| 100% | COVERBAND | 9 | What eight long answers here do |
| 53% | MMM | 3 | What the eight longest answers have in common |
| 50% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |
| 48% | AND | 3 | What the puzzle's eight longest answers have in common |
| 48% | BACKDATES | 9 | Makes retroactive ... or what the eight other longest Across answers have |
| 46% | SPREADTHIN | 10 | What's found in the other eight longest answers |
| 46% | GETSTRAIGHTFS | 13 | Flunk out ... and what three long answers do? |
| 45% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 44% | HIDEINPLAINSIGHT | 16 | What words concealed by the other four longest Across answers do ... and also, what each of them is |
| 44% | DAD | 3 | Puzzle honoree found in eight long answers |
| 44% | HAIR | 4 | Bisected word in the eight longest answers |
| 44% | INSTRUMENT | 10 | What nine long answers contain |
| 44% | UTTERNONSENSE | 13 | What you find in eight of this puzzle's answers...or what you do when you say them aloud? |
| 43% | GOBACKANDFORTH | 14 | Move like eight long answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | LILY | 4 | Flower not "spread" across two long answers here |
| 43% | KEEPSANOPENMIND | 15 | What each of the other four longest answers does |
| 43% | YEN | 3 | Urge hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers |
| 42% | URUR | 4 | What the longest answers have in common |
| 42% | TOTO | 4 | What the longest answers have in common |
| 42% | NEWS | 4 | Consecutive letters in the eight longest answers, eight different ways |
| 42% | COMETOYOURSENSES | 16 | Wake up ... or what five long Across answers do? |
| 41% | DRAGS | 5 | What a long, boring meeting does |
| 41% | LCIRCLECOMESFUL | 15 | What this answer does |
| 41% | GOESDOWN | 8 | What this answer does? |
| 41% | RUNSACROSS | 10 | What this answer does? |
| 41% | BACKUPPLAN | 10 | Contingency strategy ... as found in eight long answers in this puzzle? |
| 41% | DAD | 3 | Today's honoree, found in this puzzle's eight longest answers |
| 41% | ENDS | 4 | What this puzzle does here |
| 40% | FEEL | 4 | Hiding what you __ (what the nine longest answers are doing) |
| 40% | PAIRSOFSHOES | 12 | What inspired three long puzzle answers |