| 100% | READEVERYOTHERLETTER | 20 | Instruction for discovering this puzzle’s hidden wish to solvers |
| 44% | NOIFSANDSORBUTS | 15 | Emphatic instruction for entering the answers to this puzzle's 10 starred clues? |
| 43% | CUTALONGTHEDOTTEDLINE | 21 | Start of instructions for what to do when this puzzle is done |
| 43% | CUTONBOLDLINES | 14 | First step of instructions for what to do with this finished puzzle |
| 39% | FLIPSIDES | 9 | Opposites … or instructions for answering this puzzle's starred clues |
| 39% | BETWEENTHELINES | 15 | Where to look for hidden words in this puzzle's fifth and eleventh columns? |
| 38% | MAKESABEELINE | 13 | What this puzzle’s solver does when filling in the upper-left to lower-right diagonal? |
| 38% | DROPYOURWEAPONS | 15 | Instruction for solving six clues in this puzzle |
| 37% | SSORCAYREVE | 11 | Start of instructions for solving this puzzle |
| 36% | YOU | 3 | This puzzle's solver |
| 35% | TEEN | 4 | This puzzle's constructor, for one |
| 35% | OLDDRAGONSHEAD | 14 | Section of the eastern end of this puzzle's landmark, so named for its resemblance to a mythical beast drinking from the sea |
| 34% | GETTHEMEMO | 10 | What you do when you discover this puzzle’s theme? |
| 34% | IAMDRINKINGTHESTARS | 19 | Purported cry from 100-Across upon discovering this puzzle's subject |
| 34% | REMOVETHE | 9 | Part 1 of an instruction for solving this puzzle |
| 34% | VET | 3 | Solver to whom this puzzle is dedicated |
| 34% | SALADDAYS | 9 | Youthful time in one's life ... which this puzzle might harken solvers back to? |
| 34% | MOVESOVER | 9 | Makes room, and when parsed differently, an instruction for four answers in this puzzle |
| 33% | TWENTYSIXSTATES | 15 | What this puzzle's perimeter contains abbreviations for |
| 33% | TAKESTHEEDGEOFF | 15 | Alleviates pain a little … or what this puzzle does to certain squares for literal effect |
| 33% | INTHECORNER | 11 | This puzzle's answer to 35-Across (spelled out four times) |
| 33% | CHEMICALSYMBOLS | 15 | This puzzle's circled letters, for the words that precede them |
| 33% | UNIT | 4 | Each of this puzzle's hidden words, e.g. |
| 33% | SEVENCS | 7 | Punny title for this puzzle that's a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 32% | BIRDS | 5 | Things hidden in the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues |
| 32% | SUPERBOWL | 9 | Where this puzzle's theme pairs would like to meet |
| 32% | SPOILERALERT | 12 | Warning for solvers of this puzzle |
| 32% | JUSTADDWATER | 12 | "Instant" instructions, and how to complete this puzzle's starred clues |
| 31% | BYGONES | 7 | Apt word spelled from this puzzle's "covered" letters, top to bottom |
| 31% | ADDAPINCHOFSALT | 15 | Cooking instruction hinting at this puzzle's theme? |