| 100% | SPOTREMOVER | 11 | Product used on four of this puzzle's clues |
| 55% | BOTTOMLINE | 10 | Upshot, so to speak . . . or something missing from a capital letter in four of this puzzle’s clues? |
| 55% | DOUBLENEGATIVE | 14 | Grammatical faux pas seen in four of this puzzle’s clues . . . and, in a different way, their answers? |
| 52% | SPELLEDOUT | 10 | Explained in great detail ... or what four of this puzzle's clues are? |
| 49% | IOERROR | 7 | Computer glitch responsible for four of this puzzle's answers |
| 49% | OWO | 3 | Surprised emoticon hidden in four of this puzzle's answers |
| 48% | SUGGESTIONBOXES | 15 | Slotted containers, and a clue to four of this puzzle's squares |
| 48% | LEGUP | 5 | Boost, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| 48% | KITTYCORNER | 11 | Diagonally ... or a hint to four of this puzzle's squares |
| 48% | INREVERSE | 9 | Backwards, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| 48% | LONG | 4 | Word interpreted literally in completing four of this puzzle's answers |
| 48% | ACROSS | 6 | Like approximately half of this puzzle’s clues, directionally |
| 48% | ERR | 3 | Use the answer to any of this puzzle's starred clues in ordinary conversation? |
| 48% | INTHEDARK | 9 | Wild guess, and a hint to four of this puzzle's squares |
| 47% | EGS | 3 | This puzzle's clues have two of them |
| 47% | AINTTHATTHEPITS | 15 | "Man, what a bummer!"...and a hint to four of this puzzle's blocks |
| 46% | THE | 3 | Article that doesn’t appear in any of this puzzle’s clues |
| 46% | OLD | 3 | Unlike the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 46% | CHECKALL | 8 | With 39-Down, fulfill requirements ... or how to fill four of this puzzle's squares? |
| 46% | ROLLINGBLACKOUT | 15 | Temporary, controlled power shutdown … or a hint to reading four of this puzzle's answers |
| 46% | INVISIBLEINK | 12 | What six of this puzzle's clues have been written with? |
| 45% | CTR | 3 | Abbr. found at the 56-Down of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 45% | CVS | 3 | Brief résumés, and an apt description of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 45% | THE | 3 | Word that appears in ten of this puzzle's clues |
| 44% | LATERALSYMMETRY | 15 | Feature of this puzzle's grid and the answers to the six starred clues |
| 44% | INONESENSE | 10 | Description of this puzzle's circled letters, and a clue to what they spell |
| 44% | PUBLICEDUCATION | 15 | What this puzzle's four missing clues spell, in order |
| 43% | ASYMMETRY | 9 | Feature of this puzzle that's "fixed" by a literal reading of four squares |
| 43% | FOOT | 4 | Body part whose parts are aptly found at the bottom of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 42% | NECKING | 7 | Making out ... or a hint to this puzzle's four hidden articles of clothing |