| 100% | CROSSWORD | 9 | Puzzle with letters and black squares |
| 51% | REBUS | 5 | Type of puzzle with a combination of image and letter clues |
| 49% | AFRAMEBUILDINGS | 15 | Structures illustrated twice in this puzzle through both black squares and letters |
| 47% | SCRABBLE | 8 | Word game with Double and Triple Letter squares |
| 47% | SUDOKU | 6 | Puzzle with a grid with squares |
| 46% | DEBT | 4 | With 11 Down, much-debated political limit ... and what the puzzle's circled squares compose? |
| 46% | CHESS | 5 | Game with 32 black squares and 32 white squares |
| 46% | DOCTORS | 7 | With 36- and 40-Across, organization whose name hints at some missing letters in this puzzle |
| 46% | DOUBLEORNOTHING | 15 | Risky wager ... with a hint to the letters in this puzzle's circled squares |
| 45% | CLOUD | 5 | With this puzzle's central black squares, ecstasy |
| 45% | HEAT | 4 | With 53-Across, weather phenomenon with trapped warmth, and a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 45% | TWO | 3 | Approximate shape of this puzzle's white squares ... and a synonym of the circled letters |
| 45% | KEYBOARD | 8 | Laptop component with letters and numbers |
| 45% | SUDOKU | 6 | Puzzle with 81 squares |
| 44% | SPECS | 5 | 72 answers and 34 black squares, for this puzzle |
| 44% | TAKE | 4 | With this puzzle's circled letters, exercise a certain constitutional right, and how to answer each starred clue |
| 44% | OUIJA | 5 | Mystic's device with letters and numbers |
| 44% | ALGEBRA | 7 | Math with letters and numbers making equations |
| 44% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle with twists and turns |
| 43% | BACKPACK | 8 | Travel the world with one bag, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 43% | REBUS | 5 | Puzzle with its pluses and minuses? |
| 43% | REBUS | 5 | Puzzle with eyes and oars, perhaps |
| 43% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle with passageways and dead ends |
| 43% | CROSSWORDS | 10 | Puzzles with across and down clues |
| 43% | RIGHTBETWEENTHE | 15 | With 67-Across, in a sudden and completely apparent way ... or a punny description of this puzzle's circled letters |
| 42% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle with a start and an end |
| 42% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle with a start and a finish |
| 42% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle with an entrance and an exit? |
| 42% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle with an entrance and an exit |
| 42% | OOPS | 4 | With 55-Across, version of Cap'n Crunch with no corn squares ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme entries |