| 100% | REBUS | 5 | Puzzle where ''or'' is an oar |
| 63% | STUDIO | 6 | Where an album or a painting might be created |
| 62% | VENUE | 5 | Place where an event or conference is held |
| 58% | FINISHINGSCHOOL | 15 | Where social graces were once taught ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 58% | ITUNES | 6 | Where to find the songs in this grid ... or an appropriate title for this puzzle? |
| 57% | APTEST | 6 | Exam for an ambitious H.S. student ... or what this puzzle has been? |
| 55% | ATSEA | 5 | Clueless ... or where the answers to this puzzle's starred clues were all first used |
| 55% | PAINT | 5 | 1966 Rolling Stones hit ... or an instruction to be followed four times in this puzzle |
| 54% | HOGWARTS | 8 | Where Arithmancy is an elective |
| 54% | BACKTOSQUAREONE | 15 | Where you may go after reaching an impasse … or a hint for solving this puzzle's 12 starred clues |
| 54% | CRACKINGTHECODE | 15 | Arriving at an “Aha!” moment . . . or what this puzzle is doing vis-à-vis its circled letters |
| 54% | HALFTHEBATTLE | 13 | Important part of an undertaking . . . or what can be found in eight of this puzzle’s answers? |
| 53% | ERITREA | 7 | Where Tigrinya is an official language |
| 53% | WITHINSIGHT | 11 | Visible ... or, literally, where most inner letters of this puzzle's eight other longest Across answers are situated |
| 52% | KNOWSEVERYANGLE | 15 | Is an expert on this puzzle's theme? |
| 51% | EVEN | 4 | "It is an odd number or ___?" |
| 51% | ARM | 3 | Where an elbow is |
| 51% | ARM | 3 | Where an ulna is |
| 51% | REBUS | 5 | Puzzle in which an oar may stand for "or" |
| 51% | AHEADOFTHEGAME | 14 | In an advantageous position, or where both halves of the answers to 20-, 26-, and 44-Across can be placed? |
| 50% | MAINE | 5 | Where "ayuh" is an affirmative |
| 50% | WAIST | 5 | Where an obi is worn |
| 50% | EAR | 3 | Where an AirPod is inserted |
| 50% | EAR | 3 | Where an AirPod is placed |
| 50% | TAC | 3 | It may be an X or an O |
| 50% | SPIRIT | 6 | A fiend is an evil __, demon, or spook |
| 50% | PEAR | 4 | Fruit that can be an Anjou or Bosc |
| 50% | ATTENDING | 9 | Going to or being present at an event |
| 49% | INSET | 5 | Where many an island is found |
| 49% | GYPSYCRYPT | 10 | Where an old wanderer is interred? |