| 100% | FLOODWATERGATE | 14 | It may wash out bridges and embankments (as in this puzzle) + Onetime White House scandal |
| 32% | ONEA | 4 | In this puzzle, it’s clued as “Feeling :(” |
| 31% | ODOR | 4 | It might come out in the wash |
| 29% | WHITEWATERLINE | 14 | Onetime White House scandal + Main |
| 28% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 27% | DEER | 4 | With 73 Across, road sign that hints at something found four times in this puzzle (as well as its shape) |
| 27% | STRONGPASSWORD | 14 | It may require letters, a number and a special character -- as seen in 20-, 33- and 39-Across |
| 27% | EVIL | 4 | This is bad. Real bad. And it's lurking in the longest puzzle answers, too! |
| 27% | FBIAGENTS | 9 | Govt. employees encoded by the nine other longest across entries in this puzzle ... and who might be called in to decode them |
| 27% | HARDC | 5 | It starts and ends seven answers in this puzzle |
| 26% | ONEDOWN | 7 | In this puzzle it starts B-E-L |
| 26% | TARTAN | 6 | This may indicate what clan you're from and there's an official registry to check it out |
| 26% | SHEETS | 6 | It may rain in these |
| 26% | SANDWICHSHOP | 12 | Its menu might include the ends of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 25% | ENG | 3 | This puzzle is in it, briefly |
| 25% | LENS | 4 | It may zoom in or out |
| 25% | NEEDLEINAHAYSTACK | 17 | Item hidden somewhere in this puzzle (where is it?) |
| 25% | UTTERLYCLUELESS | 15 | Lost, like three answers in this puzzle, literally and figuratively |
| 25% | WIRETAP | 7 | What the four undercover orgs. in this puzzle might do |
| 25% | SENSE | 5 | This puzzle might not make it at first |
| 25% | TIER | 4 | It may hang out in a sports stadium |
| 25% | SOD | 3 | It may be rolled out in the backyard |
| 25% | AREA | 4 | It may be measured in hectares and acres |
| 25% | YOGAMAT | 7 | It might be rolled out in a studio |
| 24% | SEWINGKITS | 10 | Nine featured items in this puzzle may be found in these |
| 24% | TWOFIRSTNAMES | 13 | What six people in this puzzle might be said to possess |
| 24% | HELLSKITCHEN | 12 | Manhattan neighborhood where the meal in this puzzle might be served? |
| 24% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 24% | PET | 3 | It may walk on four legs in your house |
| 24% | FAD | 3 | It goes in and out |