| 100% | RACKET | 6 | Something needed to play the game depicted in this puzzle |
| 94% | BIRDIE | 6 | Something needed to play the game depicted in this puzzle ... or a hint to the six circled answers |
| 57% | SERVES | 6 | Starts the game depicted in this puzzle |
| 51% | AGRA | 4 | Home to the monument depicted in this puzzle |
| 51% | INDIA | 5 | Home to the monument depicted in this puzzle |
| 47% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |
| 44% | LETFLY | 6 | Something to do with the shapes in this puzzle? |
| 43% | HANDS | 5 | What are needed to play the last-word theme of the puzzle |
| 43% | SHAHJAHAN | 9 | Builder of the monument depicted in this puzzle |
| 42% | FOLLOWTHELEADER | 15 | Game played in this puzzle? |
| 42% | DIE | 3 | One of six objects hidden in this puzzle's 5×5 sections of white squares (and where you need to find the letters matching the value shown there) |
| 41% | DROPABEAT | 9 | Trick to solving the shaded answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | ORE | 3 | Resource needed to build a city in the game Catan |
| 40% | STICK | 5 | Something to play fetch with in the woods |
| 39% | PINATA | 6 | Party item depicted in the middle of this puzzle's grid |
| 39% | SECRET | 6 | When revealed in this puzzle, it reverses the meanings of the answers to the starred clues |
| 39% | SANTA | 5 | It can precede eight first names in this puzzle to form the names of California cities |
| 39% | GROOMERS | 8 | Service providers needed for the five pets in this puzzle |
| 38% | MONSOON | 7 | Season depicted in this puzzle |
| 38% | ALOUS | 5 | Only trio of brothers to play together in the outfield in an MLB game |
| 38% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 38% | ALPHABETICALLY | 14 | How to link the 12 letters in this puzzle with a single line to make a picture |
| 38% | SALT | 4 | Theme of this puzzle, found in the answers to 21-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across |
| 38% | STBERNARD | 9 | French abbot thought to have originated the saying depicted symbolically in this puzzle |
| 37% | TOKEN | 5 | Coin-like item needed to play a game in an arcade |
| 37% | FOUR | 4 | Number of 69-Across surrounding the monument depicted in this puzzle |
| 37% | ANYTAKERS | 9 | "Who's interested?" ... or, phonetically, what four answers in this puzzle are vis-à-vis the answers next to them |
| 37% | PLUSSIGN | 8 | One of five depicted in this puzzle |
| 37% | CLAWMACHINEGAME | 15 | Joystick-controlled contraption depicted in this puzzle |
| 37% | POOL | 4 | Place to play the game Marco Polo |