| 100% | WORDLE | 6 | Puzzle to find a five-letter word in six guesses |
| 52% | CORNERSTONE | 11 | Place to find a date ... and any one of four in this puzzle (circled letters are hints) |
| 49% | WIGGLEROOM | 10 | Space to maneuver, or a hint to five sets of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 49% | EASYONTHEEYES | 13 | Good-looking ... or a phonetic hint to a feature found five times in this puzzle |
| 48% | YOUDONTSAY | 10 | "Is that so?," or a hint to the communication methods found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 47% | KITKATMINIS | 11 | Bite-size chocolate-covered wafers ... or a hint to what's found in five squares in this puzzle |
| 47% | ASTARISBORN | 11 | Thrice-remade movie … or, when parsed as six words, a hint to the theme clues in this puzzle |
| 47% | WESTERNUNION | 12 | Big name in money transfers, and a hint to the neighbors found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 46% | DOLLARSANDCENTS | 15 | Money ... or a hint to how six crossings in this puzzle are to be represented, superimposing one letter over another |
| 46% | DEAR | 4 | First word in a letter to Santa |
| 45% | DEAR | 4 | Starting word in a letter to someone you love |
| 44% | AEIOU | 5 | Letters found in a so-called "supervocalic" word |
| 44% | TRAPPED | 7 | Confined, like five letters in this puzzle that spell an apt word |
| 43% | THATSMYCUE | 10 | Words before entering ... and a hint to five puzzle answers |
| 43% | BRITISHISMS | 11 | Words found in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 42% | SON | 3 | Word whose letters are aptly found from left to right in "scion" |
| 42% | DOWNATTHEHEELS | 14 | Tattered, and a hint to six answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | GREAT | 5 | Word whose letters are used to spell this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 42% | LOSTART | 7 | Letter writing, they say ... or a hint to eight answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | MIXEDNUTS | 9 | Party snack ... or a hint to six squares in this puzzle |
| 42% | OFFSIDES | 8 | Football offense ... or a hint to six answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | CEREALBOX | 9 | Life preserver? ... or a hint to six squares in this puzzle |
| 42% | ICEBOXES | 8 | Fridges' predecessors, and a hint to six squares in this puzzle |
| 42% | STARCROSSED | 11 | Ill-fated ... or a hint to six squares in this puzzle |
| 42% | RIGHTONCUE | 10 | Prompt ... or a hint to entering five answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | ATTHEDROPOFAHAT | 15 | Without hesitating, and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | ADDAMS | 6 | Surname of a family whose members can be found in nine rows in this puzzle ... and whose names contain circled letters that, reading down, spell a word describing them |
| 41% | SPILLTHEB | 9 | Blab ... or a literal hint to completing five answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | RIGHTLYSO | 9 | For good reason, and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | SWITCHBLADE | 11 | Street weapon ... or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |