| 100% | TRIVIAGAME | 10 | Jeopardy! or Facts in Five |
| 50% | CINQUES | 7 | Fives, in old cards or dice slang |
| 48% | ACTI | 4 | First of five in “Othello” or “Hamlet” |
| 46% | PUTONTHESPOT | 12 | Pressured, or what five squares in this puzzle do |
| 45% | FALLINGO | 8 | Quarrel ... or a feature of five answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | RIGHTONCUE | 10 | Prompt ... or a hint to entering five answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | WATERCOLORS | 11 | Some Winslow Homer art ... or what five answers in this puzzle are? |
| 43% | DEJECTION | 9 | Sadness ... or, read another way, what five puzzle answers have in common |
| 43% | HAMONRYE | 8 | Common deli order ... or a literal occurrence five times in this puzzle |
| 43% | SPILLTHEB | 9 | Blab ... or a literal hint to completing five answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | TAKESCOVER | 10 | Shelters, or (with another space) makes phrases like five in this puzzle |
| 43% | COLORFULCHARACTER | 17 | Interesting person ... or what's included, phonetically, five times in this puzzle |
| 42% | SEVERAL | 7 | Four or five, or how to make the theme answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | DARKARTS | 8 | What sorcerers practice ... or a hint to interpreting five clues in this puzzle |
| 41% | FLIPONESLID | 11 | Go crazy ... or a hint on how to enter five answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | TAMES | 5 | Breaks ... or an anagram of the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | MICROLOANS | 10 | Money to start small businesses ... or a hint to five squares in this puzzle |
| 41% | FLOSS | 5 | Dental directive, or (as two words) a feature of five answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | STRIPTEASE | 10 | Burlesque act, or read phonetically, how to make phrases like five in this puzzle |
| 41% | DOUBLEDOWN | 10 | Blackjack bet ... or a hint to applying the five shaded regions in this puzzle |
| 41% | GEN | 3 | Facts in emergency |
| 41% | DATA | 4 | Facts in files |
| 40% | SOLVEFORX | 9 | Common directive in 17-Across … or what to do with five squares in this puzzle |
| 40% | TAKETHEL | 8 | Accept defeat, in modern parlance … or a hint to entering five answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | TWISTOFLEMON | 12 | Drink garnish ... or a hint to five letters in the answer to each starred clue |
| 40% | RAISEDTHEBAR | 12 | Elevated expectations ... or what this puzzle's maker did to five answers in this puzzle? |
| 40% | EASYONTHEEYES | 13 | Good-looking ... or a phonetic hint to a feature found five times in this puzzle |
| 40% | WIGGLEROOM | 10 | Space to maneuver, or a hint to five sets of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 40% | GEN | 3 | Facts in an emergency |
| 39% | TURNTOSTONE | 11 | Petrify ... or what five alternating words in 17-, 23-, 29-, 43- and 50-Across can do? |