| 100% | UUUU | 4 | What's common to the five longest answers |
| 70% | USA | 3 | What the five longest answers have in common |
| 70% | NNNN | 4 | What the five longest answers have in common |
| 70% | INOUT | 5 | What the five longest answers have in common |
| 62% | TOES | 4 | What's in the five longest answers |
| 57% | RANDD | 5 | Company's creative dept., and a hint to the five long Across answers |
| 57% | RISINGSEALEVELS | 15 | One effect of global warming, and a hint to the five longest Down answers |
| 56% | PINACOLADA | 10 | What I'm going to have after I've finished writing these clues and it's spelled out with the first two letters of five of the longest puzzle answers |
| 56% | SWISS | 5 | Deli cheese ... or, in three parts, a hint to the five longest across puzzle answers |
| 56% | YOUSEE | 6 | "It's like this," and a phonetic hint to the five longest Across answers |
| 55% | DOUBLEDOG | 9 | Schoolyard dare intensifier ... and a hint to the five other longest answers |
| 55% | ABCD | 4 | What the ten longest answers have in common |
| 55% | AEIOU | 5 | What the ten longest answers have in common |
| 55% | ONOFF | 5 | What the three longest answers have in common |
| 55% | URUR | 4 | What the four longest answers have in common |
| 55% | OROR | 4 | What the seven longest answers have in common |
| 55% | CCC | 3 | What the three longest answers have in common |
| 55% | MMM | 3 | What the eight longest answers have in common |
| 55% | HAHA | 4 | What the four longest answers have in common |
| 55% | UMO | 3 | What the 10 longest answers have in common |
| 55% | CCCC | 4 | What the four longest answers have in common |
| 54% | HOMESTRETCH | 11 | Hint to what the other nine longest answers have in common |
| 54% | BRR | 3 | What's heard in the three longest answers |
| 53% | URUR | 4 | What the longest answers have in common |
| 53% | TOTO | 4 | What the longest answers have in common |
| 53% | CHANGINGDIAPERS | 15 | New father's task, maybe ... and what the three other longest puzzle answers have in common? |
| 52% | AND | 3 | What the puzzle's eight longest answers have in common |
| 52% | GRANDPA | 7 | Pop's pop ... or, divided into three parts, what the answers to starred clues have in common |
| 52% | EIEIO | 5 | What the seven longest Across answers have in common |
| 52% | BIGPICTURE | 10 | Long view ... or what the answer to each starred clue is? |