| 100% | WIRETAP | 7 | What the four undercover orgs. in this puzzle might do |
| 56% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 53% | WORMHOLES | 9 | Theoretical shortcuts ... or what the four circles in this puzzle represent |
| 52% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 51% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 50% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 49% | BREAKINGBAD | 11 | #3 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time (as of 2016) ... and a hint to what the black squares are doing in four rows of this puzzle |
| 49% | LITTHEOLYMPICCAULDRON | 21 | What this puzzle’s featured athletes did in the years indicated |
| 48% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 47% | MAKESABEELINE | 13 | What this puzzle’s solver does when filling in the upper-left to lower-right diagonal? |
| 47% | PEN | 3 | What you might be doing this puzzle in |
| 46% | SUIT | 4 | What the 13 circled things in this puzzle constitute |
| 46% | STARTFROM | 9 | With 58-Across, what four Down answers in this puzzle do |
| 46% | KNIGHTHOOD | 10 | What the eight male musicians in this puzzle all achieved |
| 45% | SLANT | 5 | What the letters in this clue do |
| 45% | FORK | 4 | What the letters added to the four "stirred" words in this puzzle spell |
| 44% | TINSEL | 6 | What might be hung from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 44% | GARLAND | 7 | What might be draped from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 44% | PRESENT | 7 | What might be set under the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 44% | LIGHTS | 6 | What might be strung from the item hidden in this puzzle |
| 44% | PRINCESS | 8 | Any of the four people disturbed in this puzzle |
| 43% | RAINALCOHOL | 11 | What the sky might do in an inebriate's dream? |
| 43% | TWOFIRSTNAMES | 13 | What six people in this puzzle might be said to possess |
| 43% | AGREE | 5 | What the nouns and verb in this clue doesn't do |
| 43% | WATERFALLS | 10 | What the circles in this puzzle hold |
| 43% | YOUREPUTTINGMEON | 16 | What eight answers in this puzzle might say if they could talk? |
| 42% | OUST | 4 | What the president did to Mick Mulvaney in March of this year |
| 42% | CHAP | 4 | What lips may do in the winter |
| 41% | PARTTHEREDSEA | 13 | Emulate Moses ... and what four black squares do in this puzzle |
| 41% | PUBLICEDUCATION | 15 | What this puzzle's four missing clues spell, in order |