| 100% | INSIDETHELINES | 14 | Tidy way to color … and where seven words are hiding in this puzzle? |
| 49% | BETWEENTHELINES | 15 | Where to look for hidden words in this puzzle's fifth and eleventh columns? |
| 43% | ROUNDOFAPPLAUSE | 15 | Acknowledgement of success--four are hidden in this puzzle, each adjacent to a black square |
| 43% | WORKAROUNDS | 11 | Ways to sidestep obstacles, and what are found in this puzzle's circles |
| 40% | EGO | 3 | Word hidden in this clue that might be a detriment to negotiations |
| 40% | DIE | 3 | One of six objects hidden in this puzzle's 5×5 sections of white squares (and where you need to find the letters matching the value shown there) |
| 38% | UNDERTHEHOOD | 12 | Where nine key words in this puzzle can be found |
| 38% | SHADESOFPINK | 12 | What seven key words in this puzzle are |
| 38% | TRAFFICLIGHT | 12 | Where to find the colors in this puzzle |
| 38% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |
| 37% | FBIAGENTS | 9 | Govt. employees encoded by the nine other longest across entries in this puzzle ... and who might be called in to decode them |
| 36% | DOORWAY | 7 | Portal represented 20 times in this puzzle that lets you in and out of a confined space (Note: These special letters, reading left to right, row by row, will produce an apt four-word phrase) |
| 35% | NEEDLEINAHAYSTACK | 17 | Item hidden somewhere in this puzzle (where is it?) |
| 35% | ONTHELINE | 9 | In jeopardy ... and where the first words of the answers to starred clues can be found |
| 35% | TWOFIRSTNAMES | 13 | What six people in this puzzle might be said to possess |
| 35% | ONTHEROCKS | 10 | How three circled words are served in this puzzle |
| 34% | DOINGBACKFLIPS | 14 | Performing gymnastic feats, and a hint to seven words "attracted" to their opposites in this puzzle |
| 33% | TREES | 5 | There are six hidden in this puzzle in appropriate places |
| 33% | JUSTICEGINSBURG | 15 | Subject of this puzzle, who once said "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you" |
| 33% | IBELIEVEICANFLY | 15 | R. Kelly hit whose last title word is aptly rhymed with "sky" in the lyrics ... and a hint to the starts of the other four longest puzzle answers |
| 33% | DOWNSIZE | 8 | Reduce a staff, and make seven squares in this puzzle smaller, in a way |
| 33% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 33% | BIRDSARENTREAL | 14 | Satirical conspiracy theory that explains why some creatures in this puzzle seem to be imaginary |
| 33% | TIMES | 5 | Square where the words in this puzzle's dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song's first verse |
| 33% | ROADS | 5 | There are four hidden in this puzzle, which together suggest a familiar five-word saying (3,5,4,2,4) |
| 33% | ADO | 3 | Word hidden four times in this puzzle |
| 33% | BIRDS | 5 | Things hidden in the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues |
| 32% | BETWEENTHELINES | 15 | Where hidden meanings are found, and where both sets of four horizontal black squares in the puzzle are |
| 32% | BROKENPROMISE | 13 | Certain moral lapse, and a hint to what's hidden in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 32% | WRITERSBLOCK | 12 | Problem for a wordsmith, and a clue to five figures hidden in this puzzle |