| 100% | RACE | 4 | What the vehicle in "lane one" of this crossword is winning? |
| 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% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 48% | ALIENS | 6 | One of the eggs used in this 1986 film is now exhibited at the Smithsonian |
| 48% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 48% | CEL | 3 | In 1989 one of these from the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was sold at Sotheby's for $50,600 |
| 48% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 47% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 47% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 46% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 46% | THEBIGBANG | 10 | The mathematics of this theory was one of the things Stephen Hawking was engrossed in |
| 46% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 46% | BONAPARTE | 9 | Napoleon ___, one of the greatest conquerors of all time who is studied in military schools to this day |
| 46% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 45% | COLUMN | 6 | This answer is in the third one of this puzzle |
| 45% | APE | 3 | What one of the combatants in "Godzilla vs. Kong" is |
| 45% | VCR | 3 | The first commercial one of these was introduced by Ampex in 1956 and cost roughly $50,000 |
| 45% | AREYOUFORREAL | 13 | "Seriously?!" … or what one might ask of the answers to starred clues in this puzzle? |
| 44% | BACKPACK | 8 | Travel the world with one bag, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 44% | ERGS | 4 | No one really knows what these energy units are, but they show up in crosswords a lot |
| 44% | PRIMETIMEEMMY | 13 | What each of the programs in this puzzle has won at least once |
| 44% | JET | 3 | The Lippisch Ente was the first one of these to fly, in 1928 |
| 44% | NONE | 4 | What one of the little pigs had in "This Little Pig" |
| 44% | MAKEUPTEST | 10 | What this crossword is, in a way? |
| 43% | RACE | 4 | The next one of these will start in Paris on September 5th, 2021 and end (hopefully) on November 16th, 2021 at Dakar, Senegal |
| 43% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
| 43% | PLANET | 6 | One of these can be found reading counterclockwise somewhere in each concentric ring |
| 43% | SOAPS | 5 | Galen of Pergamon described these in the 2nd century and stated the best were Germanic with Gaulish ones second best |
| 43% | DOWN | 4 | What the "d" in this crossword clue number means |