| 100% | RHYME | 5 | What the puzzle's keywords each lack |
| 53% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 51% | THEME | 5 | What the puzzle's title hints at |
| 49% | AND | 3 | What the puzzle's eight longest answers have in common |
| 49% | FILM | 4 | What each of this puzzle's songs also was, once you do the math |
| 48% | BOROUGH | 7 | What each step in this puzzle lacks, in proper order |
| 47% | SCRAMBLES | 9 | What all the answers on this puzzle's 37-Across are to each other |
| 47% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 47% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 46% | CANADIANPROVINCE | 16 | What each of the 10 abbreviations in this puzzle's answer stands for |
| 46% | RAMP | 4 | What each circled model in this puzzle ascends or descends, and what's spelled by the letters where the models cross |
| 46% | PRIMETIMEEMMY | 13 | What each of the programs in this puzzle has won at least once |
| 45% | NOCLUE | 6 | What the puzzled have |
| 45% | CLIMBSTHELADDER | 15 | Advances through corporate ranks … and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does |
| 45% | OUTOF | 5 | Lacking, and what can go with each word in the answers to starred clues |
| 44% | POCKETS | 7 | What the U's in this puzzle's solution represent |
| 44% | DEBT | 4 | With 11 Down, much-debated political limit ... and what the puzzle's circled squares compose? |
| 44% | OXYMORONS | 9 | What the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all are |
| 43% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 43% | BROKENBAT | 9 | Cause of wood splinters in the infield ... and what each set of puzzle circles represents |
| 43% | TIRE | 4 | Bad thing to blow ... or what each of the circled letters in this puzzle represents |
| 43% | POLAROPPOSITE | 13 | One totally unlike another ... or what each answer on the edge of this puzzle has? |
| 42% | PITY | 4 | What the hardhearted lack |
| 42% | ANAGRAMS | 8 | What the three possible answers to each of 26-, 36- and 44-Across are, leading to 27 possible solutions to this puzzle |
| 42% | PRECISENESS | 11 | What the blunderbuss lacked |
| 42% | LITTHEOLYMPICCAULDRON | 21 | What this puzzle’s featured athletes did in the years indicated |
| 42% | RHYME | 5 | What each of the longest words in 17-Across, 65-Across, 10-Down and 25-Down famously lacks |
| 42% | WORD | 4 | With 72-Across, what the answers on this puzzle's perimeter form |
| 41% | SMILEYFACE | 10 | What's formed by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 41% | ARMS | 4 | What the Venus de Milo lacks |