| 100% | COMING | 6 | With 5-Across, arriving in the area in the vein of this week's visitor |
| 45% | VIBE | 4 | With 5-Across, assessment of the feeling in the room |
| 45% | FIRST | 5 | With 5-Across, baby's milestone ... or a hint to the hidden layer in this puzzle's Across clues |
| 43% | SECRET | 6 | With 46-Across, some areas in Clue … or a hint to the first, fourth, twelfth and fifteenth rows of this puzzle |
| 42% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 42% | XANDY | 5 | With 30-Across, what most numbers in the clues of this year's puzzles represent |
| 41% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 40% | PARTRIDGE | 9 | With the contents of this grid's circles, part of the refrain in 3-/6-/9-Down |
| 39% | GOING | 5 | With 39- and 42-Across, activity of the spirits in this puzzle |
| 38% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 38% | DECLARATION | 11 | With 114-Across, source of the phrase formed by the ends of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | WISH | 4 | With 5-Across, Thanksgiving-dinner staple that's aptly presented in this grid |
| 37% | MACH | 4 | The X-15 generates this number in the area of 6 |
| 37% | LIVE | 4 | With 7-Across, be in the lap of luxury |
| 37% | SONES | 5 | Sounds in the area of 256 of these, will cause hearing damage |
| 37% | MEL | 3 | With 104-Across, former voice of "This Week in Baseball" |
| 37% | MOJO | 4 | With 5-Across, archenemy of the Powerpuff Girls |
| 37% | LAKE | 4 | With 5-Across, source of the Truckee River |
| 37% | HANSEN | 6 | ___ Dam Recreation Area, site in California with one of the largest swimming pools in the U.S. |
| 36% | BOOBY | 5 | With 127 Across, one of many devices thwarting the burglars in "Home Alone" |
| 36% | PIG | 3 | February 5, 2019 ushered in the "Earth" variety of this beast |
| 36% | THATSTHEWAYTHE | 14 | With 42-Across, "C'est la vie," or a hint to the progression seen in the corners of this puzzle |
| 36% | FACEDTHEMUSIC | 13 | Accepted the consequences of one's actions, and what the artists did with the hits in this puzzle? |
| 36% | YOU | 3 | With 39-Across, answer to the question "Who's the solver of this puzzle?" |
| 36% | TIPTOE | 6 | With 63-Across, song in the 1929 film Gold Diggers of Broadway |
| 36% | MISSYELLIOTT | 12 | 14-Across and 29-Across rapper in the Songwriters Hall of Fame who turns 50 years old this week (2 wds.) |
| 36% | YIDDISH | 7 | Source of the six longest Across answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | AGAINST | 7 | With 46-Across, song containing the lyric in this puzzle |
| 36% | MASTS | 5 | Three of these came over with the Mayflower in 1620 |
| 35% | HAPPY | 5 | With 3-Down, message to all from this week's visitor |