| 100% | ASMALL | 6 | With 52-Across, answer to the riddle |
| 82% | BOOBERRYPIEAND | 14 | With 60-Across, answer to the riddle |
| 74% | ASHOTIN | 7 | With 52-Across, wild guess ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 70% | AKEY | 4 | Answer to the riddle "What force or strength cannot get through / I, with gentle touch, can do" |
| 67% | AFLATMINER | 10 | Answer to the riddle |
| 67% | IWOODPINEFIRYEW | 15 | Answer to the riddle |
| 67% | FSH | 3 | Answer to the riddle "What do you call a fish with no eyes?"... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 65% | MAN | 3 | Answer to the riddle of the Sphinx |
| 63% | EDAM | 4 | Answer to the riddle "What cheese is made backward?" |
| 62% | ATREE | 5 | Answer to the riddle "Dressed in summer, naked in winter" |
| 62% | BECAUSEPOEWROTE | 15 | Start of a possible answer to the riddle |
| 62% | MAN | 3 | Answer to the Sphinx's Riddle |
| 61% | ASUNBURNEDPANDA | 15 | Answer to another spelling of the riddle |
| 61% | THISNEWSPAPER | 13 | Answer to one spelling of the riddle |
| 61% | ROAD | 4 | Answer to the riddle "What can go up and down without moving?" |
| 60% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 60% | AJET | 4 | Answer to the riddle "The higher it goes, the less you hear it" |
| 60% | OPTIMIST | 8 | One who identifies with the answers to the starred Across clues |
| 60% | APIN | 4 | Answer to the folk riddle "Big head, no hair" |
| 60% | ABEE | 4 | Answer to the folk riddle "Worker in yellow clothes" |
| 60% | ATREE | 5 | Answer to the folk riddle "One leg, many hands" |
| 59% | STAMP | 5 | Answer to the riddle "What stays in one corner but travels around the world?" |
| 59% | AJAR | 4 | Answer to the riddle "When is a door not a door? When it's ___" |
| 59% | ASMILE | 6 | Answer to the riddle "What can someone wear that never goes out of style?" |
| 59% | ASHIP | 5 | Answer to the riddle “I have one bow but no arrows. What am I?” |
| 58% | VENA | 4 | With 52-Down, passage to the heart |
| 58% | YOU | 3 | With 39-Across, answer to the question "Who's the solver of this puzzle?" |
| 58% | THANKS | 6 | With 53 Across, hesitant answer to the question "Who starred with M. Ryan in 'Sleepless in Seattle'?" |
| 58% | MEMORY | 6 | Answer to the riddle "I form in an instant and last a lifetime. What am I?" |
| 57% | NEWSPAPER | 9 | Answer to an old riddle alluded to by the starts of 17-, 32-, 42- and 64-Across |