| 100% | MYSTERIES | 9 | Puzzling conundrums to solve |
| 62% | KEY | 3 | Clue to solving puzzle |
| 61% | CLUE | 4 | Aid to solving a puzzle |
| 61% | HAPPYFACE | 9 | Response to solving this puzzle |
| 60% | HINT | 4 | Helpful clue to solve a puzzle |
| 60% | USEYOURNOODLE | 13 | Best way to solve this puzzle |
| 60% | TENPM | 5 | Appropriate time to solve this puzzle? |
| 60% | ININK | 5 | Confident way to solve newspaper puzzles |
| 60% | LOGIC | 5 | Means to solving a sudoku puzzle |
| 60% | ANAGRAMTHE | 10 | Trap #1 to solving this puzzle |
| 59% | HARD | 4 | Tough to solve, as a crossword puzzle |
| 58% | FREEASSOCIATION | 15 | How to solve this puzzle's starred clues |
| 58% | COOPERATE | 9 | Work together to solve a problem or puzzle |
| 58% | UTURN | 5 | One of four required to solve this puzzle |
| 58% | POPINJAYS | 9 | Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle) |
| 57% | ESCAPE | 6 | __ Room, people have to solve puzzles to break out |
| 57% | PEN | 3 | What someone might use to solve a crossword puzzle |
| 57% | HINT | 4 | Little nudge for someone trying to solve a puzzle |
| 57% | DROPABEAT | 9 | Trick to solving the shaded answers in this puzzle |
| 56% | PERSEVERING | 11 | Key to puzzle solving, often |
| 56% | MYST | 4 | Best-selling computer game that required players to solve puzzles |
| 56% | IMPERFECTTENSE | 14 | Verb form in “I used to solve puzzles,” e.g. |
| 56% | AIRLIFTS | 8 | Some special deliveries, and a hint to solving this puzzle |
| 56% | CROPROTATION | 12 | Common farming technique ... or a hint to solving this puzzle |
| 55% | KEA | 3 | World's only Alpine parrot, known to solve puzzles of logic |
| 55% | SAJAK | 5 | He's often told "I'd like to solve the puzzle" |
| 54% | FOLLOWDIRECTIONS | 16 | What one must do using the circled letters to solve this puzzle |
| 53% | CHANGETHESUBJECT | 16 | Switch topics, and a hint to solving this puzzle's theme answers |
| 53% | CROSS | 5 | With 57-Across, what you must do four times to solve this puzzle |
| 52% | PARESDOWN | 9 | Gradually trims … or a phonetic second hint to solving this puzzle's theme |