6 | HOW THIS CLUE IS WRITTEN |
| 52% | CLOCKWISE | 9 | How this puzzle's grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues, when written in 17-Across |
| 52% | COLUMN | 6 | This answer is in the third one of this puzzle |
| 52% | INBED | 5 | How breakfast may be served ... or how the answers to the eight starred clues should be entered? |
| 51% | ACROSS | 6 | How this clue's answer reads |
| 50% | COMINGUPSHOR | 12 | Failing to meet expectations, or what this answer is |
| 50% | ELEVEN | 6 | How many letters are in the longest answers in this puzzle - or how many of these answers there are |