| 100% | HOST | 4 | What no one did at this year's Oscars |
| 45% | ROMA | 4 | Best Foreign Language Film winner at this year's Oscars |
| 42% | ACE | 3 | One of many served at this year's Australian Open |
| 38% | DRDRE | 5 | Performer at this year's Super Bowl |
| 37% | CROSS | 5 | What words do in a puzzle like this one |
| 37% | ACE | 3 | One who is really good at what he does |
| 36% | FOLLOWDIRECTIONS | 16 | What one must do using the circled letters to solve this puzzle |
| 36% | LEFTHAND | 8 | Right one doesn't know what this one is doing |
| 35% | FLEW | 4 | One did this Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 35% | ERGS | 4 | No one really knows what these energy units are, but they show up in crosswords a lot |
| 35% | SANDRAOH | 8 | One of the hosts of this year's Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton |
| 35% | FLIMFLAMARTISTS | 15 | People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | HIDES | 5 | What only one person does, at the beginning of a game of sardines |
| 35% | LITTHEOLYMPICCAULDRON | 21 | What this puzzle’s featured athletes did in the years indicated |
| 35% | ANTE | 4 | No one's in until this is put in |
| 35% | OUST | 4 | What the president did to Mick Mulvaney in March of this year |
| 34% | SETS | 4 | What the sun does at day's end |
| 34% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 34% | PARTYPOOPER | 11 | One who's no fun at all |
| 34% | EXPATRIATE | 10 | One who's no longer at home |
| 34% | CUTSCORNERS | 11 | What this puzzle's theme does? |
| 33% | CROSS | 5 | What five horizontal answers do with this one |
| 33% | EAR | 3 | What's at one end of a stethoscope |
| 33% | CONTRARIAN | 10 | One who doesn't do what's expected |
| 33% | IVEGOTYOU | 9 | "No, no, this one's on me" |
| 33% | CLOSE | 5 | Actress Glenn of "Four Good Days" which had its premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival |
| 33% | THEME | 5 | What this puzzle's title hints at |
| 33% | SMOKE | 5 | There's no fire without this, as per a phrase (what rises out of one) |
| 33% | USEDTO | 6 | Did at one time |
| 33% | SOLO | 4 | What can one do? |