| 100% | REDEFINED | 9 | Like nine words in this puzzle, or what their first letters spell out |
| 53% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 47% | DISUNION | 8 | State of division, and what the first letters of the states divided across black squares in this puzzle spell out |
| 44% | TARA | 4 | Author Westover whose memoir is spelled out in the first letters of this puzzle's eight circled schools |
| 44% | PHONETIC | 8 | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 44% | TRAPPED | 7 | Confined, like five letters in this puzzle that spell an apt word |
| 43% | FORK | 4 | What the letters added to the four "stirred" words in this puzzle spell |
| 42% | PEOPLEOFNOTE | 12 | Luminaries like the eight featured in this puzzle? (hint: look at their first few letters) |
| 42% | NAMEOFTHEGAME | 13 | Something's essential aspect ... or what's spelled out by letters in this puzzle's eight "cups" |
| 42% | FLIPS | 5 | What each word of six or more letters in this puzzle does |
| 42% | RAMP | 4 | What each circled model in this puzzle ascends or descends, and what's spelled by the letters where the models cross |
| 42% | IRATE | 5 | What nine key words in this puzzle are synonyms of |
| 39% | ABRIDGED | 8 | Shortened, and what the letters removed from eight novels in this puzzle spell out |
| 38% | HAND | 4 | Poker holding ... like the one spelled out in the letters that cut this puzzle's circled cards |
| 38% | CROSS | 5 | What words do in a puzzle like this one |
| 37% | RISING | 6 | Ascendant, like four words in this puzzle |
| 37% | BEFOREHAND | 10 | In advance ... or where nine key words in this puzzle might appear |
| 37% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter "C" |
| 37% | ELBA | 4 | Island whose name is another word in this puzzle spelled backward |
| 37% | PLOT | 4 | What's spelled out, appropriately, after mapping the coordinates indicated by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 36% | MEATSUBSTITUTES | 15 | Vegetarian options … or what the shaded letters in this puzzle are, phonetically |
| 36% | FAIRYTALEENDING | 15 | What’s spelled out by the starts of six answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | SHADESOFPINK | 12 | What seven key words in this puzzle are |
| 35% | CARBONFREE | 10 | Like renewable energy ... or nine long answers in this puzzle? |
| 35% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 35% | ATOMICNUMBERS | 13 | What this puzzle's two-letter answers correspond with, given their locations in the grid |
| 34% | ACUTABOVETHEREST | 16 | Superior ... or what this puzzle's circled letters represent? |
| 34% | EVEN | 4 | Like each answer in this puzzle - also each word in each clue - in length |
| 34% | UNDERTHEHOOD | 12 | Where nine key words in this puzzle can be found |