| 100% | RHYME | 5 | What Across clue-and-answer pairings in this puzzle do, every time |
| 57% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| 57% | CROSS | 5 | What this puzzle's across and down answers do |
| 52% | CLIMBSTHELADDER | 15 | Advances through corporate ranks … and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does |
| 50% | COUNT | 5 | With 61-Across, advice for an insomniac ... or what you can do 12 times in this puzzle, reading across and down (not including this answer) |
| 48% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |
| 47% | VOWEL | 5 | What's found alternating in every answer in this grid ... and every clue except this one |
| 47% | MMM | 3 | "Delicious!" ... and a hint to every Across answer in this puzzle |
| 47% | STARTFROM | 9 | With 58-Across, what four Down answers in this puzzle do |
| 47% | AGREE | 5 | What the nouns and verb in this clue doesn't do |
| 46% | RAISETHEBAR | 11 | Set higher standards, and what you must do five times in this puzzle |
| 46% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 46% | GETTINGTHEW | 11 | Winning, in sports slang ... and what each of four puzzle answers is doing? |
| 45% | CHANGECOLOR | 11 | What autumn leaves do, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue |
| 45% | BREAKSITALLDOWN | 15 | Explains in meticulous detail, and what the answer to each starred clue literally does? |
| 45% | FILLONESSHOES | 13 | Step in for another, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 45% | HIDEF | 5 | TV type, and, read differently, what you do four times in this puzzle |
| 45% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 44% | START | 5 | All the clues in this puzzle do this with 36-Across |
| 44% | GOOUTONALIMB | 12 | Act riskily ... or what three answers in this puzzle do |
| 44% | DROPTROU | 8 | Moon, or what three answers in this puzzle literally do |
| 44% | MIXEDDRINK | 10 | What's clued in parentheses for each of four answers, and found in corresponding sets of puzzle circles |
| 44% | CUTRATE | 7 | Cheap, and what you must do to five Across answers to make them match their clues |
| 44% | DAILYJUMBLE | 11 | Popular newspaper puzzle, and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 44% | RUNUPATAB | 9 | Accumulate charges … or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle |
| 43% | CLEANUP | 7 | Response to 40-Across ... or what can be done to 12 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 43% | PESTS | 5 | Anagrammatic intruders in this puzzle's longest Across answers |
| 43% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you need to do to seven Across answers for their clues to make sense |
| 43% | LANDONTHEMOON | 13 | Arrive as astronauts did 7/20/69 ... and what's literally seen in seven pairs of puzzle answers |
| 43% | PICKEDUPTHEPACE | 15 | Hurried, and what this puzzle's word ladder literally did in eight steps? |