| 100% | DOCTORS | 7 | With 36- and 40-Across, organization whose name hints at some missing letters in this puzzle |
| 35% | HALF | 4 | With 38- and 40-Across, grocery purchase ... or what can be found in some other Across answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | RIGHTTURN | 9 | With 55-Down, sign at some corners, and a hint to four places in this grid |
| 33% | CROSS | 5 | With 36-Down, intersection ... as suggested by the circled letters in the middle of this puzzle? |
| 33% | SPLITSCREEN | 11 | Feature of some news reports ... and a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 32% | START | 5 | All the clues in this puzzle do this with 36-Across |
| 32% | BATMAN | 6 | 1960s TV icon whose name follows a pair of letters found, appropriately, 16 times in this puzzle's Across answers |
| 32% | CLOCK | 5 | Instrument that hints at the missing parts of certain answers in this puzzle |
| 32% | DEER | 4 | With 73 Across, road sign that hints at something found four times in this puzzle (as well as its shape) |
| 31% | CONNECTICUT | 11 | Name whose reading hints at 17- and 59-Across |
| 31% | WESTERNUNION | 12 | Big name in money transfers, and a hint to the neighbors found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 31% | PEOPLEOFNOTE | 12 | Luminaries like the eight featured in this puzzle? (hint: look at their first few letters) |
| 31% | JOHNNY | 6 | With 36-Across, "Babes in Arms" tune that's apt for this puzzle |
| 31% | TWISTANDSHOUT | 13 | 1964 Beatles hit, and a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 30% | PCS | 3 | Some laptops, and a hint to five long answers in this puzzle |
| 30% | JOHNLECARREBOOK | 15 | Theme of this puzzle, as hinted at by 17-, 23-, 45- and 59-Across |
| 30% | BENDOREGON | 10 | Western city hinted at seven times in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 30% | SPLITSECOND | 11 | Instant … hinted at four times in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 29% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter "C" |
| 29% | INNERCITIES | 11 | Urban areas (as hinted at by the circled letters in this puzzle's grid) |
| 29% | AFRAMEBUILDINGS | 15 | Structures illustrated twice in this puzzle through both black squares and letters |
| 29% | LOOSELEAF | 9 | Kind of paper ... and a hint to a sequence, each starting with a different letter, found in four other puzzle answers |
| 29% | LADIES | 6 | With 63-Across, what some performers saw in Las Vegas? ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 29% | ALPHABETICALLY | 14 | How to link the 12 letters in this puzzle with a single line to make a picture |
| 29% | PHYSICS | 7 | Science that deals with the phenomenon spelled out by 10 missing letters in this puzzle |
| 29% | DOUBLEORNOTHING | 15 | Risky wager ... with a hint to the letters in this puzzle's circled squares |
| 28% | WRAPSUP | 7 | Finishes, and a hint to the sets of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 28% | ALCHEMY | 7 | Pseudoscientific process hinted at by four squares in this puzzle |
| 28% | URDU | 4 | Language whose name starts and ends with the same letter |
| 28% | TIC | 3 | With 40- and 43-Across, game that's been played in each of this puzzle's corners |