| 100% | CROSSWORDS | 10 | Puzzles with across and down clues |
| 56% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 53% | MYSTERY | 7 | Genre with secrets, puzzles and clues |
| 52% | CROSS | 5 | What this puzzle's across and down answers do |
| 51% | REBUS | 5 | Type of puzzle with a combination of image and letter clues |
| 51% | THOMAS | 6 | With 9 Down and 71 Across, source of quote |
| 50% | ESCAPE | 6 | __ room; team game with clues and puzzle-solving |
| 49% | GREAT | 5 | With 27-, 49- and 66-Across, phrase applicable to five innovations in this puzzle (as suggested by the starred clues) |
| 49% | THETIMES | 8 | With 38- and 52-Across, 1964 Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 48% | SECRET | 6 | With 46-Across, some areas in Clue … or a hint to the first, fourth, twelfth and fifteenth rows of this puzzle |
| 47% | BRAD | 4 | With 59-Down, star of the work revealed by the first letters of the Across clues, which hint at this puzzle's theme |
| 47% | HEART | 5 | With 5-Down and 16-Across, 1993 Nirvana hit that also describes this puzzle |
| 47% | GROWING | 7 | With 41 Across, gradually-apparent problem ... and an explanation of the puzzle's circles? |
| 46% | DEBT | 4 | With 11 Down, much-debated political limit ... and what the puzzle's circled squares compose? |
| 46% | NETLIKE | 7 | Threaded across and down |
| 45% | CROSSWORD | 9 | Puzzle with clues |
| 44% | TAKE | 4 | With this puzzle's circled letters, exercise a certain constitutional right, and how to answer each starred clue |
| 44% | JUNEIS | 6 | With 4 Down, 26 Across, and 18 Down, "Carousel" song famously slaughtered by Leslie Uggams |
| 44% | CROSSWORD | 9 | Angry element of speech; across and down |
| 44% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle with twists and turns |
| 43% | PARTY | 5 | With 62-Across, clue for 19-, 37- and 50-Across |
| 43% | RAN | 3 | With 64-Across, chanced upon, and this puzzle's theme |
| 43% | NAME | 4 | With 50- and 53-Down, apt title for this puzzle |
| 43% | TRANSFER | 8 | With 119 Across, one changing schools ... and what you must do between seven pairs of schools in this puzzle |
| 43% | ACROSS | 6 | Down's opposite for puzzle clues |
| 43% | REBUS | 5 | Puzzle with its pluses and minuses? |
| 43% | REBUS | 5 | Puzzle with eyes and oars, perhaps |
| 43% | CROSSWORD | 9 | Puzzle with letters and black squares |
| 43% | MAZE | 4 | Puzzle with passageways and dead ends |
| 43% | ALLIN | 5 | With 35- and 37-Across, how to answer the starred clues |