| 100% | ANIMALCRACKER | 13 | Product with lots of shapes ... or what each of four black squares effectively is? |
| 59% | COOKIE | 6 | With 36-Across, mass-produced ... and what each of four black squares in this puzzle is? |
| 55% | MINCE | 5 | With 45-Across, not be direct ... or what four groups of black squares in this puzzle do? |
| 43% | PIZZATOPPING | 12 | Pepperoni, mushroom or green pepper … or what each cluster of black squares represents in this puzzle |
| 41% | CLUBSANDWICH | 12 | Order served with toothpicks ... and what each of the other four longest answers is? |
| 41% | DARKART | 7 | Witchcraft ... or what each block of three black squares in this puzzle represents? |
| 38% | PARTINGSHOT | 11 | End of a testy exchange, and what can be found four times in this puzzle, thanks to four black squares |
| 38% | ROADBLOCK | 9 | Obstacle ... or any one of four black squares in this puzzle? |
| 37% | HAILSTONE | 9 | What each of the four longest answers is a term for |
| 37% | NONO | 4 | Forbidden thing, and what each of four long answers is? |
| 36% | BENDSTHETRUTH | 13 | Is subtly misleading, or what each of 23- and 47-Across does, figuratively and literally |
| 36% | GETTINGTHEW | 11 | Winning, in sports slang ... and what each of four puzzle answers is doing? |
| 36% | MORNINGPERSON | 13 | Early riser ... or what each of 17-, 24-, 50- and 61-Across is? |
| 36% | SPELLEDOUT | 10 | Explained in great detail ... or what four of this puzzle's clues are? |
| 36% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 35% | ALMOSTNEVER | 11 | Rarely ... or what each set of circled letters is? |
| 35% | ADBLOCK | 7 | Popular browser extension ... or a literal description of four black squares in this puzzle |
| 35% | SQUAREDANCE | 11 | Hoedown activity ... or what each group of circled letters is? |
| 35% | CONARTIST | 9 | Swindler ... or, phonetically, what each of three puzzle answers is? |
| 35% | ROUNDOFAPPLAUSE | 15 | Acknowledgement of success--four are hidden in this puzzle, each adjacent to a black square |
| 35% | LALALAND | 8 | 2016 Gosling/Stone film ... and, as shown by circles, what each of four answers is |
| 35% | HOUSESTYLE | 10 | Publication's unique way of doing things ... or what each of the circled strings is? |
| 34% | THESAURUS | 9 | Writer's reference … or what each row of shaded letters is missing? |
| 34% | GHOSTBUSTERS | 12 | 1984 supernatural movie with a 2016 reboot ... or a description of the black squares between the groups of circles? |
| 34% | SEASON | 6 | With 41-Across, good time for a cliffhanger ... or what each of 17-, 24-, 50- and 63-Across has? |
| 34% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 34% | ANAGRAM | 7 | What each of today's four long answers is vis-à-vis New Year's Eve |
| 34% | OPENINGDAY | 10 | Start of the baseball season ... or what the start of each starred clue is? |
| 34% | DOUBLEBOND | 10 | Chemical link with two pairs of shared electrons, or what each starred answer forms |
| 33% | HOLLYWOODENDING | 15 | 2002 Woody Allen film ... or what each of the last words of 17-, 25- and 42-Across can be |