| 100% | CDTOWERS | 8 | Jewel box holders ... or eight features of this puzzle? |
| 50% | CHUCKLEHEAD | 11 | Nincompoop ... or a feature of this puzzle's themed answers? |
| 48% | ASYMMETRY | 9 | Unusual feature of this puzzle … or, when parsed as two words (1,8), another unusual feature of this puzzle |
| 46% | EMIGRATION | 10 | Exodus, or a literal feature of this puzzle's starred answers |
| 45% | SIDESALADS | 10 | Entree accompaniers, and a feature of this puzzle |
| 45% | DRUMBREAK | 9 | Prominent feature of "In the Air Tonight"... or what's found twice in this puzzle |
| 45% | FALLINGO | 8 | Quarrel ... or a feature of five answers in this puzzle |
| 45% | STICK | 5 | Feature of this puzzle's three long Down answers |
| 45% | ALLRISE | 7 | Bailiff's request, and a feature of this puzzle |
| 44% | WORKLIFEBALANCE | 15 | Challenge in a demanding job ... or a feature of this puzzle? |
| 44% | GENRE | 5 | Mixing thematic elements and tropes … or a feature of this puzzle? |
| 43% | ALLTHELETTERS | 13 | With 14-Down, feature of this puzzle repeated three times |
| 43% | AREVERSAL | 9 | With 31-Down, feature of this puzzle's theme entries |
| 43% | EEES | 4 | Some shoes ... and a feature of this puzzle's theme |
| 43% | WRITERSBLOCK | 12 | Novelist's bane, and a seven-time feature of this puzzle |
| 42% | FACE | 4 | Site of this puzzle's thematic features |
| 42% | ASYMMETRY | 9 | Feature of this puzzle that's "fixed" by a literal reading of four squares |
| 42% | LATERALSYMMETRY | 15 | Feature of this puzzle's grid and the answers to the six starred clues |
| 42% | BRITISHPRIMEMINISTERS | 21 | Eight of their last names are featured in this puzzle |
| 41% | NOS | 3 | Features of 124 squares in this puzzle: Abbr. |
| 41% | MISSINGINGREDIENT | 17 | Feature of this puzzle (hint: string together the letters omitted from the starts of 10 long answers) |
| 40% | THEN/SOR/UTHE/WA/EST | 20 | Locale of this puzzle's attractions (really, all eight of them!) |
| 40% | DOUBLEO | 7 | Feature of this puzzle's circled squares that, when connected by a single line, visually represents 111-Across |
| 40% | SILVER | 6 | With 44-Across, bit of consolation ... or a feature of this puzzle's grid? |
| 39% | HOMOPHONE | 9 | Feature of each entry's clue or answer (except this one) |
| 39% | JRRTOLKIENSTHE | 14 | With 55-Across, source of this puzzle's quote (which starts in box #38) |
| 38% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 38% | DND | 3 | Role-playing game with a 20-sided die, familiarly, and a feature of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 38% | MAANDPA | 7 | Kettles ... or the theme of this puzzle |
| 38% | SITUP | 5 | Crunch cousin, and a feature of four answers in this puzzle |