| 100% | BLANK | 5 | Like the squares in this crossword before you fill them in |
| 43% | HTEAAIDLS | 9 | Winner of the wager in 17-/56-Across, depending on how you fill the circled squares in this puzzle |
| 42% | FALLINGDOWN | 11 | Like the contents of this puzzle's circled squares, in a nursery rhyme |
| 41% | MINI | 4 | Like the small daily crossword in this game |
| 39% | EMBEDDED | 8 | Like aleph in the central black squares of this puzzle's grid |
| 39% | END | 3 | Like this clue's position in the crossword |
| 38% | NOTUPTOPAR | 10 | Like the duffer in this puzzle? |
| 38% | ALLLOWERCASE | 12 | like the letters in this clue |
| 38% | SINUS | 5 | You need this like you need a hole in the head |
| 37% | TBIRD | 5 | Classic car ... and a hint to the hidden image you can draw using 21 identical squares in this grid |
| 36% | FULLOFIT | 8 | Spouting nonsense, like 10 squares in this puzzle |
| 36% | APPEARED | 8 | Showed up, like the fruits in this puzzle |
| 36% | SUPERIOR | 8 | Like the 2 in "x squared" |
| 36% | BLANC | 5 | Like many squares in a French crossword |
| 36% | LOWERCASE | 9 | like all the letters in this clue |
| 36% | MAKEUPARTISTS | 13 | Some movie set workers … or what you do when filling in the shaded squares? |
| 35% | BREAKALEG | 9 | Well wishes before a performance, and what you do by filling in the circles |
| 35% | DOWN | 4 | What the "d" in this crossword clue number means |
| 35% | DANDELION | 9 | ... this just before you blow on the seeds |
| 34% | ALPHABETICORDER | 15 | Puzzler's alert: the clues in this crossword are all in this |
| 34% | FLIPFLOPPED | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 34% | MOVEDAROUND | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 34% | OUTOFORDER | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 34% | REARRANGED | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 34% | STRANDSOFADOUBLEHELIX | 21 | What the highlighted squares in this puzzle represent |
| 34% | PAVEDROAD | 9 | What the circled squares in this puzzle symbolize |
| 34% | FREE | 4 | Like the middle square in bingo |
| 34% | QUINTUPLE | 9 | Like each letter of the alphabet in this puzzle, at minimum |
| 34% | TELEPHONE | 9 | Hint to filling in four squares in this puzzle |
| 34% | END | 3 | Bring to an ___ (like this clue in the crossword) |