| 100% | IAMBS | 5 | This clue contains a whole quintet of them |
| 45% | INONESENSE | 10 | Description of this puzzle's circled letters, and a clue to what they spell |
| 43% | WORDS | 5 | This clue has six of them |
| 42% | PARENS | 6 | This clue has two of them (for short) |
| 40% | ROOMS | 5 | There are nine of them on a Clue board |
| 39% | SONGS | 5 | This crossword features a few of them |
| 38% | DAYBOOK | 7 | This clue is about the Elie Wiesel novel, not the portion of a week |
| 38% | HAIKU | 5 | A kind of poem / Found within this crossword clue / Serendipity |
| 38% | BRANCHES | 8 | A tree has many of these, with sticks on them |
| 37% | TEN | 3 | Number of clues in this puzzle that contain factual inaccuracies |
| 37% | NORSE | 5 | Snorri Sturluson's 13th century "Prose Edda" contains a manual of this culture's mythology |
| 37% | ALE | 3 | After writing these clues, I could use a mild, cool glass of this, I think |
| 36% | DOUBLEPLAY | 10 | Baseball feat, and a clue to this puzzle's them answers |
| 36% | MISSINGLINKS | 12 | Evolutionary mysteries, and a feature of three clues in this puzzle |
| 36% | ADDAMS | 6 | Surname of a family whose members can be found in nine rows in this puzzle ... and whose names contain circled letters that, reading down, spell a word describing them |
| 36% | SUGGESTIONBOXES | 15 | Slotted containers, and a clue to four of this puzzle's squares |
| 36% | EGS | 3 | This puzzle's clues have two of them |
| 36% | BLOOD | 5 | With 7-Across, your body has produced millions of them while you've been reading this clue |
| 35% | FILLINTHEBLANK | 14 | Test format ... or a hint to understanding three of this puzzle's clues |
| 35% | TAXRETURNS | 10 | They're filed this time of year, and a hint to portions of the starred answers |
| 35% | MORN | 4 | Poetic time of day … and a clue to the circled square in this row |
| 34% | EMPTY | 5 | Containing nothing, or a word that sounds like the initials of the answers to the starred clues |
| 34% | GETBENTOUTOFSHA | 15 | Blow a gasket, and a clue to making sense of some answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | MUCH | 4 | A whole lot of |
| 34% | UMPTEEN | 7 | A whole bunch of |
| 34% | MICCHECKS | 9 | Utterances of "One, two, one, two," and a phonetic clue to four features of this puzzle |
| 34% | GEARSHIFT | 9 | Auto part, and a clue to what's going on in five rows of this puzzle |
| 33% | DISAPPEARINGACT | 15 | Part of a magic show, and the key to understanding this puzzle's one-word clues |
| 33% | TERAWATT | 8 | A whole lot of juice? |
| 33% | BAIT | 4 | A whole can of worms? |