| 100% | EXTRAWIDE | 9 | Shoe spec that describes this puzzle? |
| 45% | ALLITERNATION | 13 | Portmanteau coinage describing this puzzle's theme |
| 43% | FORASONG | 8 | Very cheaply, or an apt way to describe this puzzle |
| 42% | IRS | 3 | Org. that inspired this puzzle |
| 40% | CHEMICALSYMBOLS | 15 | This puzzle's circled letters, for the words that precede them |
| 40% | TABBY | 5 | Certain lap warmer, or how one might playfully describe this puzzle's longest answers |
| 39% | TEN | 3 | Number of clues in this puzzle that contain factual inaccuracies |
| 39% | MINI | 4 | Puzzle that celebrated its 10th anniversary this summer |
| 38% | ADDAMS | 6 | Surname of a family whose members can be found in nine rows in this puzzle ... and whose names contain circled letters that, reading down, spell a word describing them |
| 38% | TALKOFTHETOWN | 13 | Something stirring up local buzz . . . or an apt way to describe this puzzle’s starred clues |
| 38% | CENTRALPARK | 11 | Feature of Manhattan, and of this puzzle's answers that contain circles |
| 38% | TRAPPED | 7 | Confined, like five letters in this puzzle that spell an apt word |
| 37% | OTANNENBAUM | 11 | Seasonal air that celebrates this puzzle's theme |
| 37% | RENTALCARRETURN | 15 | Airport sign that inspired this puzzle's theme |
| 36% | ASYMMETRY | 9 | Feature of this puzzle that's "fixed" by a literal reading of four squares |
| 36% | HEEL | 4 | Part of a shoe that might be described as "stiletto" |
| 36% | STRINGOFLETTERS | 15 | In either of two connotations, a phrase that describes each circled row in this grid |
| 35% | THEUSOPEN | 9 | Annual sporting event that is this puzzle's theme |
| 35% | SEVENCS | 7 | Punny title for this puzzle that's a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 34% | SCRABBLE | 8 | Game described by this puzzle's four racks |
| 34% | INTHEHOLE | 9 | Hidden advantage that this puzzle employs four times? |
| 34% | EEE | 3 | Shoe spec. |
| 33% | MISSIONIMPOSSIBLE | 17 | Popular action film franchise ... or what trying to find the item in this puzzle can be described as |
| 33% | FOURCORNERS | 11 | U.S. tourist locale that inspired this puzzle |
| 33% | DOUBLEO | 7 | Feature of this puzzle's circled squares that, when connected by a single line, visually represents 111-Across |
| 33% | SERVICEPETS | 11 | Companions that may provide assistance in six scenarios described in this puzzle |
| 33% | WORDS | 5 | ... in this puzzle |
| 32% | IVYLEAGUESCHOOL | 15 | Each of eight in this puzzle |
| 32% | ONION | 5 | Garden item appropriate for this puzzle |
| 32% | ANIL | 4 | Dye color appropriate to this puzzle |