| 100% | SENECA | 6 | With 1-Across, event essential to the achievement described when you combine this week's previous 1-Across answers |
| 35% | FSH | 3 | Answer to the riddle "What do you call a fish with no eyes?"... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 34% | YOU | 3 | With 39-Across, answer to the question "Who's the solver of this puzzle?" |
| 33% | 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? |
| 32% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle |
| 31% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 32 Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| 31% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 31% | THETIMES | 8 | With 38- and 52-Across, 1964 Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 30% | WALLFLOWERS | 11 | Shy sorts, with a hint to the answers on this puzzle's perimeter |
| 30% | CAPS | 4 | YOU PUT WRITING IN THESE WHEN YOU WANT TO DRAW THE READER'S ATTENTION TO IT |
| 29% | TUE | 3 | Day this week when BAS was at 1-Across for the Atlantic crossword: abbr. |
| 29% | YOUSEE | 6 | "It's like this," and a phonetic hint to the five longest Across answers |
| 29% | ELIZA | 5 | With 78-Down, character commemorated in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 29% | 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 |
| 29% | FIRST | 5 | With 5-Across, baby's milestone ... or a hint to the hidden layer in this puzzle's Across clues |
| 29% | DONTTAKEANYOF | 13 | With 33-Down, Skeptic's advice ... or a "noteworthy" hint to seven Across answers in this puzzle |
| 29% | BENTOUT | 7 | With 86-Down, very upset ... like the answers to five of this puzzle's clues? |
| 29% | MEASURETWICE | 12 | With 66-Across, carpentry adage that also describes the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 29% | INA | 3 | With 60-Down, on one's game ... and hint to the start of this puzzle's longest answers |
| 29% | SEE | 3 | With 46-Across, be angry ... or what you can do inside the answers to the six starred clues |
| 29% | REVENGEISADISH | 14 | With 11-Down, proverb about delayed retribution, with a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 29% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 29% | CONNECTICUT | 11 | The Constitution State ... or, when parsed differently, what you gradually do with this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 28% | TAKETHE | 7 | With 62-Across, 1976 Steve Miller Band hit, and what you do to make the answers to the starred clues make sense |
| 28% | HAPPY | 5 | With 1-Down, when you need less bread to get toasted? |
| 28% | WILD | 4 | ___ shuffle hands, play this card when you want to collect ALL the cards from EACH player's hand |
| 28% | THANKS | 6 | With 53 Across, hesitant answer to the question "Who starred with M. Ryan in 'Sleepless in Seattle'?" |
| 28% | ITSRAINING | 10 | With 63-Across, the opening lines to a nursery rhyme suggested by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 28% | SUPERBOWL | 9 | With 26 Across, memorable spots created by the answers to the starred clues |
| 28% | OUTMUSCLED | 10 | Overpowered ... or how the Across answers with circles might be described? |