| 100% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 45% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 44% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 41% | JAMESMICHENER | 13 | Author of the novels whose titles are the starts of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 39% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 38% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |
| 38% | YOUREMUTED | 10 | Comment about the silence on Zoom ... and what's spelled out by the sounds that have been removed from the starts of 10 phrases in this puzzle |
| 38% | ALLTHATJAZZ | 11 | Bob Fosse film title relevant to the starts of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | SNL | 3 | TV show since 10/11/75, eight of whose former stars appear in the circled squares in this puzzle |
| 37% | BREAKINGBAD | 11 | #3 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time (as of 2016) ... and a hint to what the black squares are doing in four rows of this puzzle |
| 37% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 37% | FALLLEAVES | 10 | Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle? |
| 36% | DONUT | 5 | Treat whose varieties appear at the starts of four long answers and are represented a dozen times in this puzzle |
| 36% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 36% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 36% | TARA | 4 | Author Westover whose memoir is spelled out in the first letters of this puzzle's eight circled schools |
| 36% | CUTALONGTHEDOTTEDLINE | 21 | Start of instructions for what to do when this puzzle is done |
| 35% | FAMILYMATTERS | 13 | TV series whose title is this puzzle's theme |
| 34% | COLORPICTURES | 13 | Photos not in shades of gray ... or what eight answers in this puzzle are? |
| 34% | EXCHANGINGRINGS | 15 | Sharing in a symbol of commitment … or what four rows in this puzzle are doing to form new phrases |
| 34% | VICTORFLEMING | 13 | Director of the eight starred films in this puzzle, who was born on 2/23/1889 |
| 34% | ARMS | 4 | What are featured in the theme entries of this puzzle |
| 34% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 34% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 33% | AMBULANCE | 9 | Vehicle whose sound is imitated by the first three Across entries in this puzzle |
| 33% | FLIMFLAMARTISTS | 15 | People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 33% | IBELIEVEICANFLY | 15 | R. Kelly hit whose last title word is aptly rhymed with "sky" in the lyrics ... and a hint to the starts of the other four longest puzzle answers |
| 33% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |