| 100% | FLIMFLAMARTISTS | 15 | People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 64% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 58% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 54% | FALLLEAVES | 10 | Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle? |
| 51% | BUGS | 4 | They're found at the end of this puzzle's longest answers |
| 49% | LOOPS | 5 | What the paths of three answers in this puzzle include |
| 48% | SANDWICHSHOP | 12 | Its menu might include the ends of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | FAIRYTALEENDING | 15 | What’s spelled out by the starts of six answers in this puzzle |
| 46% | IMAGINARYNUMBER | 15 | What ends each of five answers in this puzzle, in a way? |
| 46% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 46% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| 45% | AFTERTHOUGHT | 12 | “P.S.” comment ... or where the ends of eight answers in this puzzle might appear? |
| 45% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 45% | FIRSTAMENDMENT | 14 | Source of the freedoms found at the ends of this puzzle's four other longest answers |
| 45% | HALLE | 5 | ___ Berry, actress with roles found at the starts of three answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | JAMESMICHENER | 13 | Author of the novels whose titles are the starts of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | CANADIANPROVINCE | 16 | What each of the 10 abbreviations in this puzzle's answer stands for |
| 43% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 42% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 42% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 42% | CLOCK | 5 | Instrument that hints at the missing parts of certain answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | PRIMETIMEEMMY | 13 | What each of the programs in this puzzle has won at least once |
| 41% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 41% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 41% | CTR | 3 | Abbr. found at the 56-Down of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 41% | LITTHEOLYMPICCAULDRON | 21 | What this puzzle’s featured athletes did in the years indicated |
| 41% | DECLARATION | 11 | With 114-Across, source of the phrase formed by the ends of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | UTTERNONSENSE | 13 | What you find in eight of this puzzle's answers...or what you do when you say them aloud? |
| 40% | RECYCLEDMETAL | 13 | Scrapyard commodity ... and what's hidden in the nine other longest puzzle answers |
| 40% | TAKEABOW | 8 | What performers do at the end of a play |