| 100% | OED | 3 | Letters that I had to look up in what turned out to be itself, in order to find out what they meant |
| 32% | GOLAST | 6 | Have the final turn, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 31% | LATENESS | 8 | Result of pushing things back, and what's spelled out by eight letters that have been literally pushed to the back |
| 30% | UFO | 3 | Sighting in the sky that might turn out to be a weather balloon: Abbr. |
| 30% | COUNTTHESQUARES | 15 | How to find out what "this many" is in 17-, 21-, 52- and 57-Across |
| 30% | SATES | 5 | Satisfies, spelled with letters that can be found in order in satisfies |
| 29% | BAKER | 5 | "I used to be a ___ until I found out I was in it for the dough!" |
| 29% | PITTSBURGH | 10 | City that had the final letter of its name removed in 1891, only to be restored in 1911 |
| 28% | LANDOWNER | 9 | What a freed slave was to become in an 1865 order that was eventually overturned |
| 28% | ELSIETHECOW | 11 | Company mascot introduced in the 1930s that has never been put out to pasture |
| 28% | BLEATS | 6 | What you hear in this conversation: "Nice weather we're having today." "Ewe said it. Get it? I said 'ewe'!" "Ugh, that pun was awful." "You mean ... it was baaad?" |
| 28% | LINEUP | 6 | The order that players are up to bat in baseball |
| 28% | ICECREAMPARLOR | 14 | Place to find what the circled letters spell (considering the words that cross at them) |
| 28% | OVER | 4 | (5/6) The issue has been diagnosed. With 46d, find out what needs to be done to fix the car! |
| 27% | TITANIC | 7 | I can’t - it turned out to be vast |
| 27% | DREAM | 5 | What Dorothy's trip to Oz turned out to be |
| 27% | CAD | 3 | What many an ex of mine turned out to be |
| 27% | HERALD | 6 | That woman’s lad turned out to be a courier |
| 27% | WEATHERBALLOON | 14 | What a U.F.O. might turn out to be |
| 27% | CATCHING | 8 | __ up, talking to find out what you've missed |
| 27% | UFOS | 4 | Typically, they turn out to be military aircraft |
| 27% | SHADE | 5 | Hades turned out to be in the shadows |
| 27% | DUD | 3 | Thing that turns out to be a disappointment |
| 27% | THELONG | 7 | With 63-Across, all that needs to be said, or a hint to what's found in each starred answer |
| 27% | UFOS | 4 | Curiosities that often turn out to be drones: Abbr. |
| 27% | UNFINISHED | 10 | With 62-Across, matters left to settle, and what can be found in each set of circled letters? |
| 27% | THERED | 6 | "And without those beans ___ have been no stalk to get up to the giants in the first place!" |
| 27% | EIGHT | 5 | Number that sounds like "ate" or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 7d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 27% | DREAM | 5 | What almost all of "The Wizard of Oz" turned out to be |
| 27% | UFOS | 4 | They often turn out to be just weather balloons or drones: Abbr. |