| 100% | JUMBLE | 6 | Newspaper puzzle that involves unscrambling words |
| 79% | JUMBLE | 6 | Newspaper puzzle that involves scrambled words |
| 56% | CROSTIC | 7 | Word puzzle that involves a quotation |
| 56% | ACROSTIC | 8 | Word puzzle that involves a quotation |
| 47% | SUDOKU | 6 | Puzzle that involves number placement |
| 46% | ACROSTIC | 8 | Puzzle that involves a quoted passage |
| 45% | WORDLADDER | 10 | Puzzle that involves changing one letter per "rung" |
| 44% | JUMBLE | 6 | Popular newspaper puzzle subtitled "That Scrambled Word Game" |
| 43% | MAZE | 4 | Pencil puzzle that involves finding the correct route |
| 40% | HORSE | 5 | Casual hoops game that involves spelling a word |
| 39% | LOGIC | 5 | Puzzle genre that involves reasoning |
| 38% | SCRAMBLE | 8 | Word puzzle that mixes up all the letters |
| 38% | PUNCH | 5 | Word that completes four phrases in this puzzle |
| 38% | ANAGRAMS | 8 | Word game that involves rearranging letters |
| 38% | THREE | 5 | Word that precedes six other answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | LONGSHOT | 8 | A venture that involves great risk but promises great rewards (2 words) |
| 37% | TRAPPED | 7 | Confined, like five letters in this puzzle that spell an apt word |
| 37% | THE | 3 | Word that appears in ten of this puzzle's clues |
| 35% | REBUS | 5 | Puzzle format that combines pictures with letters to depict words or phrases |
| 35% | HEARTED | 7 | Word that can follow the starts of 11 answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | WORLD | 5 | New York ___, newspaper that published the first crossword puzzle (1913) |
| 35% | USS | 3 | Abbr. that can precede nine key words in this puzzle |
| 35% | CHRISTMAS | 9 | Word that can precede the starts of eight key words in this puzzle |
| 35% | CHEMICALSYMBOLS | 15 | This puzzle's circled letters, for the words that precede them |
| 34% | DAILY | 5 | *Something that happens every day, and a typical word in newspaper titles |
| 33% | HERECOMESTHERAINAGAIN | 21 | 1984 Eurythmics hit that’s apt for six related words in this puzzle |
| 32% | TENSEEXCHANGE | 13 | Back-and-forth involving seven pairs of words in this puzzle's starred answers |
| 32% | MINIBARS | 8 | Hotel room amenities that would aptly contain this puzzle's seven pint-size words? |
| 32% | FORGERY | 7 | Apt word spelled by the new letters that alter this puzzle's seven works |
| 32% | DOCUMENTARIES | 13 | 13-letter word that each theme answer in this puzzle is an anagram of |