| 100% | HARDC | 5 | It starts and ends seven answers in this puzzle |
| 60% | SANDWICHSHOP | 12 | Its menu might include the ends of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 54% | HITRECORDS | 10 | Seven answers in this puzzle |
| 51% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 50% | WORDOFTHEYEAR | 13 | Annual American Dialect Society award given to seven answers in this puzzle |
| 50% | CUTOUTTHEMIDDLEMAN | 18 | What you have to do before entering seven answers in this puzzle? |
| 49% | EVIL | 4 | This is bad. Real bad. And it's lurking in the longest puzzle answers, too! |
| 49% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 49% | UTTERLYCLUELESS | 15 | Lost, like three answers in this puzzle, literally and figuratively |
| 48% | ONEDOWN | 7 | In this puzzle it starts B-E-L |
| 48% | AMA | 3 | Professional org. ending eight answers in this puzzle |
| 48% | IRONCLAD | 8 | Unbreakable, and a hint to making sense of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | TVS | 3 | Appliances hidden in seven answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 47% | LAD | 3 | Youth found in this puzzle's seven longest answers |
| 46% | WHATISLOVE | 10 | 1993 dance hit, and a question answered seven times in this puzzle |
| 46% | TEEDOFF | 7 | Steamed ... and like five answers in this puzzle? |
| 45% | WATER | 5 | It's seven, in this puzzle's theme |
| 45% | DDAY | 4 | Its beaches begin five answers in this puzzle |
| 45% | EROS | 4 | Name hidden in seven other answers in this puzzle |
| 45% | SNOWWHITE | 9 | Woman associated with seven other answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | PEOPLEOFTHECLOTH | 16 | Clergy ... and four answers in this puzzle? |
| 44% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |
| 44% | BASE | 4 | It's greater than seven, in this puzzle's theme |
| 44% | ACID | 4 | It's less than seven, in this puzzle's theme |
| 43% | SECRET | 6 | When revealed in this puzzle, it reverses the meanings of the answers to the starred clues |
| 43% | COUNTDOWN | 9 | What might end the year, and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | TAKESTOTHEAIR | 13 | Starts traveling like seven key words in this puzzle |
| 42% | THREE | 5 | Word that precedes six other answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | VEST | 4 | Layer found within five other answers in this puzzle |