| 100% | PUBLICEDUCATION | 15 | What this puzzle's four missing clues spell, in order |
| 48% | INONESENSE | 10 | Description of this puzzle's circled letters, and a clue to what they spell |
| 45% | SPELLEDOUT | 10 | Explained in great detail ... or what four of this puzzle's clues are? |
| 45% | FILE | 4 | What this puzzle's data is kept in |
| 44% | EARLOFCHESTER | 13 | One title for this puzzle's subject, spelled in order by the circled letters |
| 43% | LITTHEOLYMPICCAULDRON | 21 | What this puzzle’s featured athletes did in the years indicated |
| 43% | CROSSWORDESE | 12 | What this puzzle's capitalized clues are, both by definition and pun |
| 42% | ATOMICNUMBERS | 13 | What this puzzle's two-letter answers correspond with, given their locations in the grid |
| 41% | THEME | 5 | What this clue's number is for this puzzle |
| 41% | TTOPS | 5 | Features of some sports cars, and what this puzzle's four longest answers have in common |
| 41% | FORK | 4 | What the letters added to the four "stirred" words in this puzzle spell |
| 41% | ANEWBIRTH | 9 | With 23-Across, what this puzzle's subject promised in his most famous address |
| 41% | BOROUGH | 7 | What each step in this puzzle lacks, in proper order |
| 41% | RAISEDTHEBAR | 12 | Elevated expectations ... or what this puzzle's maker did to five answers in this puzzle? |
| 40% | CLOCKWISE | 9 | How this puzzle's grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues, when written in 17-Across |
| 40% | PER | 3 | A pop, and what's hiding in this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 40% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 40% | HIGHTEA | 7 | British afternoon tradition, and what this puzzle's four longest answers literally have? |
| 39% | ONEA | 4 | In this puzzle, it’s clued as “Feeling :(” |
| 39% | MAKESABEELINE | 13 | What this puzzle’s solver does when filling in the upper-left to lower-right diagonal? |
| 39% | ALLCAPS | 7 | WHAT THIS CLUE IS IN |
| 39% | BOLD | 4 | What this clue is in |
| 39% | ERR | 3 | Use the answer to any of this puzzle's starred clues in ordinary conversation? |
| 38% | DEN | 3 | Room divided in this puzzle's four longest entries |
| 38% | XANDY | 5 | With 30-Across, what most numbers in the clues of this year's puzzles represent |
| 38% | CAPS | 4 | WHAT THIS CLUE IS WRITTEN IN |
| 38% | ALLCAPS | 7 | WHAT THIS CLUE IS WRITTEN IN |
| 38% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| 38% | PARALLELOGRAM | 13 | What's revealed by connecting the special squares in this puzzle in order |
| 38% | CROPSUP | 7 | Arises, and what's seen four times in this puzzle |