| 100% | CROSSWORD | 9 | Printed puzzle with cryptic clues |
| 54% | CROSSWORD | 9 | Puzzle with clues |
| 51% | CROSSWORDS | 10 | Puzzles with across and down clues |
| 48% | LOGIC | 5 | __ problem, puzzle with clues to work through |
| 45% | MYSTERY | 7 | Genre with secrets, puzzles and clues |
| 45% | REBUS | 5 | Type of puzzle with a combination of image and letter clues |
| 44% | ESCAPE | 6 | __ room; team game with clues and puzzle-solving |
| 41% | THINK | 5 | With 61-Across, carefully consider ... or a clue to this puzzle's theme |
| 41% | START | 5 | All the clues in this puzzle do this with 36-Across |
| 41% | INVISIBLEINK | 12 | What six of this puzzle's clues have been written with? |
| 40% | OUTER | 5 | With 45-Across, hurricane-prone area, and a clue to this puzzle's edges |
| 40% | RIGHTONR | 8 | Legal maneuver ... with a hint to answering seven clues in this puzzle |
| 40% | CHEXCEREALS | 11 | General Mills line, with a homophonic clue to this puzzle's circles |
| 39% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 39% | BENTOUT | 7 | With 86-Down, very upset ... like the answers to five of this puzzle's clues? |
| 39% | XANDY | 5 | With 30-Across, what most numbers in the clues of this year's puzzles represent |
| 38% | REBUS | 5 | Puzzle with pictures |
| 38% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle with barriers |
| 38% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle with paths |
| 38% | REBUS | 5 | Puzzle with symbols |
| 38% | REBUS | 5 | Puzzle with drawings |
| 38% | MAZES | 5 | Puzzles with walls |
| 38% | AMOAMASAMAT | 11 | School phrase with a clue to this puzzle's theme |
| 38% | HOLLYWOOD | 9 | With 61-Across, 1987 Robert Townsend satire ... or a hint to deciphering four clues in this puzzle |
| 38% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 38% | Y=X | 3 | Basic linear expression with a hint to answering the five starred clues in this puzzle |
| 37% | REBUS | 5 | Puzzle with plus signs |
| 37% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle with dead ends |
| 37% | JIGSAW | 6 | Puzzle with many pieces |
| 37% | ACROSTIC | 8 | Puzzle with a quotation |