| 100% | FORMLETTERS | 11 | Impersonal notes ... or what four groups of this puzzle's answers do (totaling 11 words) |
| 51% | MINCE | 5 | With 45-Across, not be direct ... or what four groups of black squares in this puzzle do? |
| 44% | ITTEAM | 6 | Group of PC experts ... or what this puzzle’s 10 theme answers are? |
| 44% | GOESUPANDDOWN | 13 | What each group of circled words in this puzzle does |
| 41% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 41% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 40% | CUTFROMTHESAMECLOTH | 19 | Having similar qualities ... or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle are? |
| 40% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 39% | UTTERNONSENSE | 13 | What you find in eight of this puzzle's answers...or what you do when you say them aloud? |
| 39% | TAKEASTEEPN | 11 | Plummet ... or what this puzzle's theme answers do? |
| 38% | LONG | 4 | Word interpreted literally in completing four of this puzzle's answers |
| 38% | STEERTSYAWOWT | 13 | Many thoroughfares ... or what this puzzle's Across answers consist of? |
| 38% | MAKEA | 5 | With 69- and 70-Across, get to the point . . . or what you’ll need to do with some of the answers in this puzzle? |
| 38% | SPELLEDOUT | 10 | Explained in great detail ... or what four of this puzzle's clues are? |
| 38% | GOTTHEHOOK | 10 | Was yanked offstage ... or what four puzzle answers did, in a way |
| 37% | PEND | 4 | Remain unsettled, or, read as two words, what five of this puzzle's long answers have |
| 37% | TURNSOFPHRASE | 13 | Distinctive ways to express things, or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle could be said to constitute |
| 37% | GOOUTONALIMB | 12 | Act riskily ... or what three answers in this puzzle do |
| 37% | DROPTROU | 8 | Moon, or what three answers in this puzzle literally do |
| 36% | STARTFROM | 9 | With 58-Across, what four Down answers in this puzzle do |
| 36% | EXCHANGINGRINGS | 15 | Sharing in a symbol of commitment … or what four rows in this puzzle are doing to form new phrases |
| 36% | OLD | 3 | Unlike the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 36% | GOESTOTHEDOGS | 13 | Rapidly deteriorates ... and what each of this puzzle's theme answers does? |
| 35% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |
| 35% | ENDING | 6 | Conclusion ... or, in three parts, what four answers in this puzzle unexpectedly do |
| 35% | FALLLEAVES | 10 | Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle? |
| 35% | FISH | 4 | With 11-Down, what each of this puzzle's groups of circles represents |
| 35% | FLIPS | 5 | What each word of six or more letters in this puzzle does |
| 35% | FIREWALL | 8 | Network-security option . . . or what’s creating a barrier within four of this puzzle’s answers |
| 35% | FLIPHOUSES | 10 | Turn a quick profit in real estate ... or what this puzzle's themed answers do? |