| 100% | PESTO | 5 | What you get when you blend the results of this puzzle's recipe instructions |
| 53% | BROWN | 5 | Find this color! What do you get when you mix all the colors mentioned in this puzzle? (Hint: It's the color of coffee!) |
| 44% | FILM | 4 | What each of this puzzle's songs also was, once you do the math |
| 43% | NAMES | 5 | Often redacted items when you get the results of the FOIA requests |
| 42% | JACKINTHEBOXES | 14 | Some surprises ... and what you'll find in the circled areas of this puzzle |
| 41% | MAKEA | 5 | With 69- and 70-Across, get to the point . . . or what you’ll need to do with some of the answers in this puzzle? |
| 41% | FOURPARTHARMONY | 15 | Barbershop quartet feature... or what you get when you string together the last words of the starred entries? |
| 41% | LINE | 4 | What you get when you connect the dots |
| 41% | EDIT | 4 | What you get when you turn the "tide"? |
| 41% | CONNECTICUT | 11 | The Constitution State ... or, when parsed differently, what you gradually do with this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 40% | GETTHEMEMO | 10 | What you do when you discover this puzzle’s theme? |
| 40% | UTTERNONSENSE | 13 | What you find in eight of this puzzle's answers...or what you do when you say them aloud? |
| 39% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 39% | COCONUT | 7 | Palm fruit ... or what the creator of this puzzle's theme apparently is? |
| 39% | FIT | 3 | What you get when you regularly use the gym |
| 38% | SPINCLASSES | 11 | Intense cycling sessions … or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 38% | CUTALONGTHEDOTTEDLINE | 21 | Start of instructions for what to do when this puzzle is done |
| 38% | PLURALS | 7 | What you get when you add an s to nouns |
| 38% | EGGWHITE | 8 | What you get when you take away the yolk: 2 wds. |
| 37% | COINS | 5 | What you earn when you solve this puzzle |
| 37% | BED | 3 | What you get out of in the morning |
| 37% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 37% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 37% | PALINDROMICWORD | 15 | What every answer on the perimeter of this puzzle is |
| 36% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 36% | THEFRENCHCONNECTION | 19 | Best Picture winner of the 1970s, or what five of this puzzle's answers have |
| 36% | XANDY | 5 | With 30-Across, what most numbers in the clues of this year's puzzles represent |
| 36% | CANADIANPROVINCE | 16 | What each of the 10 abbreviations in this puzzle's answer stands for |
| 36% | UNDIVIDEDATTENTION | 18 | What you are giving when you contemplate this puzzle’s theme? |
| 36% | MAKEUPTEST | 10 | What you have passed when you figure out this puzzle’s theme? |