| 100% | CLUE | 4 | What leads you to an answer in a crossword |
| 68% | CLUE | 4 | It leads to an answer in a crossword |
| 49% | GRID | 4 | Where to enter answers in a crossword |
| 49% | MEMORY | 6 | Answer to the riddle "I form in an instant and last a lifetime. What am I?" |
| 47% | CLUE | 4 | What you solve to figure out a crossword answer |
| 46% | TIME | 4 | What's seen on a clock ... and an invisible ingredient for farmers to grow the crops you see in the puzzle |
| 45% | GOLDENHORDE | 11 | 13th/14th-century Mongol Empire region ... and an elemental hint to what's found twice in each answer to a starred clue |
| 45% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 45% | YOURATTENTIONPLEASE | 19 | Start of an announcement ... or a hint to what's hidden in the answers to the six starred clues |
| 44% | GRID | 4 | Where to enter the answers in a crossword |
| 43% | FLATTIRE | 8 | What a fork in the road might lead to? |
| 43% | SNAPDECISION | 12 | What a person in an emergency might have to make |
| 42% | PIN | 3 | What you have to remember to use an A.T.M. |
| 42% | KEY | 3 | What you turn in the ignition switch to start a car |
| 42% | ADD | 3 | What to do when you see a plus sign in Math |
| 42% | CRISIS | 6 | Instability in an area, leading to a drastic change |
| 42% | DEALBREAKER | 11 | Negotiations killer ... or, in a way, what each answer to a starred clue is |
| 41% | SAND | 4 | What you'd get in your shoe if you go to a beach |
| 41% | GATE | 4 | Area in an airport where you wait to board a plane |
| 41% | HIDDENTREASURE | 14 | What an X on a map might lead to |
| 41% | ACROSS | 6 | Horizontal clues and answers in a crossword |
| 41% | ACC | 3 | What you set up at a bank to deposit your money in, for short |
| 41% | TURNEDTHETABLES | 15 | Reversed an unfavorable situation, and what you did in the theme answers |
| 41% | ADDTOGETHER | 11 | Combine ... and a hint to what's hidden in eight long answers |
| 41% | METOO | 5 | "Ditto!" (and a hint to what's in the grid-spanning answers) |
| 41% | URL | 3 | What you navigate to in a browser: Abbr. |
| 40% | LANDOWNER | 9 | What a freed slave was to become in an 1865 order that was eventually overturned |
| 40% | ROUGHHOUSE | 10 | Rowdy play, and what's hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| 40% | DROPPINGBY | 10 | Visiting, and a hint to what we're doing in five Across answers |
| 40% | BETON | 5 | What you do in a casino, you ___ an outcome : 2 wds. |