| 100% | IFI | 3 | With 55- and 58-Across, “No obligation to answer this, but . . .” |
| 56% | OOPS | 4 | With 55-Across, version of Cap'n Crunch with no corn squares ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme entries |
| 48% | WORDSPRONOUNCED | 15 | With 36- and 58-Across, what the answers to the starred clues are |
| 47% | CREW | 4 | With 65-Across, private dos, and a hint to this puzzle's five theme answers |
| 46% | TURNONAD | 8 | With 69-Across, change quickly, and a hint to completing three other long answers in this puzzle |
| 45% | THETIMES | 8 | With 38- and 52-Across, 1964 Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 45% | RIGHTTURN | 9 | With 55-Down, sign at some corners, and a hint to four places in this grid |
| 44% | FANTASTICBEASTS | 15 | With 68- and 74-Across, J. K. Rowling's first screenplay, with a hint to three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | INSIDER | 7 | With 42-Across, white-collar crime ... and a hint to four Across answers |
| 44% | MMM | 3 | "Delicious!" ... and a hint to every Across answer in this puzzle |
| 43% | 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? |
| 42% | ENDSINATIE | 10 | Concludes with no clear winner ... and what each answer to a starred clue does? |
| 42% | YOUSEE | 6 | "It's like this," and a phonetic hint to the five longest Across answers |
| 42% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle |
| 42% | INONEEARAND | 11 | With 113-Across, heard but disregarded ... or a hint to interpreting the Across answers with circled letters |
| 42% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 42% | DONTTAKEANYOF | 13 | With 33-Down, Skeptic's advice ... or a "noteworthy" hint to seven Across answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | THERES | 6 | With 36-Across, "This has strings attached," and a hint to the ends of the starred answers |
| 41% | PIANO | 5 | Answer to the riddle "I have keys but no locks and feet but no socks, what am I?" |
| 41% | INA | 3 | With 60-Down, on one's game ... and hint to the start of this puzzle's longest answers |
| 41% | MONEY | 5 | With 11-Down and 58-Across, aphorism about the effect of sudden wealth … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 41% | HALF | 4 | With 38- and 40-Across, grocery purchase ... or what can be found in some other Across answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | END | 3 | With 72-Across, evasive strategy ... and a hint to the last several letters of the four longest Across answers |
| 40% | MOVING | 6 | With 58-Down, vehicle for people on the go? ... or a hint to five strategically placed answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | FIFTY | 5 | 46-Across, with respect to this answer's location |
| 40% | WINKS | 5 | 41-Across, with respect to this answer's location |
| 40% | SEVEN | 5 | 22-Across, with respect to this answer's location |
| 40% | OVER | 4 | 5-Across, with respect to this answer's location |
| 40% | LEAVEMEOUTOFIT | 14 | "I want nothing to do with this!," and how to make the six starred clues match their answers |
| 40% | STARTFROM | 9 | With 58-Across, what four Down answers in this puzzle do |