| 100% | FORK | 4 | What the letters added to the four "stirred" words in this puzzle spell |
| 56% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 55% | LETSCALLITADAY | 14 | "I think we're done here" … or a hint to translating each of the four shaded words in this puzzle |
| 54% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 54% | REDEFINED | 9 | Like nine words in this puzzle, or what their first letters spell out |
| 52% | PHONETIC | 8 | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 52% | ABRIDGED | 8 | Shortened, and what the letters removed from eight novels in this puzzle spell out |
| 51% | TIRE | 4 | Bad thing to blow ... or what each of the circled letters in this puzzle represents |
| 51% | SUBCONTRACTED | 13 | Outsourced, and what happened to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 50% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 50% | ONTHEROAD | 9 | Kerouac novel, and a hint to the four starred women in this puzzle |
| 50% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 50% | RAMP | 4 | What each circled model in this puzzle ascends or descends, and what's spelled by the letters where the models cross |
| 50% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
| 50% | ANGLE | 5 | Relationship of the circled letters to the apt words they connect to in this puzzle |
| 49% | DISUNION | 8 | State of division, and what the first letters of the states divided across black squares in this puzzle spell out |
| 49% | ANYTAKERS | 9 | "Who's interested?" ... or, phonetically, what four answers in this puzzle are vis-à-vis the answers next to them |
| 49% | BACKUPTHETRUCK | 14 | "Wait, what did you just say?," or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 49% | NOWYOUSEEITNOWYOUDONT | 21 | Magic words … or a hint to the other long answers in this puzzle |
| 48% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 48% | FOLLOWDIRECTIONS | 16 | What one must do using the circled letters to solve this puzzle |
| 48% | MILKSHAKES | 10 | Diner treats ... or a hint to what's happening to the words in the circled squares in this puzzle? |
| 48% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 48% | FISHORCUTBAIT | 13 | Line to the indecisive, and what you'll need to add in order to complete some lines in this puzzle |
| 48% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter "C" |
| 48% | SHAKEWEIGHT | 11 | Oscillating exercise device of infomercial fame . . . or how to arrive at the four strings of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 47% | SMILEYFACE | 10 | What's formed by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 47% | AROUND | 6 | Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make sense |
| 47% | YOUDONTSAY | 10 | "Is that so?," or a hint to the communication methods found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 47% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |