| 100% | ISOGRAM | 7 | Phrase with no repeated letters (like each of this puzzle’s seven longest answers) |
| 53% | OPERA | 5 | Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one |
| 47% | CONSONANT | 9 | Something each of this puzzle's answers begins with |
| 46% | FIFTHWHEEL | 10 | Awkward presence on a double date . . . like each of this puzzle’s circled letters? |
| 42% | XED | 3 | Struck out, as one letter in each of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 41% | TOE | 3 | Digit associated with the starts of this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 40% | FLIP | 4 | With 65-Across, part of a record ... or what each of this puzzle's five long Across answers has? |
| 40% | ACROSS | 6 | Like many of this puzzle's answers |
| 40% | ACROSS | 6 | Like 36 of this puzzle's answers |
| 40% | PINACOLADA | 10 | What I'm going to have after I've finished writing these clues and it's spelled out with the first two letters of five of the longest puzzle answers |
| 40% | ANO | 3 | New element in each of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 40% | LAD | 3 | Youth found in this puzzle's seven longest answers |
| 39% | QUINTUPLE | 9 | Like each letter of the alphabet in this puzzle, at minimum |
| 39% | TAKE | 4 | With this puzzle's circled letters, exercise a certain constitutional right, and how to answer each starred clue |
| 39% | GOESTOTHEDOGS | 13 | Rapidly deteriorates ... and what each of this puzzle's theme answers does? |
| 39% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |
| 39% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 38% | SIDECAR | 7 | Cognac-and-Cointreau drink, and what each of this puzzle's border answers is |
| 38% | MISSINGINGREDIENT | 17 | Feature of this puzzle (hint: string together the letters omitted from the starts of 10 long answers) |
| 38% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 38% | NOUSE | 5 | Pointless, or a phonetic hint to five of this puzzle's long answers |
| 37% | BUGS | 4 | They're found at the end of this puzzle's longest answers |
| 37% | ROCKSET | 7 | Description of this puzzle's theme answers, sounding like "The Look" singers? |
| 37% | STICK | 5 | Feature of this puzzle's three long Down answers |
| 37% | QUADRUPLEDOUBLE | 15 | Super-rare basketball feat ... or what each of six long answers in this puzzle contains |
| 37% | HIDDENBODYPARTS | 15 | This completed puzzle has 10 of them, each three letters long, reading diagonally |
| 37% | OLD | 3 | Unlike the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 37% | ABBY | 4 | ___ Wambach, teammate of this puzzle's three longest answers |
| 36% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Basketball stat, and what can be found in six of this puzzle's long answers |
| 36% | LPS | 3 | Old records ... or a hint for this puzzle's seven longest answers |