| 100% | ACR | 3 | Like horizontal puzzle answers (Abbr.) |
| 73% | ACR | 3 | Like horizontal crossword answers (Abbr.) |
| 53% | ACROSS | 6 | Like many of this puzzle's answers |
| 53% | ACROSS | 6 | Like 36 of this puzzle's answers |
| 52% | MISPELLED | 9 | Like the six longest answers in this puzzle |
| 51% | SPUNAROUND | 10 | Like the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 50% | HALFBAKED | 9 | Like the answers to this puzzle's 12 asterisked clues? |
| 50% | ACTIONPACKED | 12 | Like exciting comic books ... or this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 50% | CARBONFREE | 10 | Like renewable energy ... or nine long answers in this puzzle? |
| 50% | TEEDOFF | 7 | Steamed ... and like five answers in this puzzle? |
| 49% | HIDDEN | 6 | Like the identified car models inside this puzzle's long answers |
| 49% | HAUNTED | 7 | Full of ghosts ... like four answers in this puzzle? |
| 48% | LOSTINTHESHUFFLE | 16 | Like this puzzle's circled letters vis-à-vis their Across answers |
| 48% | SUNNYSIDEUP | 11 | Like some eggs . . . and how four answers are presented in this puzzle |
| 48% | JOINEDATTHEHIP | 14 | Inseparable ... or like three pairs of answers in this puzzle? |
| 48% | UTTERLYCLUELESS | 15 | Lost, like three answers in this puzzle, literally and figuratively |
| 48% | ALLTIEDUP | 9 | Even … or like three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | STARSTUDDED | 11 | Like the Oscars ... or the answers to this puzzle's seven asterisked clues? |
| 47% | CTR | 3 | Abbr. found at the 56-Down of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 47% | NOGO | 4 | Canceled, like a mission ... or like four answers in this puzzle? |
| 47% | OPERA | 5 | Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one |
| 46% | EVEN | 4 | Like each answer in this puzzle - also each word in each clue - in length |
| 46% | ROCKSET | 7 | Description of this puzzle's theme answers, sounding like "The Look" singers? |
| 46% | GOBACKANDFORTH | 14 | Move like eight long answers in this puzzle |
| 45% | SOLUTION | 8 | Puzzle answer |
| 43% | BENTOUT | 7 | With 86-Down, very upset ... like the answers to five of this puzzle's clues? |
| 42% | SOLS | 4 | Answers: abbr. |
| 42% | REDSHIFTED | 10 | Like light from stars moving away from us ... or like the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? |
| 42% | RESP | 4 | Answer: Abbr. |
| 41% | FORCEDENTRY | 11 | Farfetched puzzle answer? |