| 100% | XANDY | 5 | With 30-Across, what most numbers in the clues of this year's puzzles represent |
| 47% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 43% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 42% | ELEVEN | 6 | The number of clues in this puzzle minus one |
| 42% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 42% | FIRST | 5 | With 5-Across, baby's milestone ... or a hint to the hidden layer in this puzzle's Across clues |
| 42% | AARON | 5 | With 30-Across, New York Yankees slugger who was Time's Athlete of the Year in 2022 |
| 42% | TWO | 3 | Number of words beginning with the letter "f" in this puzzle |
| 42% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter "C" |
| 42% | TEN | 3 | Number of mispelled words in this puzzle's clues (oh, by the way, watch out for those tricky circled squares!) |
| 42% | ANEWBIRTH | 9 | With 23-Across, what this puzzle's subject promised in his most famous address |
| 41% | STATESWONBYBARACKOBAMA | 22 | With 90-Across, what the 28 circled squares in this puzzle represent |
| 41% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 41% | FACEDTHEMUSIC | 13 | Accepted the consequences of one's actions, and what the artists did with the hits in this puzzle? |
| 41% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 41% | BRAD | 4 | With 59-Down, star of the work revealed by the first letters of the Across clues, which hint at this puzzle's theme |
| 40% | 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? |
| 40% | DIGIT | 5 | What each number in the starred clues represents |
| 40% | AREYOUFORREAL | 13 | "Seriously?!" … or what one might ask of the answers to starred clues in this puzzle? |
| 39% | CASTAVOTE | 9 | What many Americans will do on 17-Across (as hinted at by highlighting all the V's in this puzzle's answer) |
| 39% | START | 5 | All the clues in this puzzle do this with 36-Across |
| 39% | FOUR | 4 | The number of letters in this clue's answer |
| 39% | TRANSFER | 8 | With 119 Across, one changing schools ... and what you must do between seven pairs of schools in this puzzle |
| 39% | NATURAL | 7 | With 39-Across, subject of study represented literally by the words spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 39% | STEERTSYAWOWT | 13 | Many thoroughfares ... or what this puzzle's Across answers consist of? |
| 39% | FOUR | 4 | Number of 69-Across surrounding the monument depicted in this puzzle |
| 38% | GOING | 5 | With 39- and 42-Across, activity of the spirits in this puzzle |
| 38% | PINACOLADA | 10 | What I'm going to have after I've finished writing these clues and it's spelled out with the first two letters of five of the longest puzzle answers |
| 38% | CANADIANPROVINCE | 16 | What each of the 10 abbreviations in this puzzle's answer stands for |
| 38% | INVISIBLEINK | 12 | What six of this puzzle's clues have been written with? |