| 100% | DROODLE | 7 | Humorous "what is this a picture of?" sketch invented by Roger Price in the 1950s |
| 42% | WEAPON | 6 | The "what" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant |
| 40% | TICKLEMEELMO | 12 | By the end of 1996, one million of this toy was sold in a shopping frenzy |
| 40% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 39% | ROOM | 4 | The "where" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant |
| 39% | SUSPECT | 7 | The "who" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant |
| 38% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
| 38% | BOX | 3 | Container (and, in a way, what you will find outlined by this year's clues related to the mega-meta) |
| 37% | ARMS | 4 | What are featured in the theme entries of this puzzle |
| 37% | MEN | 3 | What was "raining" in a 1982 megahit by the Weather Girls |
| 37% | POLIO | 5 | Let's go to the 1950s! What will you see here? You will see this disease slowly start to dwindle after the Salk vaccine is invented in 1955 |
| 36% | BEARUP | 6 | Laugh in the face of being strangled by a gorilla, maybe |
| 36% | PIZZA | 5 | The "Hawaiian" version of this food was invented in Canada |
| 36% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 36% | RACE | 4 | What the vehicle in "lane one" of this crossword is winning? |
| 36% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 35% | YOUREMUTED | 10 | Comment about the silence on Zoom ... and what's spelled out by the sounds that have been removed from the starts of 10 phrases in this puzzle |
| 35% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 35% | INFECTION | 9 | Invaders were killed by this in War of the Worlds |
| 35% | FAIRYTALEENDING | 15 | What’s spelled out by the starts of six answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | MOLTENLAVA | 10 | The destruction of Green Lake in early June 2018 was accomplished by this |
| 35% | WHITE | 5 | What the color of Bing Crosby's Christmas is, in a 1942 song? |
| 35% | BUCKET | 6 | A drop in the __, a little bit of what is needed |
| 35% | GRANDSLAMHOMERUN | 16 | What will cause a walk-off win in the situation described by the answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | MPH | 3 | What the speed of a tennis serve or baseball pitch is measured in: Abbr. |
| 35% | GENRE | 5 | What the start of 17-, 29-, 45- or 61-Across is, in a bookstore |
| 35% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 34% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 34% | FAERIES | 7 | Creatures of which Gloriana is the “Queene,” in a work by Edmund Spenser |