| 100% | AMESSAGEIN | 10 | With 38- and 56-Across, what's hidden in this puzzle |
| 62% | ROUGH | 5 | With 38- and 49-Across, unrefined, and a hint to what can precede this puzzle's border words |
| 60% | PER | 3 | A pop, and what's hiding in this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 57% | DNA | 3 | Building block of life, and what's hidden in this puzzle's 4 longest answers |
| 56% | JUMPING | 7 | With 58-Across, cardio exercise ... and what's hidden in three puzzle rows? |
| 56% | HALF | 4 | With 38- and 40-Across, grocery purchase ... or what can be found in some other Across answers in this puzzle |
| 55% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 54% | BROKENPROMISE | 13 | Certain moral lapse, and a hint to what's hidden in this puzzle's theme answers |
| 51% | THETIMES | 8 | With 38- and 52-Across, 1964 Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 51% | CROSSWORDPUZZLE | 15 | With 37- and 56-Across, what this is |
| 51% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 50% | EXCUSEMEOFFICER | 15 | With 38- and 60-Across, what the man caught taking a dip in the reservoir said |
| 50% | TRADE | 5 | With 38-Across, what the four key parts of this puzzle are |
| 50% | ROYALFLUSH | 10 | What's hidden at the ends of 17-, 23-, 29-, 43- and 47-Across--if all are in, say, 38-Across |
| 50% | SIXDEGREES | 10 | Often-cited distance between things ... or what's hidden in this puzzle |
| 49% | CROSS | 5 | What this puzzle's across and down answers do |
| 49% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 49% | SUN | 3 | Space heater, or what's hiding in 2 of this puzzle's squares |
| 48% | ANEWBIRTH | 9 | With 23-Across, what this puzzle's subject promised in his most famous address |
| 47% | SMALL | 5 | With 62-Across, a trifling amount . . . and what’s found in four places in this puzzle |
| 46% | ATOMICNUMBERS | 13 | What this puzzle's two-letter answers correspond with, given their locations in the grid |
| 46% | XANDY | 5 | With 30-Across, what most numbers in the clues of this year's puzzles represent |
| 46% | THERESAMAY | 10 | With 39 and 56 Across, how a Tory and a pundit might differ in decisiveness |
| 46% | YEN | 3 | Urge hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers |
| 45% | RECYCLEDMETAL | 13 | Scrapyard commodity ... and what's hidden in the nine other longest puzzle answers |
| 45% | PRISONBREAK | 11 | "The Shawshank Redemption" event, and what's hidden in four puzzle rows |
| 45% | LITTLEBOPEEP | 12 | One who lost what's hidden in 19-, 34- and 42-Across |
| 45% | SECRETADMIRER | 13 | Unidentified sender of what's hidden in 20-, 36-, and 42-Across |
| 45% | PCORMAC | 7 | What's hidden in the four longest Across answers |
| 45% | SIXFEET | 7 | With 38-Across, Emmy-winning HBO drama whose name suggests this puzzle's theme |