| 100% | CON | 3 | Prisoner who's escaped from this puzzle's theme answers |
| 69% | THEGRINCH | 9 | Thief who stole the missing letters from this puzzle's theme answers |
| 57% | SNOWMEN | 7 | Winter figures, made from the "bonus" letters in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 53% | SMOKEYBEAR | 10 | Character who's wary of the starts to this puzzle's theme answers |
| 51% | PUN | 3 | Any of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 50% | CHEMICALBONDING | 15 | Attraction suggested by this puzzle's theme answers |
| 50% | THERESNOIINTEAM | 15 | Axiom contradicted by this puzzle's theme answers |
| 50% | MAGI | 4 | Wise guys featured in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 49% | TAKEASTEEPN | 11 | Plummet ... or what this puzzle's theme answers do? |
| 49% | ANO | 3 | New element in each of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 49% | AEIOUY | 6 | Sextet featured in order in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 49% | ACTIONPACKED | 12 | Like exciting comic books ... or this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 48% | OOHS | 4 | Sounds of awe heard twice in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 48% | CATCHAFISH | 10 | Have success angling, and what this puzzle's theme answers do |
| 48% | GRADE | 5 | With 57-Across, GPA lowerer evident in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 48% | CHANGETHESUBJECT | 16 | Switch topics, and a hint to solving this puzzle's theme answers |
| 48% | GOESTOTHEDOGS | 13 | Rapidly deteriorates ... and what each of this puzzle's theme answers does? |
| 48% | ROCKSET | 7 | Description of this puzzle's theme answers, sounding like "The Look" singers? |
| 48% | ALEX | 4 | Trebek who once hosted this puzzle's theme |
| 47% | XED | 3 | Struck out, as one letter in each of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 47% | ELIZA | 5 | Doolittle, whose speech patterns can be heard in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 47% | CRONE | 5 | Witch, and the combination of letters added to this puzzle's theme answers |
| 47% | ELMORE | 6 | "Rum Punch" writer Leonard, and a hint to this puzzle's theme answers |
| 47% | BROKENPROMISE | 13 | Certain moral lapse, and a hint to what's hidden in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 47% | FRESHSTART | 10 | New beginning, as spelled by the new beginnings in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 47% | PUTAPININIT | 11 | "Hold that thought," and what we've done to this puzzle's theme answers |
| 47% | OSCARTHEGROUCH | 14 | Sesame Street resident who'd appreciate this puzzle's theme |
| 46% | DRONE | 5 | Bee formed by the letters heard at the starts of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 46% | CRUNCHTIME | 10 | Do-or-die moment, or what you must do to this puzzle's theme answers |
| 46% | INOVERTIME | 10 | When some contests are resolved, and a hint to ending this puzzle's theme answers |