| 100% | KUE | 3 | Letter that doesn't appear in this puzzle |
| 73% | THE | 3 | Article that doesn’t appear in any of this puzzle’s clues |
| 62% | EL | 2 | Letter that starts each clue in this puzzle |
| 61% | EWES | 4 | Animals whose name sounds like a letter that doesn't appear in its name |
| 52% | VOWEL | 5 | Type of letter that alternates with consonants in this puzzle's answers |
| 52% | JINTHEBOX | 9 | Toy that appears several times in this puzzle |
| 50% | THE | 3 | Word that appears in ten of this puzzle's clues |
| 49% | EAST | 4 | Only main compass direction that doesn't appear in a US state name |
| 48% | MRT | 3 | Actor whose name is appropriate to appear in this puzzle |
| 48% | TRAPPED | 7 | Confined, like five letters in this puzzle that spell an apt word |
| 47% | ASTERISK | 8 | * (And by the way, her name appears in this puzzle 16 times) |
| 47% | CURRENCY | 8 | What 15 answers in this puzzle appear on |
| 47% | FOUR | 4 | Minimum number of times each letter of the alphabet appears in this puzzle's solution |
| 46% | ABS | 3 | "Six-pack" found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 46% | TEN | 3 | Number of clues in this puzzle that contain factual inaccuracies |
| 45% | PUNCH | 5 | Word that completes four phrases in this puzzle |
| 45% | PSI | 3 | Letter that appears twice in the Schrödinger equation |
| 45% | PSI | 3 | Letter that appears twice in the Schrodinger equation |
| 45% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter "C" |
| 45% | PLATO | 5 | Speaker of the quote found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 45% | SPLITSECOND | 11 | Instant … hinted at four times in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 45% | AEIOU | 5 | Letters that appear once each in a supervocalic word |
| 45% | SKIPSBAIL | 9 | Doesn't appear in court |
| 44% | AFRAMEBUILDINGS | 15 | Structures illustrated twice in this puzzle through both black squares and letters |
| 44% | JAMESBOND | 9 | Character associated with the beverage "shaken" in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 44% | BENDOREGON | 10 | Western city hinted at seven times in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 44% | BACKTALK | 8 | Sass, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 44% | SITS | 4 | Doesn't appear in the lineup |
| 44% | AFTERPARTY | 10 | Post-event bash ... or where eight key words in this puzzle might appear |
| 44% | STUFFEDPEPPERS | 14 | Tex-Mex fare found with increasing spiciness in this puzzle's circled letters? |