| 100% | BREXIT | 6 | Subject of a 2016 U.K. referendum, and a hint to five puzzle answers |
| 74% | BREXIT | 6 | Subject of a 2016 U.K. referendum ... or a hint to 16-, 25-, 41- and 55-Across |
| 59% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Reversed, in a way ... and a hint to the creation of five puzzle answers |
| 57% | THATSMYCUE | 10 | Words before entering ... and a hint to five puzzle answers |
| 57% | PHUNWITHFONICS | 14 | Program for young readers, and a hint to five puzzle answers |
| 57% | BODYDOUBLE | 10 | 1984 De Palma film, and a hint to five puzzle answers |
| 55% | ALITTLERNR | 10 | Quaint vacay, and a hint to five long answers in this puzzle |
| 55% | PCS | 3 | Some laptops, and a hint to five long answers in this puzzle |
| 54% | EFFRONTERY | 10 | Boldness, and a hint to five long puzzle answers |
| 54% | ATTHEDROPOFAHAT | 15 | Without hesitating, and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 53% | RIGHTLYSO | 9 | For good reason, and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 53% | DRINKUP | 7 | Bar exhortation ... and a hint to how to answer five puzzle clues |
| 53% | FANTASTICBEASTS | 15 | With 68- and 74-Across, J. K. Rowling's first screenplay, with a hint to three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 52% | COUNTDOWN | 9 | What might end the year, and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 52% | INTHEHOLE | 9 | Warning before a detonation ... and a hint to 16 of this puzzle's answers |
| 52% | LOL | 3 | Response to a funny text, and a hint to this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 52% | CREW | 4 | With 65-Across, private dos, and a hint to this puzzle's five theme answers |
| 52% | LEGUP | 5 | Boost, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| 52% | INREVERSE | 9 | Backwards, and a hint to four of this puzzle's answers |
| 51% | RISINGSEALEVELS | 15 | One effect of global warming, and a hint to the five longest Down answers |
| 51% | NOWYOUSEEITNOWYOUDONT | 21 | Magic words ... and a hint to four side-by-side pairs of puzzle answers |
| 51% | KEEPITPG | 8 | "Tone down that PDA, there are kids around," and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 51% | DROPIT | 6 | "That'll be enough of that subject" ... and a hint to solving the answers to starred clues |
| 51% | TWOSTATESOLUTION | 16 | Topic of international negotiations ... and a hint to every four-letter answer in this puzzle |
| 51% | IRONCLAD | 8 | Unbreakable, and a hint to making sense of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 50% | SPILLTHETEA | 11 | "Give me some gossip!" ... and a hint to this puzzle's sets of circles, which affect four Across answers |
| 50% | WIRED | 5 | Tense with excitement ... and a hint to the ends of the four longest puzzle answers |
| 50% | NOUSE | 5 | Pointless, or a phonetic hint to five of this puzzle's long answers |
| 50% | POPUPAD | 7 | Bit of Web clutter, and a hint to making sense of four answers in this puzzle |
| 50% | GENEEDITING | 11 | Molecular manipulation technique ... and a hint to the starts of the three other longest puzzle answers |