| 100% | FIRE | 4 | What ''bridges'' four Across answers |
| 73% | SCALE | 5 | What the four longest Across answers each have two parts of |
| 66% | TWENTYANDITSMULTIPLES | 21 | What four of the longest Across answers include (almost) |
| 61% | PCORMAC | 7 | What's hidden in the four longest Across answers |
| 60% | DODO | 4 | What the longest Across answers all contain |
| 59% | HEADCOLD | 8 | Malady that accounts for four Across puzzle answers |
| 59% | URUR | 4 | What the four longest answers have in common |
| 59% | HER | 3 | What the four longest answers all end with |
| 59% | HAHA | 4 | What the four longest answers have in common |
| 59% | CCCC | 4 | What the four longest answers have in common |
| 59% | HIDDENGEMS | 10 | What the long Across answers with circles have |
| 59% | DIVEBAR | 7 | Seedy hangout ... or a hint to finishing four Across answers in this puzzle |
| 58% | GOODPOINT | 9 | "Your argument makes sense," and a feature of the ends of four Across answers |
| 58% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle |
| 57% | SEPARATIONOFPOWERS | 18 | What the four other long answers all exhibit |
| 57% | OVERLOADED | 10 | Carrying way too much, and a punny description of four Across answers in this puzzle |
| 56% | FISHERMEN | 9 | What the answers to the four starred clues are? |
| 56% | 90SFADS | 7 | What the answers to the four starred clues are |
| 56% | CROSS | 5 | What this puzzle's across and down answers do |
| 54% | STALEMATERIAL | 13 | Dated jokes ... and what the ends of four Across answers are, in a way |
| 54% | NUT | 3 | What's ''cracked'' in each of the four star-paired answers |
| 54% | ASSISTANTDA | 11 | Prosecutor ... or what four long puzzle answers have received? |
| 53% | FFFF | 4 | Ultraloud in music, and what's missing from four answers |
| 52% | SPILLTHETEA | 11 | "Give me some gossip!" ... and a hint to this puzzle's sets of circles, which affect four Across answers |
| 51% | FILLINTHEBLANKS | 15 | Provide missing info ... and what four clues do to their answers |
| 51% | NOTWOSOUNDALIKE | 15 | What's odd about the ends of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 50% | BENTOUTOFSHAPE | 14 | Upset ... and what can be found in the four other longest answers? |
| 50% | GOTOTHEMAT | 10 | Struggle vigorously ... and what four other long answers' ending words can do? |
| 50% | MIXEDEMOTIONS | 13 | Mental conflict ... or what may be found in four long puzzle answers? |
| 50% | ROOTSUP | 7 | Digs out, or what can be found in four long Down answers? |