| 100% | LIGHTS | 6 | What might be strung from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 88% | TINSEL | 6 | What might be hung from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 88% | GARLAND | 7 | What might be draped from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 78% | PRESENT | 7 | What might be set under the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 47% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 44% | CODE | 4 | A message from the Pentagon might be in this |
| 43% | NEEDLEINAHAYSTACK | 17 | Item hidden somewhere in this puzzle (where is it?) |
| 43% | PEN | 3 | What you might be doing this puzzle in |
| 42% | TWOFIRSTNAMES | 13 | What six people in this puzzle might be said to possess |
| 42% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 41% | SEWINGKITS | 10 | Nine featured items in this puzzle may be found in these |
| 41% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |
| 41% | LONGWINDED | 10 | Verbose, and what the circled letters in this puzzle literally are? |
| 41% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 40% | WIRETAP | 7 | What the four undercover orgs. in this puzzle might do |
| 40% | FIVEPOINTEDSTAR | 15 | What can be drawn using the only V's, representing vertices, in this puzzle's grid |
| 40% | SPAREKEY | 8 | Item that might be hidden under a fake rock in the garden (2 wds.) |
| 40% | HELLSKITCHEN | 12 | Manhattan neighborhood where the meal in this puzzle might be served? |
| 40% | NEWGLASSES | 10 | What might be needed to clear up this puzzle? |
| 39% | PRIZE | 5 | What may be on the line in a competition |
| 39% | ARMS | 4 | What are featured in the theme entries of this puzzle |
| 39% | THEPIEDPIPEROFHAMELIN | 21 | Leader of the pack hidden in this puzzle? |
| 39% | MEATSUBSTITUTES | 15 | Vegetarian options … or what the shaded letters in this puzzle are, phonetically |
| 39% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 38% | ASL | 3 | What might be seen in the corner of a TV screen: Abbr. |
| 38% | PROSHOP | 7 | What might be in trouble if it's out of the woods? |
| 38% | STRANDSOFADOUBLEHELIX | 21 | What the highlighted squares in this puzzle represent |
| 38% | PAVEDROAD | 9 | What the circled squares in this puzzle symbolize |
| 38% | RESTART | 7 | Begin from the beginning, or what a person might do when they hit a creative block, and a word with 16a hidden in it |
| 38% | BIRTHYEAR | 9 | What the number in brackets is for the people featured in this puzzle |