| 100% | WITHINSIGHT | 11 | Visible ... or, literally, where most inner letters of this puzzle's eight other longest Across answers are situated |
| 36% | ELEVEN | 6 | How many letters are in the longest answers in this puzzle - or how many of these answers there are |
| 34% | STEERTSYAWOWT | 13 | Many thoroughfares ... or what this puzzle's Across answers consist of? |
| 34% | EGOCENTRISM | 11 | Narcissistic trait exhibited perfectly by this puzzle's eight other longest answers |
| 34% | OPERA | 5 | Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one |
| 33% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 32% | PALINDROME | 10 | Part of eight of this puzzle's long answers |
| 31% | BLOCK | 5 | The 2x2 black square near the middle of this puzzle's grid, e.g., which is part of eight answers |
| 30% | BACKTOSQUAREONE | 15 | Where thwarted people, or six of this puzzle's answers, go |
| 30% | NOUSE | 5 | Pointless, or a phonetic hint to five of this puzzle's long answers |
| 30% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |
| 29% | INARO | 5 | Indirectly ... or how some of this puzzle's answers should be entered? |
| 29% | LEADDETECTIVES | 14 | Ones in charge of a case ... or a literal hint to the eight other longest answers in this puzzle |
| 29% | ABBY | 4 | ___ Wambach, teammate of this puzzle's three longest answers |
| 29% | STICK | 5 | Feature of this puzzle's three long Down answers |
| 29% | HARDEDGED | 9 | Gritty ... and a description of this puzzle, which is also a hint to completing eight answers |
| 29% | BORDERSTATES | 12 | Geographic neighbors, or what this puzzle's circled letters literally are |
| 29% | OLD | 3 | Unlike the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 29% | MISSINGINGREDIENT | 17 | Feature of this puzzle (hint: string together the letters omitted from the starts of 10 long answers) |
| 28% | PHONETIC | 8 | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 28% | TOE | 3 | Digit associated with the starts of this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 28% | BUGS | 4 | They're found at the end of this puzzle's longest answers |
| 28% | BACKDATES | 9 | Makes retroactive ... or what the eight other longest Across answers have |
| 28% | SANTA | 5 | Owner of eight other answers in this puzzle |
| 28% | FIRSTAMENDMENT | 14 | Source of the freedoms found at the ends of this puzzle's four other longest answers |
| 28% | CTR | 3 | Abbr. found at the 56-Down of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 28% | CVS | 3 | Brief résumés, and an apt description of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 28% | INTHREED | 8 | How this puzzle’s nine longest answers are viewed? |
| 28% | HALFTHEBATTLE | 13 | Important part of an undertaking . . . or what can be found in eight of this puzzle’s answers? |
| 28% | ACROSS | 6 | Like many of this puzzle's answers |