| 100% | SUGGESTIONBOXES | 15 | Slotted containers, and a clue to four of this puzzle's squares |
| 70% | INTHEDARK | 9 | Wild guess, and a hint to four of this puzzle's squares |
| 62% | LEGUP | 5 | Boost, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| 62% | INREVERSE | 9 | Backwards, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| 60% | KITTYCORNER | 11 | Diagonally ... or a hint to four of this puzzle's squares |
| 57% | GEARSHIFT | 9 | Auto part, and a clue to what's going on in five rows of this puzzle |
| 56% | TOYBOX | 6 | Kid's container, and a clue to this puzzle's theme |
| 55% | HIDDEN{TAX} | 11 | Unseen price-hiker, and a clue to three squares in this puzzle |
| 53% | INONESENSE | 10 | Description of this puzzle's circled letters, and a clue to what they spell |
| 53% | DOUBLENEGATIVE | 14 | Grammatical faux pas seen in four of this puzzle’s clues . . . and, in a different way, their answers? |
| 52% | BLOCK | 5 | Beachgoer's protection, and a literal hint to four squares in this puzzle |
| 52% | CORNERTHEMARKET | 15 | Monopolize, and a hint to four squares in this puzzle |
| 52% | LOWRISES | 8 | Short buildings, and a clue to this puzzle's theme |
| 52% | SOSO | 4 | Meh, and a clue to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 51% | DOUBLEPLAY | 10 | Baseball feat, and a clue to this puzzle's them answers |
| 51% | AINTTHATTHEPITS | 15 | "Man, what a bummer!"...and a hint to four of this puzzle's blocks |
| 51% | TURNINGPOINTS | 13 | Decisive moments, and a hint to four squares in this puzzle |
| 50% | LANGUAGEBARRIER | 15 | Tourist's concern, and a description of four of this puzzle's black squares |
| 50% | OUTER | 5 | With 45-Across, hurricane-prone area, and a clue to this puzzle's edges |
| 49% | GETBENTOUTOFSHA | 15 | Blow a gasket, and a clue to making sense of some answers in this puzzle |
| 49% | LATERALSYMMETRY | 15 | Feature of this puzzle's grid and the answers to the six starred clues |
| 49% | TWO | 3 | Approximate shape of this puzzle's white squares ... and a synonym of the circled letters |
| 48% | ASYMMETRY | 9 | Feature of this puzzle that's "fixed" by a literal reading of four squares |
| 48% | MORN | 4 | Poetic time of day … and a clue to the circled square in this row |
| 47% | PORE | 4 | Skin feature … and a clue to the circled square in this row |
| 47% | MICCHECKS | 9 | Utterances of "One, two, one, two," and a phonetic clue to four features of this puzzle |
| 47% | FUELUP | 6 | Go from empty to full, and a hint to four squares in this puzzle |
| 47% | INTHEHOLE | 9 | Warning before a detonation ... and a hint to 16 of this puzzle's answers |
| 47% | SORT | 4 | Word processing function … and a clue to the circled square in this row |
| 47% | HORA | 4 | Jewish wedding staple … and a clue to the circled square in this row |