| 100% | UNDERDOG | 8 | How this answer is situated |
| 100% | OVERHAUL | 8 | How this answer is situated |
| 100% | BESIDEONESELF | 13 | How this answer is situated |
| 100% | AHEADOFTIME | 11 | How this answer is situated |
| 100% | BEFORELONG | 10 | How this answer is situated |
| 100% | AFTERSHAVE | 10 | How this answer is situated |
| 100% | FOLLOWINGUP | 11 | How this answer is situated |
| 100% | NEXTTONOTHING | 13 | How this answer is situated |
| 75% | DOWN | 4 | How this answer is entered |
| 64% | INTHREED | 8 | How this puzzle’s nine longest answers are viewed? |
| 56% | BACKWARD | 8 | How the answers to the italicized clues must be entered into this puzzle |
| 55% | INARO | 5 | Indirectly ... or how some of this puzzle's answers should be entered? |
| 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 |
| 54% | OATH | 4 | This answer is a four-letter word |
| 53% | NOTALLTHER | 10 | Dimwitted, or what this answer is |
| 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 |
| 51% | COLUMN | 6 | This answer is in the third one of this puzzle |
| 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 |
| 49% | TASTE | 5 | The clue for this answer is found at 7-Across |
| 49% | NONCONTIGUOUSLY | 15 | How this puzzle's black squares are arranged |
| 49% | SPAN | 4 | [The clue for this answer is hidden elsewhere in this puzzle] |
| 49% | WEAR | 4 | (The clue for this answer is hiding elsewhere in this puzzle ...) |
| 48% | ONTHEROCKS | 10 | How this puzzle's three drinks have been served? |
| 47% | DOWN | 4 | How the answer to this goes |