| 100% | SEQUOIA | 7 | What is the only seven-letter word to use all five vowels and Q? |
| 42% | PALINDROMES | 11 | What the answers to the starred clues all are when their first and last letters are removed |
| 41% | REALIST | 7 | Practical sort ... or anagram #1 of the only seven letters used to make this puzzle |
| 39% | ROMAN | 5 | ___ numerals (what the initial letters of the answers to the five starred clues all are) |
| 38% | IRISHCOUNTIES | 13 | What the answers to the seven starred clues all are or contain |
| 38% | LIONSHARE | 9 | Almost all ... and a hint to the five circled letters |
| 37% | GREAT | 5 | Word whose letters are used to spell this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 36% | TURNDOWNANOSCAR | 15 | What 18 and 52 Across were the only performers to do |
| 36% | HAND | 4 | What's used in a high five ... and a word used with 38a to signify 50a |
| 36% | CHANGECOLOR | 11 | What autumn leaves do, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue |
| 36% | INGRAINED | 9 | Deep-rooted ... and what the uncircled letters of the answers to starred clues are? |
| 36% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 36% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 36% | DST | 3 | What Ariz. and Hawaii are the only two states not to have |
| 35% | ESS | 3 | Letter that can be added to the fronts of 4-, 6- and 7-Across to make new words |
| 35% | FLATFINISH | 10 | Paint choice ... and what the first word of the answers to starred clues can literally be |
| 35% | CENTERPIECE | 11 | Pivotal element, and what each word in quotes in the starred clues literally is to its answer? |
| 35% | SETLIST | 7 | Itemized concert songs in playing order ... and what all the words in answers to starred clues comprise |
| 35% | EYE | 3 | With 65-Across, what the last words of 18-, 35- and 56-Across are to each other |
| 35% | SINGINGTHEBLUES | 15 | What the artists of 16-, 27- and 49-Across are doing (in reference to the last words of their hits)? |
| 35% | COMINGINHOT | 11 | Arriving with great speed, and what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are doing? |
| 34% | BANKOPENING | 11 | 9:00 AM weekday event, typically ... and what the first word in the answers to starred clues can be |
| 34% | HERO | 4 | *Person who saves the day... and a word you may use to describe those being celebrated in this puzzle |
| 34% | FLYINGSTART | 11 | What the answers to 17-, 26-, 37-, 39- and 52-Across are all off to? |
| 34% | GOD | 3 | What each set of circled letters is, relative to the first word in its answer |
| 34% | CARRIESNOWEIGHT | 15 | Has little significance ... and to all intents and purposes, what the first word of 17-, 27- and 48-Across does |
| 34% | ACME | 4 | The company that was shown to have made all the evil weapons used by Wile E. Coyote to try and catch the Roadrunner |
| 33% | LATENESS | 8 | Result of pushing things back, and what's spelled out by eight letters that have been literally pushed to the back |
| 33% | COPPERCOIN | 10 | What the penny used to be |