| 100% | OOHS | 4 | Sounds of awe heard twice in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 51% | ROCKSET | 7 | Description of this puzzle's theme answers, sounding like "The Look" singers? |
| 49% | ANO | 3 | New element in each of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 47% | MAGI | 4 | Wise guys featured in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 47% | ELIZA | 5 | Doolittle, whose speech patterns can be heard in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 45% | PUN | 3 | Any of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 44% | XED | 3 | Struck out, as one letter in each of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 44% | AEIOUY | 6 | Sextet featured in order in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 43% | GRADE | 5 | With 57-Across, GPA lowerer evident in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 43% | SNOWMEN | 7 | Winter figures, made from the "bonus" letters in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 43% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Basketball feat suggested by this puzzle's pairs of theme answers, informally |
| 43% | RITAMORENO | 10 | Onetime winner of all the awards in this puzzle's theme |
| 42% | ZIP | 3 | Each of the numbers in this puzzle's theme |
| 42% | ONE | 3 | Number of Zs in this puzzle's answers |
| 42% | SALT | 4 | Theme of this puzzle, found in the answers to 21-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across |
| 42% | FRESHSTART | 10 | New beginning, as spelled by the new beginnings in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 42% | DRONE | 5 | Bee formed by the letters heard at the starts of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 42% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 41% | TWO | 3 | Number of X's in this puzzle's answer |
| 41% | THREE | 5 | Number of V's in this puzzle's answer |
| 41% | TWO | 3 | Number of W's in this puzzle's answer |
| 41% | ONEONONE | 8 | Configuration of six places in this puzzle's answer |
| 40% | THINKQUICKLY | 12 | To understand this puzzle's theme, read the ends of the answers to the starred clues and ... |
| 40% | CANADIANPROVINCE | 16 | What each of the 10 abbreviations in this puzzle's answer stands for |
| 40% | TIMES | 5 | Square where the words in this puzzle's dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song's first verse |
| 40% | FILM | 4 | What each completed pair of theme answers in this puzzle is |
| 40% | OPERA | 5 | Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one |
| 40% | NORDICCROSS | 11 | Flag symbol seen twice in this puzzle's grid |
| 40% | PLANET | 6 | Item in this puzzle's theme |
| 40% | EAGLE | 5 | Score in this puzzle's theme |