| 100% | YOU | 3 | With 39-Across, answer to the question "Who's the solver of this puzzle?" |
| 60% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 57% | BENTOUT | 7 | With 86-Down, very upset ... like the answers to five of this puzzle's clues? |
| 56% | SMOKEYBEAR | 10 | Character who's wary of the starts to this puzzle's theme answers |
| 55% | INA | 3 | With 60-Down, on one's game ... and hint to the start of this puzzle's longest answers |
| 54% | XMARKS | 6 | With 40-Across, key to the "map" of this puzzle |
| 54% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 54% | 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? |
| 53% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle |
| 53% | TOE | 3 | Digit associated with the starts of this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 53% | NATURAL | 7 | With 39-Across, subject of study represented literally by the words spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 52% | POP | 3 | With 71-Across, Destiny's Child or the Supremes, and an apt description of this puzzle's longest answers |
| 52% | DECLARATION | 11 | With 114-Across, source of the phrase formed by the ends of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 52% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 51% | ELIZA | 5 | With 78-Down, character commemorated in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 51% | CAPITAL | 7 | With 31-Down, proceeds from the sale of an asset … or a hint to understanding six answers in this puzzle |
| 51% | THATSTHEWAYTHE | 14 | With 42-Across, "C'est la vie," or a hint to the progression seen in the corners of this puzzle |
| 50% | ENGLISH | 7 | Language of the answers to this puzzle's uniclues |
| 50% | LATERALSYMMETRY | 15 | Feature of this puzzle's grid and the answers to the six starred clues |
| 50% | GOING | 5 | With 39- and 42-Across, activity of the spirits in this puzzle |
| 50% | THETIMES | 8 | With 38- and 52-Across, 1964 Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 50% | OUTER | 5 | With 39-Across, region beyond the Kármán line ... or a literal hint to what this puzzle has |
| 50% | SALT | 4 | Theme of this puzzle, found in the answers to 21-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across |
| 50% | FANTASTICBEASTS | 15 | With 68- and 74-Across, J. K. Rowling's first screenplay, with a hint to three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 49% | WILEECOYOTE | 11 | Devious character who's the subject of this puzzle |
| 49% | FLIMFLAMARTISTS | 15 | People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 49% | CHECKALL | 8 | With 39-Down, fulfill requirements ... or how to fill four of this puzzle's squares? |
| 49% | WALLFLOWERS | 11 | Shy sorts, with a hint to the answers on this puzzle's perimeter |
| 49% | PESTO | 5 | Possible answer to the question “What should I make with all this basil?” |
| 49% | CRONE | 5 | Witch, and the combination of letters added to this puzzle's theme answers |