| 100% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 69% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 63% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 55% | IRATE | 5 | What nine key words in this puzzle are synonyms of |
| 54% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |
| 53% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 52% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 51% | CHRISTMAS | 9 | Word that can precede the starts of eight key words in this puzzle |
| 50% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 49% | COLORPICTURES | 13 | Photos not in shades of gray ... or what eight answers in this puzzle are? |
| 48% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 46% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 46% | PHONETIC | 8 | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 46% | DOCUMENTARIES | 13 | 13-letter word that each theme answer in this puzzle is an anagram of |
| 45% | TWELFTHMAN | 10 | Home-field advantage in football ... or what the last square of the answer to this clue represents in this puzzle |
| 45% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 44% | FALLLEAVES | 10 | Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle? |
| 44% | SHADESOFPINK | 12 | What seven key words in this puzzle are |
| 44% | SPOILERALERT | 12 | Movie reviewer's warning ... or what the last words of each starred answer can be? |
| 43% | HALFTHEBATTLE | 13 | Important part of an undertaking . . . or what can be found in eight of this puzzle’s answers? |
| 43% | CUTFROMTHESAMECLOTH | 19 | Having similar qualities ... or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle are? |
| 43% | HEARTED | 7 | Word that can follow the starts of 11 answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 43% | FAIRYTALEENDING | 15 | What’s spelled out by the starts of six answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | BRITISHPRIMEMINISTERS | 21 | Eight of their last names are featured in this puzzle |
| 42% | PALINDROMICWORD | 15 | What every answer on the perimeter of this puzzle is |
| 42% | POPES | 5 | 10 featured last names in this puzzle are also the names of these |
| 42% | WICHITALINEMAN | 14 | Glen Campbell hit, the last word of which is this puzzle's theme |
| 42% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |