| 100% | MIDDLEENGLISH | 13 | Tongue of Chaucer ... or what's literally shown in the shaded squares? |
| 46% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Hop to it ... or what to do to the various eggs in this puzzle's shaded squares? |
| 45% | WAITING | 7 | On hold ... or what the seven rows of black squares in this puzzle's grid spell in Morse code |
| 44% | TINYTIM | 7 | Speaker of the words in the shaded squares, expressed literally |
| 42% | FRIEDRICE | 9 | Chinese menu standard, or what's literally found in the circled letters? |
| 41% | FOLLOWINGORDERS | 15 | Doing as told, in the military ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can literally have? |
| 41% | SUN | 3 | Space heater, or what's hiding in 2 of this puzzle's squares |
| 41% | FALLAPART | 9 | Go to pieces, or what's literally hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 41% | TURNINGRED | 10 | Showing embarrassment ... or what the circles in three puzzle answers are literally doing |
| 40% | SEACHANGE | 9 | Dramatic shift ... or what's literally found in each set of circles? |
| 38% | MIXEDSIGNALS | 12 | Communication confusion ... or what's literally found in this puzzle's three sets of circles |
| 37% | CROSSSTITCH | 11 | Bit of embroidery … or what's depicted literally three times in this puzzle |
| 37% | LANDFORMS | 9 | Geographical features ... or what the circled squares in this puzzle represent |
| 37% | MEATSUBSTITUTES | 15 | Vegetarian options … or what the shaded letters in this puzzle are, phonetically |
| 37% | BACKCHANNEL | 11 | Covert means of communication ... or what's hiding in the circled letters? |
| 36% | DARKART | 7 | Witchcraft ... or what each block of three black squares in this puzzle represents? |
| 36% | PHYSICSFORMULAS | 15 | What the three sets of circled squares in this puzzle represent |
| 36% | LOOP | 4 | In the ___ (aware of what's happening) |
| 36% | TAKETHEWRONGWAY | 15 | Misinterpret, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 36% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 36% | FALLLEAVES | 10 | Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle? |
| 36% | VIDEO | 5 | What the villain in "Untraceable" shows online for each of his victims |
| 36% | MAKEUPARTISTS | 13 | Some movie set workers … or what you do when filling in the shaded squares? |
| 36% | ROUGHPATCH | 10 | Difficult time, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 36% | TIRE | 4 | Bad thing to blow ... or what each of the circled letters in this puzzle represents |
| 36% | AREYOUFORREAL | 13 | "Seriously?!" … or what one might ask of the answers to starred clues in this puzzle? |
| 35% | MIXEDBREED | 10 | Pet without papers ... or what is literally found in the circled letters |
| 35% | HALFMEASURE | 11 | Inadequate effort ... or the contents of six squares in this puzzle? |
| 35% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 35% | STOOP | 5 | Bend to go through a doorway, say ... or what may be in front of the door |