| 100% | AMEN | 4 | The answer to a preacher's prayers? |
| 59% | AMEN | 4 | Answer to a prayer |
| 58% | MARIAELENA | 10 | She was "the answer to a prayer" in a 1941 #1 Jimmy Dorsey hit |
| 58% | SOLUTION | 8 | The answer to a problem, such as a crossword clue |
| 57% | WHOISIT | 7 | Answer to a knock at the door |
| 57% | ENTER | 5 | Answer to a knock on the door |
| 55% | AJAR | 4 | Answer to the riddle "When is a door not a door? When it's ___" |
| 54% | IDO | 3 | Answer to the preacher at the altar |
| 53% | DIVIDERS | 8 | Boundaries, and a hint to the puzzle's starred answers |
| 52% | EVERYTHINGSOK | 13 | "It's all good," or a hint to the starred answers |
| 52% | CATTYCORNER | 11 | Location-describing term that's a triple hint to the contest answer |
| 52% | METOO | 5 | "Ditto!" (and a hint to what's in the grid-spanning answers) |
| 52% | THREEPEATS | 10 | Features of the answers to starred clues, from a trademarked sports term |
| 51% | CAPITAL | 7 | A hint to the contest answer |
| 51% | IDO | 3 | Answer to a minister's question |
| 51% | WEBOFLIES | 9 | It's spun by mendacious people ... or a hint to the shaded answers |
| 51% | RANDD | 5 | Company's creative dept., and a hint to the five long Across answers |
| 50% | ZEN | 3 | "Your Moment of ___," and a hint to what's added to the starred answers |
| 50% | YOUSEE | 6 | "It's like this," and a phonetic hint to the five longest Across answers |
| 50% | UPS | 3 | Paradoxical answer to appear among the Downs in a crossword |
| 50% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 49% | MIDDLEMARCH | 11 | George Eliot novel that's not the contest answer, but provides a hint to it |
| 49% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |
| 49% | CANIGETANAMEN | 13 | "Anyone agree with me?" and a hint to what's hidden in the starred answers |
| 49% | JUICEUP | 7 | Supercharge, and a hint to what's literally hiding in the four longest Down answers |
| 49% | FSH | 3 | Answer to the riddle "What do you call a fish with no eyes?"... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 49% | ITSALLNOISE | 11 | "That's just talk, talk, talk," or a hint to the ends of the starred answers |
| 49% | DPS | 3 | MLB rally killers, briefly, and a hint to what's in the four longest puzzle answers |
| 49% | APRIL | 5 | Psych! You've been ___ Fooled ! Find the answers to 28a, 32a, and 45a for a surprise :) |
| 48% | SHAPESHIFTERS | 13 | Amorphous sci-fi beings, and a hint to what's hidden in the four other longest answers |