| 100% | FABFOUR | 7 | Quartet hidden in this puzzle |
| 71% | THEPIEDPIPEROFHAMELIN | 21 | Leader of the pack hidden in this puzzle? |
| 70% | YEN | 3 | Urge hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers |
| 70% | GEORGESSEURAT | 13 | Artist who created the painting hidden in this puzzle |
| 69% | TREES | 5 | There are six hidden in this puzzle in appropriate places |
| 69% | GABLE | 5 | Another co-star of the film hidden in this puzzle |
| 68% | AMESSAGEIN | 10 | With 38- and 56-Across, what's hidden in this puzzle |
| 68% | UNDERCOVERMAN | 13 | Double agent, or one of four arrangements hidden in this puzzle |
| 68% | TINSEL | 6 | What might be hung from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 68% | GARLAND | 7 | What might be draped from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 68% | PRESENT | 7 | What might be set under the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 68% | LIGHTS | 6 | What might be strung from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 67% | SIXDEGREES | 10 | Often-cited distance between things ... or what's hidden in this puzzle |
| 67% | IOO | 3 | Arabic equivalent of C hidden in this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 66% | CAT | 3 | One of six hidden in this puzzle, each sitting on an apt location |
| 66% | PER | 3 | A pop, and what's hiding in this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 66% | INSIDETHELINES | 14 | Tidy way to color … and where seven words are hiding in this puzzle? |
| 65% | WRITERSBLOCK | 12 | Problem for a wordsmith, and a clue to five figures hidden in this puzzle |
| 65% | ROUNDOFAPPLAUSE | 15 | Acknowledgement of success--four are hidden in this puzzle, each adjacent to a black square |
| 65% | DNA | 3 | Building block of life, and what's hidden in this puzzle's 4 longest answers |
| 64% | ETC | 3 | Hidden element in this puzzle's theme |
| 64% | BROKENPROMISE | 13 | Certain moral lapse, and a hint to what's hidden in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 63% | LIBERTYBELL | 11 | Historic symbol whose shape can be found hidden in this completed puzzle |
| 61% | OWO | 3 | Surprised emoticon hidden in four of this puzzle's answers |
| 60% | ROADS | 5 | There are four hidden in this puzzle, which together suggest a familiar five-word saying (3,5,4,2,4) |
| 60% | STEPHENCOLBERT | 14 | Author of a satirical book whose title consists of five U.S. state abbreviations (and is hidden in this puzzle) |
| 59% | BIRDS | 5 | Things hidden in the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues |
| 58% | SUN | 3 | Space heater, or what's hiding in 2 of this puzzle's squares |
| 58% | POINTILLISM | 11 | Technique employed in the painting hidden in this puzzle |
| 58% | NEEDLEINAHAYSTACK | 17 | Item hidden somewhere in this puzzle (where is it?) |