| 100% | IFFY | 4 | Uncertain word found in "jiffy" |
| 64% | ARID | 4 | Word found in "Kalahari desert" |
| 62% | EON | 3 | Word found in "time on end," appropriately |
| 61% | RHYMES | 6 | Words found in picture books that sound similar |
| 60% | ROAD | 4 | Appropriate word found in 36-Down |
| 59% | ARMS | 4 | Plural word found in the Second Amendment |
| 59% | ELA | 3 | Portuguese word found in the middle of "delay" |
| 58% | BRITISHISMS | 11 | Words found in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 56% | OAT | 3 | Cereal found in the word "bloat" |
| 56% | URN | 3 | Vessel found in the word "burn" |
| 56% | NIT | 3 | Appropriate word found scrambled in "pedantic" |
| 55% | SUCH | 4 | Word found before and after "and," in a phrase |
| 55% | HAN | 3 | Chinese dynasty found in the word "Shanghai" |
| 55% | EXACTMATCH | 10 | Duplicate found in a word processor search |
| 55% | OAT | 3 | Cereal grain found in the word "bloat" |
| 55% | PLO | 3 | Political grp. found in the word "diplomacy" |
| 55% | ERG | 3 | Unit fittingly found in the word energy |
| 54% | YAM | 3 | Vegetable found in the Swahili word for "meat" |
| 54% | TIM | 3 | Name found in this clue's penultimate word |
| 54% | AEIOU | 5 | Letters found in a so-called "supervocalic" word |
| 54% | MAT | 3 | Word aptly found backward in "tatami" |
| 53% | EAR | 3 | Hearing organ that's found in the word "hearing" |
| 53% | ASUS | 4 | Computer and phone company found in the word "pegasus" |
| 53% | LAUD | 4 | Word aptly found in "plaudits" |
| 53% | BACKSTORY | 9 | Fictional past, or a hint to four-letter words found in the starred answers |
| 52% | NOR | 3 | Word found three times in the unofficial U.S. Postal Service motto |
| 52% | ECON | 4 | Word aptly found in "price control" |
| 52% | ORCA | 4 | Word fittingly found in bicolor carnivore |
| 51% | AEIOU | 5 | Quintet found in so-called "supervocalic" words, like "education" and "facetious" |
| 51% | LED | 3 | Word aptly found in "controlled" and "marshaled" |