| 100% | COCONUT | 7 | Palm fruit ... or what the creator of this puzzle's theme apparently is? |
| 45% | ITTEAM | 6 | Group of PC experts ... or what this puzzle’s 10 theme answers are? |
| 44% | HAPPINESS | 9 | What the science of well-being studies ... and the theme of this puzzle |
| 44% | ARMS | 4 | What are featured in the theme entries of this puzzle |
| 43% | FILM | 4 | What each of this puzzle's songs also was, once you do the math |
| 43% | WAITING | 7 | On hold ... or what the seven rows of black squares in this puzzle's grid spell in Morse code |
| 42% | AGEDIFFERENCE | 13 | 83, for the creators of this puzzle ... or a hint to the ends of 17-, 25-, 51- and 60-Across |
| 42% | MEATSUBSTITUTES | 15 | Vegetarian options … or what the shaded letters in this puzzle are, phonetically |
| 41% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 41% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 41% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 40% | PALINDROMICWORD | 15 | What every answer on the perimeter of this puzzle is |
| 40% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 40% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 40% | OXYMORONS | 9 | What the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all are |
| 40% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 39% | JULES | 5 | With 141-Down, author whose work is the basis of this puzzle's theme |
| 39% | FALLLEAVES | 10 | Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle? |
| 39% | HANDS | 5 | What are needed to play the last-word theme of the puzzle |
| 39% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 39% | TIRE | 4 | Bad thing to blow ... or what each of the circled letters in this puzzle represents |
| 39% | AREYOUFORREAL | 13 | "Seriously?!" … or what one might ask of the answers to starred clues in this puzzle? |
| 39% | CROSSREFERENCES | 15 | "See also" notations ... or what can be found in the circled squares in this puzzle? |
| 39% | TWELFTHMAN | 10 | Home-field advantage in football ... or what the last square of the answer to this clue represents in this puzzle |
| 39% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 39% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 39% | CASTING | 7 | With 146-Across, what the center of this puzzle is doing during a 125-Across |
| 38% | MAANDPA | 7 | Kettles ... or the theme of this puzzle |
| 38% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 38% | NOID | 4 | Reason to be barred from a bar ... or the theme of this puzzle |