| 100% | WHOOP | 5 | Sound I might occasionally utter when I finish the clues for one of these infernal crosswords |
| 30% | RUBY | 4 | Lot 502 of the Geneva Sotheby's auction of May 2015 was one of these, which sold anonymously for 30 million USD |
| 30% | AREYOUFORREAL | 13 | "Seriously?!" … or what one might ask of the answers to starred clues in this puzzle? |
| 29% | PHRASE | 6 | The last two words of this clue, for example |
| 28% | ZERO | 4 | Number of incorrect entries I hope we'll receive for this crossword contest (this clue should help with that) |
| 28% | GULLIBLE | 8 | How you might feel after reading the third letter of every clue in this puzzle for a secret message |
| 27% | RACE | 4 | What the vehicle in "lane one" of this crossword is winning? |
| 27% | VOWEL | 5 | There's one at the end of this clue |
| 27% | END | 3 | Fitting answer for the last clue of this puzzle |
| 27% | SEN | 3 | John Henry Eaton of Tennessee became the youngest ever one of these on November 16, 1818, for short |
| 27% | NODOFF | 6 | At midnight when I'm still writing clues for the puzzle that absolutely has to be in Florida by 8:00 am, I have a tendency to do this |
| 27% | ELEVEN | 6 | The number of clues in this puzzle minus one |
| 27% | COMPUTERNERD | 12 | One who might use one of the ends of the answers to starred clues |
| 26% | GETOVERIT | 9 | Advice for the brokenhearted ... or one of four arrangements found literally in this puzzle |
| 26% | PINACOLADA | 10 | What I'm going to have after I've finished writing these clues and it's spelled out with the first two letters of five of the longest puzzle answers |
| 26% | HEM | 3 | Sound of hesitation, often uttered by crossword constructors pondering clues |
| 26% | NOOSE | 5 | This may be at the end of one's rope |
| 26% | END | 3 | Apt word for this section of the crossword |
| 26% | SASHA | 5 | One of the daughters for whom the 2010 book "Of Thee I Sing" was written |
| 26% | NOUNDERWEAR | 11 | Fashion rule for the liberated ... or one of four arrangements found literally in this puzzle |
| 26% | HAL | 3 | Name that's one of the halves of a word in this clue |
| 26% | STOP | 4 | "Freeze!" ... or, when broken into three parts, how the answer for each of the six starred clues goes |
| 26% | GURU | 4 | One who might ask, “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” |
| 25% | ZHIVAGO | 7 | "Doctor ___," one of the ten highest-grossing films of all time when adjusted for inflation |
| 25% | CAN | 3 | Warhol painted one of these 32 times for his first one-man gallery exhibition in the Ferus Gallery in 1962 |
| 25% | CEL | 3 | In 1989 one of these from the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was sold at Sotheby's for $50,600 |
| 25% | BJORN | 5 | One of the Bs in musical supergroup ABBA stands for "Benny" and the other B stands for this |
| 25% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 25% | SHAZAM | 6 | One of the many exclamations improvised by Tobey Maguire when Spider-Man tries web-shooting for the first time |
| 25% | VERBOSE | 7 | Denoting the style in which one might consider this clue to be written |