| 100% | FOUR | 4 | The number of letters in this clue's answer |
| 86% | FOUR | 4 | Number of letters in this clue's answer |
| 78% | THREE | 5 | The number of letters in this answer minus two |
| 77% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of letters in this answer |
| 72% | TWO | 3 | Number of consonants in this clue's answer |
| 71% | TWO | 3 | Number of letters in every word of the answers to the starred clues |
| 68% | TWO | 3 | Number of consonants in the answer to this clue |
| 68% | FOUR | 4 | Number of letters in our contest answer--and the number of letters between certain pairs of letters in this puzzle |
| 67% | TEN | 3 | The number of syllables in this clue |
| 62% | ZWEI | 4 | The number of this clue, in German |
| 61% | ELEVEN | 6 | The number of clues in this puzzle minus one |
| 60% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter "C" |
| 60% | ESSES | 5 | Half of the letters in this answer's row |
| 59% | EIGHT | 5 | Total number of letters of the alphabet used in this puzzle |
| 59% | ONE | 3 | Number of Zs in this puzzle's answers |
| 58% | TWO | 3 | Number of words beginning with the letter "f" in this puzzle |
| 55% | TEN | 3 | Number of mispelled words in this puzzle's clues (oh, by the way, watch out for those tricky circled squares!) |
| 55% | SPELT | 5 | Like this clue's answer, in five letters |
| 55% | MAILTRUCKS | 10 | There are a lot of letters in this answer |
| 55% | SIX | 3 | Number of letters in the word "twelve" |
| 55% | TEN | 3 | Number of letters in the word "dictionary" |
| 55% | TEN | 3 | Number of letters in the word "smartphone" |
| 55% | THREE | 5 | Number of letters in the word "six" |
| 54% | ELEVEN | 6 | Number of letters in the country home to Geneva |
| 54% | CROSSDRESSING | 13 | "Mrs. Doubtfire" plot device - or what the letters in this clue's answer do five times? |
| 54% | SECRET | 6 | When revealed in this puzzle, it reverses the meanings of the answers to the starred clues |
| 54% | ONE | 3 | The number of this clue |
| 54% | ERR | 3 | Use the answer to any of this puzzle's starred clues in ordinary conversation? |
| 54% | ONE | 3 | Number of tiles per Scrabble set for the letter at the end of the answer to each starred clue |
| 53% | THREE | 5 | Number of consonants in this answer |