| 100% | PEND | 4 | Remain unsettled, or, read as two words, what five of this puzzle's long answers have |
| 47% | THEFRENCHCONNECTION | 19 | Best Picture winner of the 1970s, or what five of this puzzle's answers have |
| 46% | FLIP | 4 | With 65-Across, part of a record ... or what each of this puzzle's five long Across answers has? |
| 45% | FLOSS | 5 | Dental directive, or (as two words) a feature of five answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | NOUSE | 5 | Pointless, or a phonetic hint to five of this puzzle's long answers |
| 42% | AHEAD | 5 | Winning ... or, read another way, what nine of ten answers in this puzzle have? |
| 41% | OPEDCOLUMN | 10 | Place for airing an opinion ... or what five of this puzzle's Down answers contain? |
| 40% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 40% | AUTOMATES | 9 | Streamlines, as a factory ... or, when read as two words, what the beginnings of the answers to starred clues are |
| 39% | TOE | 3 | Digit associated with the starts of this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 39% | ASYMMETRY | 9 | Unusual feature of this puzzle … or, when parsed as two words (1,8), another unusual feature of this puzzle |
| 39% | TENANTS | 7 | Ones paying flat rates ... or, when read as two words, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 38% | FORMLETTERS | 11 | Impersonal notes ... or what four groups of this puzzle's answers do (totaling 11 words) |
| 38% | INANE | 5 | Foolish ... or, when read as three words, how this puzzle's other four "foolish" answers are arranged |
| 37% | SHIPSHAPE | 9 | In perfect order ... or, as two words, what's formed by applying the answers for the five starred clues to the circled letters |
| 37% | DEJECTION | 9 | Sadness ... or, read another way, what five puzzle answers have in common |
| 37% | ANTICAPITALISM | 14 | Political movement against free enterprise, or a way of reading this puzzle's long answers? |
| 36% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 36% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 36% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 35% | SPLITSECOND | 11 | Brief moment, or what three long answers in this puzzle have? |
| 35% | TTOPS | 5 | Features of some sports cars, and what this puzzle's four longest answers have in common |
| 35% | ITSINTHEBAG | 11 | "We have this won" ... or what could be said about each of the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 34% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| 34% | KNOTS | 5 | Conundrums, or, if read as three words, this puzzle's theme |
| 34% | INVISIBLEINK | 12 | What six of this puzzle's clues have been written with? |
| 34% | STICK | 5 | Feature of this puzzle's three long Down answers |
| 34% | ABBY | 4 | ___ Wambach, teammate of this puzzle's three longest answers |
| 34% | OPERA | 5 | Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one |
| 34% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |