| 100% | KITCHENMATCH | 12 | Pilot lighter, and a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 82% | SCARYMOVIETWO | 13 | 2001 Wayans Brothers sequel, and a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 75% | POSTHASTE | 9 | With immediacy, or a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 73% | HAMMEDITUP | 10 | Went all out on stage ... or a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 71% | LOWHANGINGFRUIT | 15 | Easy pickings, and a hint to the four other longest Down answers |
| 70% | NONOS | 5 | Taboos, and a hint to the four longest puzzle answers |
| 66% | WIRED | 5 | Tense with excitement ... and a hint to the ends of the four longest puzzle answers |
| 66% | FALLINGLEAVES | 13 | Autumn occurrence, and a hint to the start of the other four longest Down answers |
| 66% | GENEEDITING | 11 | Molecular manipulation technique ... and a hint to the starts of the three other longest puzzle answers |
| 66% | ANIMALHOUSE | 11 | Raucous frat film, and a hint to the starts of the other four long Across answers |
| 66% | EMPTYWORDS | 10 | Blather, and a phonetic hint to the four other longest answers |
| 64% | DPS | 3 | MLB rally killers, briefly, and a hint to what's in the four longest puzzle answers |
| 64% | SHAPESHIFTERS | 13 | Amorphous sci-fi beings, and a hint to what's hidden in the four other longest answers |
| 64% | DEUCESWILD | 10 | Card game declaration, and a hint to what can be found in the four other longest answers |
| 63% | SEWNUP | 6 | Clinched, and a hint to the four longest Across answers |
| 62% | RANDOMORDER | 11 | Ideal deck-shuffling goal ... and a hint to a hidden word, and how it appears, in the four other longest answers |
| 61% | POWERCOUPLE | 11 | Influential pairing, and a hint to the circles in four puzzle answers |
| 61% | EMMY | 4 | TV award, and a homophonic hint to the four longest puzzle answers |
| 60% | ILLSECONDTHAT | 13 | "Amen!" ... or a hint to the start of four other long answers |
| 59% | DOUBLEDOG | 9 | Schoolyard dare intensifier ... and a hint to the five other longest answers |
| 58% | BANDE | 5 | Burglary, for short ... and a hint to this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 58% | NOWYOUSEEITNOWYOUDONT | 21 | Magic words … or a hint to the other long answers in this puzzle |
| 58% | PANDL | 5 | CFO's monetary report, and a hint to this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 58% | END | 3 | With 72-Across, evasive strategy ... and a hint to the last several letters of the four longest Across answers |
| 58% | JUICEUP | 7 | Supercharge, and a hint to what's literally hiding in the four longest Down answers |
| 56% | SIDEARM | 7 | Like some baseball pitches ... and a hint to locating the second part of four three-part puzzle answers |
| 56% | STORMYWEATHER | 13 | Song first sung by Ethel Waters at Harlem's Cotton Club ... and a hint to four other long answers |
| 56% | SPLITENDS | 9 | Perm problem, and a hint to the four two-part answers |
| 55% | LOOSELEAF | 9 | Kind of paper ... and a hint to a sequence, each starting with a different letter, found in four other puzzle answers |
| 55% | WATER | 5 | With the answer below, dilute ... and a hint to the four longest answers |