| 100% | SPANISH | 7 | What the answer at 26-Across is written in |
| 86% | ITALIAN | 7 | What the answer at 75-Across is written in |
| 86% | FRENCH | 6 | What the answer at 61-Across is written in |
| 86% | GERMAN | 6 | What the answer at 45-Across is written in |
| 56% | CASTAVOTE | 9 | What many Americans will do on 17-Across (as hinted at by highlighting all the V's in this puzzle's answer) |
| 55% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 55% | FLYINGSTART | 11 | What the answers to 17-, 26-, 37-, 39- and 52-Across are all off to? |
| 54% | AIRPLANESEATS | 13 | What the ends of the answers to 20-, 26- and 42-Across are |
| 52% | TUCKEDINBED | 11 | Put to rest, or what the answers to the clues at 17-, 23-, 37- and 49-Across are |
| 52% | WHITEHOUSEDOGS | 14 | What the starts of 21-, 26-, 40- and 50-Across are, for the presidents in their clues |
| 51% | BEARFRUIT | 9 | Be productive ... or what the answers at 17-, 25-, 53- and 63-Across do? |
| 51% | PENNAMES | 8 | What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways |
| 51% | EIEIO | 5 | What the seven longest Across answers have in common |
| 50% | ORDER | 5 | What the theme answers are in, or what they contain |
| 50% | EPICVERSE | 9 | What the Aeneid is written in |
| 50% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 50% | CARBONOFFSETS | 13 | They fund projects that remove a gas from the atmosphere, which is a hint to what's happening in four Across answers |
| 50% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 49% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 49% | STALEMATERIAL | 13 | Dated jokes ... and what the ends of four Across answers are, in a way |
| 49% | ANAGRAMS | 8 | What the three possible answers to each of 26-, 36- and 44-Across are, leading to 27 possible solutions to this puzzle |
| 49% | PCORMAC | 7 | What's hidden in the four longest Across answers |
| 48% | INN | 3 | What there was no room at, in the Nativity story |
| 48% | WEAPON | 6 | The "what" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant |
| 48% | GEMS | 4 | What are hidden in the four longest answers |
| 48% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 48% | AMBULANCE | 9 | Emergency vehicle whose name may be written across the hood in mirror writing |
| 48% | TURNINGRED | 10 | Showing embarrassment ... or what the circles in three puzzle answers are literally doing |
| 48% | BLUE | 4 | Navy, e.g., or what the starred answers can be, in various ways |
| 47% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |