| 100% | SUBJECT | 7 | What "The Star-Spangled Banner" writer is in this puzzle |
| 60% | OXYMORONS | 9 | What the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all are |
| 55% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 55% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 55% | TACOTUESDAY | 11 | What this puzzle is celebrating, judging by what's been "eaten" by the starred answers |
| 55% | FLAG | 4 | What "The Star-Spangled Banner" is about |
| 54% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 53% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 52% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 52% | GLEAM | 5 | Do what the twilight does in 'The Star-Spangled Banner' |
| 52% | LONGWINDED | 10 | Verbose, and what the circled letters in this puzzle literally are? |
| 52% | ARMS | 4 | What are featured in the theme entries of this puzzle |
| 51% | TINSEL | 6 | What might be hung from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 51% | GARLAND | 7 | What might be draped from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 51% | PRESENT | 7 | What might be set under the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 51% | LIGHTS | 6 | What might be strung from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 51% | SALESPROMOTIONS | 15 | Marketing strategies, and what the mascots in this puzzle have all been given? |
| 51% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 51% | TINATURNER | 10 | "The Best" singer, and what this puzzle is, in the circles |
| 50% | PENNAMES | 8 | What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways |
| 50% | POPES | 5 | 10 featured last names in this puzzle are also the names of these |
| 50% | BLUE | 4 | Navy, e.g., or what the starred answers can be, in various ways |
| 50% | PHYSICSFORMULAS | 15 | What the three sets of circled squares in this puzzle represent |
| 50% | YOGAPOSES | 9 | What the five formations of circled letters in this puzzle represent |
| 50% | RACE | 4 | What the vehicle in "lane one" of this crossword is winning? |
| 50% | WATERFALLS | 10 | What the circles in this puzzle hold |
| 50% | VICTORFLEMING | 13 | Director of the eight starred films in this puzzle, who was born on 2/23/1889 |
| 49% | COP | 3 | Your role in this puzzle [the asterisked clues will help you crack the case] |
| 49% | COLUMN | 6 | This answer is in the third one of this puzzle |
| 49% | FILE | 4 | What this puzzle's data is kept in |