| 100% | OUTER | 5 | With 45-Across, hurricane-prone area, and a clue to this puzzle's edges |
| 55% | LOWRISES | 8 | Short buildings, and a clue to this puzzle's theme |
| 55% | SOSO | 4 | Meh, and a clue to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 55% | DOUBLEPLAY | 10 | Baseball feat, and a clue to this puzzle's them answers |
| 53% | TOYBOX | 6 | Kid's container, and a clue to this puzzle's theme |
| 51% | TAKE | 4 | With this puzzle's circled letters, exercise a certain constitutional right, and how to answer each starred clue |
| 50% | LEFTRIGHT | 9 | With 64-Across, the political spectrum, and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 50% | SUGGESTIONBOXES | 15 | Slotted containers, and a clue to four of this puzzle's squares |
| 50% | AMOAMASAMAT | 11 | School phrase with a clue to this puzzle's theme |
| 49% | SECRET | 6 | With 37-Across, Election Day practice ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 49% | TILTA | 5 | With 37-Across, spinning amusement ride, and a hint to this puzzle's design and circled letters |
| 48% | GEARSHIFT | 9 | Auto part, and a clue to what's going on in five rows of this puzzle |
| 48% | CREW | 4 | With 65-Across, private dos, and a hint to this puzzle's five theme answers |
| 47% | THINK | 5 | With 61-Across, carefully consider ... or a clue to this puzzle's theme |
| 47% | POP | 3 | With 45-Across, students' unwelcome surprise ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 47% | DONTBIGEMPTY | 12 | With 45 Across, a query put to Bob Hope in 1939's The Cat and the Canary |
| 46% | ICE | 3 | Center ___ (hockey rink area, and a hint to this puzzle's theme) |
| 46% | ARTCENTER | 9 | Place with a gallery, and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 46% | WHERES | 6 | With 45-Across, book title with a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 46% | TOTALLY | 7 | With 45-Down, "Radical, dude!" (and a hint to this puzzle's shape) |
| 46% | HIDDEN{TAX} | 11 | Unseen price-hiker, and a clue to three squares in this puzzle |
| 44% | GENDER | 6 | With 43-Across, something that escapes certain categories, and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 44% | HEAT | 4 | With 53-Across, weather phenomenon with trapped warmth, and a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 44% | CHEXCEREALS | 11 | General Mills line, with a homophonic clue to this puzzle's circles |
| 43% | UPLIFTS | 7 | Elates, and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 43% | ADDED | 5 | Extra, and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 43% | SISTER | 6 | With 64 Across, Audre Lorde book... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 43% | BIRD | 4 | With 41-Across, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 43% | AGELESS | 7 | Eternal, and a hint to this puzzle's phonetic theme |
| 43% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |