| 100% | INSIDEJOKE | 10 | Source of an exclusive chuckle ... or what the circles within the five theme answers reveal |
| 39% | SILENTNIGHT | 11 | Song of 1859 ... or what the five circled letters represent? |
| 37% | SECRETHANDSHAKE | 15 | Greeting between members of an exclusive club, and what's hiding in the answer to the starred clues? |
| 37% | OPEDCOLUMN | 10 | Place for airing an opinion ... or what five of this puzzle's Down answers contain? |
| 37% | PENTANGLES | 10 | Five-pointed stars ... or, in two words, what the sets of circles represent? |
| 36% | LAYER | 5 | With 67-Across, what five pairs of answers in the circles represent |
| 36% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 36% | SPRINGBREAK | 11 | Popular vacation time ... and an explanation of what's straddling the two words in each theme answer? |
| 36% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 36% | TAMES | 5 | Breaks ... or an anagram of the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | THEFRENCHCONNECTION | 19 | Best Picture winner of the 1970s, or what five of this puzzle's answers have |
| 35% | NEITHERNOR | 10 | *Irrelevant ... or what the answers to the five starred clues have? |
| 35% | SPELLITOUT | 10 | Leave no room for misinterpretation ... or what the first words of the answers to the five starred clues do, literally |
| 35% | YOURATTENTIONPLEASE | 19 | Start of an announcement ... or a hint to what's hidden in the answers to the six starred clues |
| 35% | PARALLELPARKS | 13 | Does a driving test task - or an apt description of the five circled diagonals in this puzzle |
| 34% | FOUNDPOETRY | 11 | Verse derived from an existing source text . . . or what the circled squares might be described as |
| 33% | TURNINGRED | 10 | Showing embarrassment ... or what the circles in three puzzle answers are literally doing |
| 33% | MIXEDGREENS | 11 | Simple salad ... and what the starts of the five other longest answers are? |
| 33% | RINGLEADERS | 11 | Crime bosses, or what the first words of the starred answers can be |
| 33% | GARDENVARIETY | 13 | Ordinary ... or what the beginning of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 33% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 33% | RINGS | 5 | Five __ (Olympic logo, and what's within the seven longest answers) |
| 33% | FIFTH | 5 | With 45-Down, subversive groups ... or what the answers in the circled squares comprise? |
| 33% | HANDSDOWN | 9 | Without a doubt ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues are? |
| 33% | TAILBONE | 8 | Coccyx, familiarly, or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can do? |
| 33% | CLOSECALL | 9 | Narrow escape ... or what the end of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 33% | CHANGINGTHEGAME | 15 | Innovating ... or what the end of the answer to each starred entry is doing? |
| 33% | CATCHPHRASE | 11 | Popular expression ... or what the opposite of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 33% | SHIPSHAPE | 9 | In perfect order ... or, as two words, what's formed by applying the answers for the five starred clues to the circled letters |
| 32% | GREENNEWDEAL | 12 | Proposed climate legislation ... or an apt description for the first five letters of the answers to the starred clues |