| 100% | TOPTOBOTTOM | 11 | With 54-Across, how to read this puzzle's secret message |
| 61% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle |
| 54% | UPSIDEDOWN | 10 | How to read the "words" written on this puzzle's 108-Across |
| 48% | CLARINET | 8 | With 59-Across, hint to this puzzle's secret |
| 46% | CLOCKWISE | 9 | How this puzzle's grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues, when written in 17-Across |
| 44% | FREEASSOCIATION | 15 | How to solve this puzzle's starred clues |
| 44% | PUTNI6ELETTERSINORDER | 21 | How to get this puzzle's final word |
| 44% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Pixar film whose title suggests how to read five answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | TAKE | 4 | With this puzzle's circled letters, exercise a certain constitutional right, and how to answer each starred clue |
| 43% | ENDLESSLY | 9 | On and on ... or how to read 18-, 27-, 37- and 51-Across to understand this puzzle's theme? |
| 42% | TWO | 3 | With 54-Across, appropriate ratio for this puzzle? |
| 41% | ALPHABETICALLY | 14 | How to link the 12 letters in this puzzle with a single line to make a picture |
| 41% | STATE | 5 | With 54-Across, the theme of this puzzle [hint: New Hampshire] |
| 40% | SISTER | 6 | With 64 Across, Audre Lorde book... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 39% | PRESIDENTIAL | 12 | With 116 Across, this puzzle's theme |
| 38% | ITHASCIRCLES | 12 | With 50-Across, how one can tell that this puzzle was up all night waiting to be solved? |
| 38% | MAKEYOURWAY | 11 | With 26-Down, how to succeed in business, and a hint to this puzzle |
| 38% | THINKQUICKLY | 12 | To understand this puzzle's theme, read the ends of the answers to the starred clues and ... |
| 37% | JUSTADDWATER | 12 | "Instant" instructions, and how to complete this puzzle's starred clues |
| 37% | STOPMAKINGSENSE | 15 | No longer be comprehensible ... and, with its first word divided in three parts, a hint to how to read this puzzle's title |
| 36% | INTHECORNER | 11 | This puzzle's answer to 35-Across (spelled out four times) |
| 36% | BIRD | 4 | With 41-Across, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 36% | ROTATECLOCKWISE | 15 | How to see the image formed by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 36% | AROUNDTHE | 9 | With 56-Down, where to find this puzzle's 12 theme answers |
| 36% | INVISIBLEINK | 12 | Secret message technique ... and a hint to four puzzle clues |
| 36% | SOMECELEBRITIESYOUCAN | 21 | With 115 Across, theme of this puzzle |
| 36% | BETWEENYOUANDME | 15 | "Let this be our little secret" ... with a hint to 18-, 23-, 50- or 54-Across |
| 35% | UPSIDEDOWN | 10 | How the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all appear |
| 35% | WORDSWERE | 9 | With 121 Across, how a puzzle was easily fixed? |
| 34% | CALCULATOR | 10 | Device used to read the eight visual clues in this puzzle |