| 100% | QUESTBATHROOMS | 14 | What King Arthur's men would like to have seen more of along the way? |
| 33% | ADA | 3 | Toothpaste brands would like to have this organization's seal of acceptance: Abbr. |
| 31% | NEON | 4 | Let's go to the 1980s! What will you see here? You will see a lot of this bright shade used for clothes |
| 31% | HARLEM | 6 | Let's go to the 1920s! What will you see here? The ___ Renaissance, a revival of Afro-American culture across the 1920s and 1930s |
| 31% | RAISELOADSOFASH | 15 | What you have to do if you want to make a serious bid for king of the forest? |
| 30% | EVADES | 6 | Gives the slip to the good guys, much like Joaquin Guzman has done a couple of times |
| 30% | COMPLETECONTROL | 15 | What a micromanager would like to have |
| 29% | BACKFIRE | 8 | To have the opposite effect of what was intended |
| 28% | BAIL | 4 | What many progressive D.A.s would like to abolish |
| 28% | WANT | 4 | Would like to have |
| 28% | WANTS | 5 | Would like to have |
| 28% | WOVE | 4 | What someone must have done to produce the Peruvian Guitarrero Cave's more than 9000 year old textiles |
| 28% | RIPS | 4 | Cool things to have on the knees of jeans, to many people |
| 28% | TUX | 3 | What a man would wear to the Oscars, for short |
| 28% | ELVES | 5 | What the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 28% | REBEL | 5 | What many teenagers do, to the chagrin of their parents |
| 28% | EGOCENTRIC | 10 | Like someone who only has I's for you? ... or an apt description of the answers to starred clues |
| 27% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 27% | MAINLAND | 8 | Most of the U.S., to Hawaiians |
| 27% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 27% | IGRAINE | 7 | The mother of King Arthur, according to legend |
| 27% | OTTO | 4 | What Ove's name was changed to for the American film adaptation of "A Man Called Ove" |
| 27% | SEABED | 6 | Something divers might like to see at the end of an extra long work day |
| 27% | ART | 3 | What we have "in order not to die of the truth," per Nietzsche |
| 27% | LEFTOVERS | 9 | What many have after Thanksgiving, and a description of the starred answers' gimmick |
| 27% | SEARS | 5 | What to "Come see the softer side of," in a slogan |
| 27% | BOX | 3 | Container (and, in a way, what you will find outlined by this year's clues related to the mega-meta) |
| 26% | JEEP | 4 | Let's go to the 1940s! What will you see here? You will see this SUV being launched and becoming popular |
| 26% | EERIE | 5 | Like much of King's work |
| 26% | ASHE | 4 | Arthur, the king of tennis after whom the stadium in New York has been named |