| 100% | FOUR | 4 | Minimum number of times each letter of the alphabet appears in this puzzle's solution |
| 59% | QUINTUPLE | 9 | Like each letter of the alphabet in this puzzle, at minimum |
| 48% | EIGHT | 5 | Total number of letters of the alphabet used in this puzzle |
| 46% | ZIP | 3 | Each of the numbers in this puzzle's theme |
| 45% | HALF | 4 | First ___ (only portion of the alphabet used in this puzzle's grid) |
| 45% | TIRE | 4 | Bad thing to blow ... or what each of the circled letters in this puzzle represents |
| 45% | TWO | 3 | Number of words beginning with the letter "f" in this puzzle |
| 44% | PLATO | 5 | Speaker of the quote found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 43% | CANADIANPROVINCE | 16 | What each of the 10 abbreviations in this puzzle's answer stands for |
| 43% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter "C" |
| 42% | ATOZ | 4 | The works ... or how each set of circled letters in this puzzle is arranged |
| 41% | MISSING | 7 | Like the letter O in this puzzle’s entire solution |
| 41% | GETOVERIT | 9 | "Enough of the pity party!" ... and what appears four times in this puzzle? |
| 40% | GIFT | 4 | Traditional 61-Across surprise, aptly boxed, and spelled with the only four letters of the alphabet that don't appear elsewhere in this grid |
| 40% | TREE | 4 | Thing hidden in each of the movie names in this puzzle |
| 40% | DONUT | 5 | Treat whose varieties appear at the starts of four long answers and are represented a dozen times in this puzzle |
| 40% | FOUR | 4 | The number of letters in this clue's answer |
| 40% | BOX | 3 | Enclosure ... and an alphabetical listing of letters not appearing elsewhere in this puzzle's answer |
| 40% | EYE | 3 | Either of the circled letters in 4-Across, for this puzzle's face |
| 40% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 40% | FOUR | 4 | Number of letters in our contest answer--and the number of letters between certain pairs of letters in this puzzle |
| 39% | AFTERTHOUGHT | 12 | “P.S.” comment ... or where the ends of eight answers in this puzzle might appear? |
| 39% | XED | 3 | Struck out, as one letter in each of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 39% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 39% | THREE | 5 | Number of squares in the width and height of this puzzle's city blocks |
| 39% | ASTERISK | 8 | * (And by the way, her name appears in this puzzle 16 times) |
| 38% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 38% | BATMAN | 6 | 1960s TV icon whose name follows a pair of letters found, appropriately, 16 times in this puzzle's Across answers |
| 38% | NEWYEARSEVE | 11 | Time to sing the tune suggested by the starts of 10 long answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | SERPENTINE | 10 | Snaking, like the arrangement of circled letters in this puzzle |