| 100% | OPEN | 4 | It's ''broken'' in the three longest answers |
| 81% | BRR | 3 | What's heard in the three longest answers |
| 75% | PERP | 4 | Whom to catch in the three longest answers |
| 73% | HERO | 4 | One ''unsung'' in the three longest answers |
| 70% | CHOIR | 5 | Where else to find words hidden in the three longest answers |
| 69% | ONOFF | 5 | What the three longest answers have in common |
| 69% | CCC | 3 | What the three longest answers have in common |
| 68% | SIZES | 5 | What the three long answers end with, in brief |
| 63% | PBJ | 3 | What's hidden ''across'' the three longest answers |
| 61% | SNOW | 4 | What's ''falling'' (in mixed order) within the three longest answers |
| 58% | FEE | 3 | What "surrounds" each of the three longest answers |
| 57% | SKY | 3 | Where to observe the three longest answers |
| 57% | CHANGINGDIAPERS | 15 | New father's task, maybe ... and what the three other longest puzzle answers have in common? |
| 57% | TOES | 4 | What's in the five longest answers |
| 57% | BOXCAR | 6 | It's in for the long haul |
| 56% | STOP | 4 | "Knock it off!" (or, parsed in three parts, a hint to the theme answers) |
| 55% | SPREADTHIN | 10 | What's found in the other eight longest answers |
| 54% | EVIL | 4 | This is bad. Real bad. And it's lurking in the longest puzzle answers, too! |
| 54% | DAY | 3 | It breaks in the morning |
| 54% | DAWN | 4 | It breaks in the morning |
| 54% | PCORMAC | 7 | What's hidden in the four longest Across answers |
| 54% | TOE | 3 | Stocking stuffer found in the long Across answers |
| 53% | TOGO | 4 | Pair in the seven longest answers |
| 53% | FOOLSPARADISE | 13 | Mix-up of the three other long answers, utopia for today's victim |
| 53% | MILER | 5 | One who's in it for the long run |
| 53% | LIFER | 5 | One who's in it for the long haul |
| 53% | MARATHONER | 10 | Person who's in it for the long run? |
| 53% | NOTHINGINCOMMON | 15 | Lack of similar interests, and what the three long answers with circled letters have? |
| 52% | GEMS | 4 | What are hidden in the four longest answers |
| 52% | THREE | 5 | Number of words in the four longest answers |