| 100% | PINATA | 6 | Party item depicted in the middle of this puzzle's grid |
| 60% | KCALB | 5 | The middle of this puzzle's grid, symbolically |
| 53% | INCANDESCENTLIGHTBULB | 21 | Development of 86-Across ... as depicted in the middle of this grid |
| 51% | INTERCHANGEABLE | 15 | Like the parts of this puzzle's toy, as depicted throughout the grid |
| 49% | BLOCK | 5 | The 2x2 black square near the middle of this puzzle's grid, e.g., which is part of eight answers |
| 49% | HIDINGOUT | 9 | Theme of this puzzle, seen seven times in the grid |
| 49% | CHIMP | 5 | Monkey in the middle (of this puzzle) |
| 49% | SHINYNOSE | 9 | Feature depicted in the upper left of this puzzle |
| 49% | CENTERLINE | 10 | Marking in the middle of the road ... or an alternate title for this puzzle |
| 47% | TWODASHES | 9 | Octet of black squares in the middle of this grid, typographically |
| 47% | DOUBLED*PPERS | 13 | Ones committing a party foul ... or the images depicted in this puzzle's grid? |
| 46% | PH/FONETICALLY | 14 | Middle of the quip ... and a hint to eight squares in this puzzle |
| 46% | EMBEDDED | 8 | Like aleph in the central black squares of this puzzle's grid |
| 46% | MMLI | 4 | Year in the middle of this century |
| 44% | LATERALSYMMETRY | 15 | Feature of this puzzle's grid and the answers to the six starred clues |
| 44% | LIGHTBULB | 9 | Item suggested visually by the black squares in this puzzle's grid |
| 44% | KIDS | 4 | With 70- and 71-Across, what the middle of this puzzle is |
| 43% | FALLINGDOWN | 11 | Like the contents of this puzzle's circled squares, in a nursery rhyme |
| 42% | SHAHJAHAN | 9 | Builder of the monument depicted in this puzzle |
| 42% | NET | 3 | Item in the middle of a volleyball court |
| 42% | NET | 3 | Item in the middle of a badminton court |
| 42% | NET | 3 | Item in the middle of a Ping-Pong table |
| 42% | HALF | 4 | First ___ (only portion of the alphabet used in this puzzle's grid) |
| 41% | ATOMICNUMBERS | 13 | What this puzzle's two-letter answers correspond with, given their locations in the grid |
| 41% | SWISSROLL | 9 | Sweet treat depicted in this puzzle's grid |
| 41% | NONE | 4 | Number of Qs in this puzzle's grid |
| 41% | ONIONDOME | 9 | Prominent feature of 5-/17-Across depicted in this puzzle's grid |
| 40% | THREE | 5 | First digit of this puzzle's subject, whose next four digits are the number of rows and then columns of the grid |
| 40% | LACKINGSYMMETRY | 15 | Descriptive of this puzzle's grid |
| 40% | WAGONOFHEAVEN | 13 | Celestial figure depicted in this puzzle's grid, in Babylonian folklore |