| 100% | BORES | 5 | Tedious things ... or phonetically, the theme of this puzzle |
| 63% | MAANDPA | 7 | Kettles ... or the theme of this puzzle |
| 60% | BRIGHTIDEA | 10 | Stroke of genius … or the theme of this puzzle |
| 60% | STATEREPRESENTATIVES | 20 | Some legislators (or the theme of this puzzle?) |
| 60% | URL | 3 | Its common extensions are the theme of this puzzle |
| 60% | PARISFRANCE | 11 | World capital that's the theme of this puzzle |
| 60% | CHCHCHCHCHANGES | 15 | Chorus starter in a 1972 David Bowie song ... or the theme of this puzzle, phonetically |
| 59% | ARTY | 4 | Pretentious, or phonetically the two letters that get separated in this puzzle's theme |
| 59% | NOTPC | 5 | Potentially offensive, and the theme of this puzzle |
| 59% | AHOUSEDIVIDED | 13 | Lincoln topic, and the theme of this puzzle |
| 58% | JUMPERS | 7 | Some basketball shots ... and the theme of this puzzle |
| 58% | THANK | 5 | With 47-Down, the theme of this puzzle |
| 58% | HIDDEN | 6 | With 16-Across, the theme of this puzzle |
| 58% | REPRONUNCIATION | 15 | Key to understanding the theme of this puzzle |
| 58% | POLITICAL | 9 | With 57-Across, the theme of this puzzle |
| 57% | COCONUT | 7 | Palm fruit ... or what the creator of this puzzle's theme apparently is? |
| 57% | SPACEINVADERS | 13 | 1970s-'80s craze that's the theme of this puzzle |
| 56% | TREACHERYOFIMAGES | 17 | 1929 work that is the theme of this puzzle, with "The" |
| 56% | STATE | 5 | With 54-Across, the theme of this puzzle [hint: New Hampshire] |
| 56% | UNITEDNATIONS | 13 | Organization honored on October 24 ... and the theme of this puzzle |
| 56% | DANDD | 5 | Seminal role-playing game familiarly, and the theme of this puzzle |
| 55% | HIDINGOUT | 9 | Theme of this puzzle, seen seven times in the grid |
| 54% | HOT | 3 | The opposite of the theme of this puzzle |
| 53% | EGG | 3 | Omelet ingredient and the theme of this puzzle, as seen in 28a, 45a, 7d, 11d, and 31d! |
| 53% | XFILES | 6 | Theme of this puzzle, with "The" |
| 53% | SALT | 4 | Theme of this puzzle, found in the answers to 21-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across |
| 52% | NOID | 4 | Reason to be barred from a bar ... or the theme of this puzzle |
| 51% | ROUTESIXTYSIX | 13 | Theme of this puzzle, which winds its way nearly 2,500 miles through all the shaded squares herein |
| 49% | HIDDENHALVES | 12 | Theme of this puzzle |
| 49% | FAMOUSLASTWORDS | 15 | Theme of this puzzle |