| 100% | HEADCOLD | 8 | Malady that accounts for four Across puzzle answers |
| 41% | XFACTOR | 7 | Intangible quality responsible for four puzzle answers |
| 41% | PRMAN | 5 | Ad guy responsible for four long puzzle answers? |
| 39% | IOERROR | 7 | Computer glitch responsible for four of this puzzle's answers |
| 38% | DIVEBAR | 7 | Seedy hangout ... or a hint to finishing four Across answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle |
| 37% | MOVESOVER | 9 | Makes room, and when parsed differently, an instruction for four answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | DOWNUNDER | 9 | Nickname for 18-Across, and a hint to how four answers in this puzzle are to be entered |
| 37% | OVERLOADED | 10 | Carrying way too much, and a punny description of four Across answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | APIN | 4 | "Put ___ in it," advice for solving four answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | GREEK | 5 | The short letters that the four longest Across answers end with |
| 36% | PESTS | 5 | Ones that have infested four puzzle answers |
| 36% | MOBILEAPP | 9 | Software for your phone, and a clue to four other Across answers |
| 35% | THEIDES | 7 | Date that provides a phonetic hint to four other answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | BANDE | 5 | Burglary, for short ... and a hint to this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 35% | HOTSTUFF | 8 | 1979 #1 hit for Donna Summer, and what the four longest Across answers are |
| 35% | NETSALES | 8 | Stat that accounts for refunds |
| 34% | ETA | 3 | GPS prediction that accounts for traffic |
| 34% | THEWEARING | 10 | With 112 Across, Irish street ballad that serves as an alternate title for this puzzle |
| 34% | GEM | 3 | Stone that's "cut" in this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 33% | FIRE | 4 | What ''bridges'' four Across answers |
| 33% | TOSSACOIN | 9 | Perform a pregame NFL ritual ... or, in four parts, phrase that hints at seven long Across answers |
| 33% | MIXEDDRINK | 10 | What's clued in parentheses for each of four answers, and found in corresponding sets of puzzle circles |
| 32% | SLEDGEHAMMER | 12 | Song that accounted for 9 of the 10 MTV Video Music Awards won by 17-Across in 1987 |
| 32% | SOS | 3 | Call for assistance hidden in the four longest puzzle answers |
| 32% | THROW | 5 | Light bed cover ... and a verb that goes with the first parts of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 32% | DIGITALDIVIDE | 13 | It separates those with access to technology and those without, and a feature of four answers in this puzzle |
| 32% | NETFLIX | 7 | Company that accounts for roughly 13% of global internet traffic |
| 31% | STARTFROM | 9 | With 58-Across, what four Down answers in this puzzle do |
| 31% | INTHECORNER | 11 | This puzzle's answer to 35-Across (spelled out four times) |