| 100% | CATBURGLAR | 10 | Person who's inexplicably struck four clues in this puzzle, rather than their answers |
| 37% | GIVEMESOMESPACE | 15 | Request needed to understand four clues in this puzzle |
| 36% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 36% | NDA | 3 | Confidentiality contract initials found in this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 35% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| 35% | PUBLICEDUCATION | 15 | What this puzzle's four missing clues spell, in order |
| 34% | GEM | 3 | Stone that's "cut" in this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 34% | ABBR | 4 | Clue hint used four times in this puzzle (but can't be used here because it would give away the answer) |
| 34% | CAPITALLETTER | 13 | Feature replaced in four clues in this puzzle |
| 34% | HOLLYWOOD | 9 | With 61-Across, 1987 Robert Townsend satire ... or a hint to deciphering four clues in this puzzle |
| 33% | READMUSIC | 9 | Follow a composer's notation ... or a hint to interpreting four clues in this puzzle |
| 33% | PER | 3 | A pop, and what's hiding in this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 33% | ATOMICNUMBERS | 13 | What this puzzle's two-letter answers correspond with, given their locations in the grid |
| 32% | TTOPS | 5 | Features of some sports cars, and what this puzzle's four longest answers have in common |
| 32% | RUNUPATAB | 9 | Accumulate charges … or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle |
| 32% | EDS | 3 | People who'd correct the typoe in this clue, for short |
| 32% | OSCAR | 5 | Muppet who loves this puzzle's four longest answers? |
| 32% | NES | 3 | 23 answers in today's puzzle that don't seem to match their clues |
| 32% | FLIMFLAMARTISTS | 15 | People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 31% | ONEA | 4 | In this puzzle, it’s clued as “Feeling :(” |
| 31% | OVERDOG | 7 | Person who's dominant in their field |
| 31% | SECRET | 6 | When revealed in this puzzle, it reverses the meanings of the answers to the starred clues |
| 31% | MIXEDDRINK | 10 | What's clued in parentheses for each of four answers, and found in corresponding sets of puzzle circles |
| 31% | JULIACHILD | 10 | Chef quoted in this puzzle's starred clues |
| 31% | ONE | 3 | Number of Zs in this puzzle's answers |
| 31% | THREELETTERWORD | 15 | Something not found in this puzzle's answer |
| 30% | DOUBLENEGATIVE | 14 | Grammatical faux pas seen in four of this puzzle’s clues . . . and, in a different way, their answers? |
| 30% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
| 30% | MAGI | 4 | Wise guys featured in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 30% | DEN | 3 | Room divided in this puzzle's four longest entries |