| 100% | HEDGEMAZE | 9 | Puzzle whose walls are alive |
| 51% | JERICHO | 7 | Biblical city whose walls were broken by trumpets |
| 50% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle whose solution is a single path |
| 49% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle whose solution is a single winding path |
| 44% | AIDA | 4 | Work whose title character is buried alive |
| 42% | SEAN | 4 | Connery, whose speaking style is played on in this puzzle |
| 42% | HOLLYWOODSTATE | 14 | Fictitious college whose name would be fitting for this puzzle |
| 42% | REGISTRAR | 9 | Anagram of whose puzzle this is (including the apostrophe "s") |
| 42% | SAMSMITH | 8 | Singer whose Bond theme was Writing's on the Wall |
| 42% | TINSMITH | 8 | Artisan whose work is featured in this puzzle? |
| 41% | ACHRISTMASCAROL | 15 | Classic Dickens title (from whose 10 letters this puzzle was constructed) |
| 41% | LES | 3 | French article whose singular form is "disconnected" from nine puzzle answers |
| 40% | THESTARSPANGLEDBANNER | 21 | This puzzle's theme, whose first notes are indicated by shaded squares |
| 40% | OTHELLO | 7 | Game whose dual-colored pieces are apt for this puzzle's theme |
| 40% | LIBERTYBELL | 11 | Historic symbol whose shape can be found hidden in this completed puzzle |
| 40% | DECKTHEHALLS | 12 | Song whose refrain has been prefixed to nine answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | MRT | 3 | Actor whose name is appropriate to appear in this puzzle |
| 40% | WALDO | 5 | "Where's ___?," collection of children's puzzles whose main character is always lost and must be found |
| 39% | ELCID | 5 | Spanish hero whose 113-Down is represented enigmatically six times in this puzzle |
| 39% | ELIZA | 5 | Doolittle, whose speech patterns can be heard in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 39% | BLT | 3 | Sandwich whose initials have been rearranged in five other ways in this puzzle |
| 39% | STELMOSFIRE | 11 | Weather phenomenon whose double lights were said to represent this puzzle's subjects |
| 39% | EXIST | 5 | Be alive |
| 39% | LIVING | 6 | Being alive |
| 39% | BREATHE | 7 | Be alive |
| 39% | EXISTS | 6 | Is alive |
| 39% | EXIST | 5 | Am alive |
| 39% | ELBA | 4 | Island whose name is another word in this puzzle spelled backward |
| 39% | THREEMUSKETEERS | 15 | Group whose motto is a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 39% | FRANKENSTEIN | 12 | Character whose creation is making the 10 complaints in this puzzle |