| 100% | FINALE | 6 | What's spelled by the last letters of the six long Across phrases |
| 47% | FAIRYTALEENDING | 15 | What’s spelled out by the starts of six answers in this puzzle |
| 46% | CHRISTMASEVE | 12 | Apt phrase spelled out by the first letters of the answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | FLIPFLOPPING | 12 | Switching positions, and a phrase spelled by the first letters of 12 words that have switched positions |
| 44% | LATENESS | 8 | Result of pushing things back, and what's spelled out by eight letters that have been literally pushed to the back |
| 44% | DISUNION | 8 | State of division, and what the first letters of the states divided across black squares in this puzzle spell out |
| 44% | ALE | 3 | What the last letter of 32-Across stands for |
| 43% | ARR | 3 | What the last letter of 13-Across stands for: Abbr. |
| 43% | SYS | 3 | What the last letter of 55-Across stands for: Abbr. |
| 42% | HIDEINPLAINSIGHT | 16 | What words concealed by the other four longest Across answers do ... and also, what each of them is |
| 42% | TOYS | 4 | Plush items that might utter the phrase spelled by the letters between the pairs of circles |
| 41% | RINSECYCLE | 10 | Part of washing ... or what's exhibited by the circled letters from top to bottom |
| 41% | JASON | 5 | Name spelled by the first letters of consecutive calendar months |
| 41% | YIDDISH | 7 | Source of the six longest Across answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | ARC | 3 | What the last letter of this answer resembles |
| 40% | OFFONALARK | 10 | What's depicted by the circled letters in 41-/49-Across |
| 40% | TONY | 4 | What the last letter of 107-Down stands for |
| 40% | ERA | 3 | What the last letter of 5-Down stands for |
| 40% | SOUNDOUT | 8 | Pronounce, as syllables ... and what's spelled by the letters you hear from the asterisked answers' deleted syllables |
| 40% | YOUREMUTED | 10 | Comment about the silence on Zoom ... and what's spelled out by the sounds that have been removed from the starts of 10 phrases in this puzzle |
| 40% | RAMP | 4 | What each circled model in this puzzle ascends or descends, and what's spelled by the letters where the models cross |
| 39% | BUILDABEAR | 10 | What you can do by combining the last words of 17-, 30- and 44-Across |
| 39% | FASHIONDESIGNERS | 16 | What you can do by rearranging the letters of 17- and 26-Across |
| 39% | 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 |
| 39% | NATURAL | 7 | With 39-Across, subject of study represented literally by the words spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 39% | END | 3 | With 72-Across, evasive strategy ... and a hint to the last several letters of the four longest Across answers |
| 39% | RINGO | 5 | Rock star whose name is spelled out by the middle letters of 16-, 18-, 39-, 61- and 64-Across |
| 39% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 38% | PLOT | 4 | What's spelled out, appropriately, after mapping the coordinates indicated by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 38% | MOVIETRAILER | 12 | Preview ... and what the ending letters of the four other longest answers comprise? |