| 100% | FIREWALL | 8 | Network-security option . . . or what’s creating a barrier within four of this puzzle’s answers |
| 52% | ROLLINGBLACKOUT | 15 | Temporary, controlled power shutdown … or a hint to reading four of this puzzle's answers |
| 48% | LEGUP | 5 | Boost, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| 48% | INREVERSE | 9 | Backwards, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| 47% | KITTYCORNER | 11 | Diagonally ... or a hint to four of this puzzle's squares |
| 46% | FORMLETTERS | 11 | Impersonal notes ... or what four groups of this puzzle's answers do (totaling 11 words) |
| 46% | AINTTHATTHEPITS | 15 | "Man, what a bummer!"...and a hint to four of this puzzle's blocks |
| 45% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 45% | FLIP | 4 | With 65-Across, part of a record ... or what each of this puzzle's five long Across answers has? |
| 44% | CHUCKLEHEAD | 11 | Nincompoop ... or a feature of this puzzle's themed answers? |
| 44% | CUTFROMTHESAMECLOTH | 19 | Having similar qualities ... or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle are? |
| 44% | EMIGRATION | 10 | Exodus, or a literal feature of this puzzle's starred answers |
| 43% | RAMPUP | 6 | Increase rapidly ... or a hint to connecting four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | MINDOVERMATTER | 14 | Slogan about willpower ... or a hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | OPPOSITESATTRACT | 16 | Dating axiom … or a hint to interpreting four pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | GRECOROMAN | 10 | Kind of wrestling ... or a hint to four pairs of crossing answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | LATESHIFT | 9 | Overnight work assignment … or a hint to understanding four rows of answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | DOUBLENEGATIVES | 15 | Some grammatical no-nos … or a description of four pairs of answers in this puzzle? |
| 43% | COVERALLTHEBASES | 16 | Take care of everything … or a hint to what four squares in this puzzle do |
| 43% | NOUSE | 5 | Pointless, or a phonetic hint to five of this puzzle's long answers |
| 43% | THEOKCORRAL | 11 | See 28-Down ... or a punny description of this puzzle's circled answers? |
| 43% | STEERTSYAWOWT | 13 | Many thoroughfares ... or what this puzzle's Across answers consist of? |
| 43% | DOUBLENEGATIVE | 14 | Grammatical faux pas seen in four of this puzzle’s clues . . . and, in a different way, their answers? |
| 43% | INTHECROSSHAIRS | 15 | Fixed as a target ... or a hint to four pairs of intersecting answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | BLACKOPS | 8 | Covert missions ... or what's covert in eight of this puzzle's answers |
| 42% | 24KMAGIC | 8 | Grammy-winning Bruno Mars album of 2016 … or a hint to an unusual feature of this puzzle's answer grid |
| 42% | PEND | 4 | Remain unsettled, or, read as two words, what five of this puzzle's long answers have |
| 42% | TURNSOFPHRASE | 13 | Distinctive ways to express things, or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle could be said to constitute |
| 41% | EXCHANGINGRINGS | 15 | Sharing in a symbol of commitment … or what four rows in this puzzle are doing to form new phrases |
| 41% | TRIPOLI | 7 | Capital of Libya, and a phonetic hint to a feature of this puzzle's four longest answers |