| 100% | PUNCTUATIONMARK | 15 | What ends many a line, and what begins each of the puzzle's three other long answers |
| 53% | TUMBLEWEEDS | 11 | Drifters in some Western scenes ... and a hint to what's hidden in the three other longest puzzle answers |
| 49% | GENEEDITING | 11 | Molecular manipulation technique ... and a hint to the starts of the three other longest puzzle answers |
| 48% | CHANGINGDIAPERS | 15 | New father's task, maybe ... and what the three other longest puzzle answers have in common? |
| 47% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 46% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 46% | PENNAME | 7 | Pseudonym ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 45% | WAYTOGO | 7 | Cry of approval ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 45% | HIDDENCARBS | 11 | Bane of a ketogenic diet, and what three long puzzle answers contain |
| 45% | TAILLIGHT | 9 | Rear warning lamp, and what can go with the end of each answer to a starred clue |
| 45% | CHANCEENCOUNTER | 15 | Bumping into someone, say ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue can have? |
| 45% | MOVIETRAILER | 12 | Preview ... and what the ending letters of the four other longest answers comprise? |
| 45% | NINETOFIVEJOBS | 14 | Predictable work ... and, in a way, what the other three longest answers are? |
| 44% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 44% | CLUBSANDWICH | 12 | Order served with toothpicks ... and what each of the other four longest answers is? |
| 44% | WIRED | 5 | Tense with excitement ... and a hint to the ends of the four longest puzzle answers |
| 44% | HIDEINPLAINSIGHT | 16 | What words concealed by the other four longest Across answers do ... and also, what each of them is |
| 43% | FEE | 3 | What "surrounds" each of the three longest answers |
| 43% | RECYCLEDMETAL | 13 | Scrapyard commodity ... and what's hidden in the nine other longest puzzle answers |
| 43% | PAPAS | 5 | Half of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answers |
| 43% | MAMAS | 5 | Half of a 1960s pop group, and what's found in half of this puzzle's long answers |
| 43% | SHAPESHIFTERS | 13 | Amorphous sci-fi beings, and a hint to what's hidden in the four other longest answers |
| 42% | ANAGRAMS | 8 | What the three possible answers to each of 26-, 36- and 44-Across are, leading to 27 possible solutions to this puzzle |
| 42% | MERITBADGE | 10 | What each of the other nine long answers is |
| 42% | KEEPSANOPENMIND | 15 | What each of the other four longest answers does |
| 42% | THATSAKEEPER | 12 | Happy cry on a fishing trip, and what can be said about the end of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 42% | MIXEDGREENS | 11 | Simple salad ... and what the starts of the five other longest answers are? |
| 42% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 42% | HAILSTONE | 9 | What each of the four longest answers is a term for |
| 41% | FLIP | 4 | With 65-Across, part of a record ... or what each of this puzzle's five long Across answers has? |