| 100% | TIME | 4 | With 63-Across, what (in abbreviated form) has been added to the long Down answers |
| 48% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 47% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 46% | THELONG | 7 | With 63-Across, all that needs to be said, or a hint to what's found in each starred answer |
| 44% | HIDDENGEMS | 10 | What the long Across answers with circles have |
| 44% | EIEIO | 5 | What the seven longest Across answers have in common |
| 44% | THEYALLCONTAINA | 15 | With 117-Across, what the answers to the italicized clues have in common |
| 43% | HOMESTRETCH | 11 | Hint to what the other nine longest answers have in common |
| 42% | MEMORY | 6 | Answer to the riddle "I form in an instant and last a lifetime. What am I?" |
| 41% | CALORIES | 8 | What's been added to the starred answers |
| 40% | DEUCESWILD | 10 | Card game declaration, and a hint to what can be found in the four other longest answers |
| 40% | INNER | 5 | With 60-Down, what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 39% | ASHOTIN | 7 | With 52-Across, wild guess ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 39% | FINALFRONTIER | 13 | With "The," what "space" is, in the intro to 5-/58-Across: 2 wds. |
| 39% | FALSE | 5 | With 68-Across, sprinter's infraction, or what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 39% | THATSALL | 8 | With 63-Across, "The end" ... or what can be said about the novels in the clues for 25-, 38- and 52-Across |
| 39% | CARBONOFFSETS | 13 | They fund projects that remove a gas from the atmosphere, which is a hint to what's happening in four Across answers |
| 38% | URUR | 4 | What the longest answers have in common |
| 38% | TOTO | 4 | What the longest answers have in common |
| 38% | INASCRABBLEGAME | 15 | With 30- and 49-Across, test question to be answered by filling in the correct circle |
| 38% | USA | 3 | What the five longest answers have in common |
| 38% | ABCD | 4 | What the ten longest answers have in common |
| 38% | AEIOU | 5 | What the ten longest answers have in common |
| 38% | ONOFF | 5 | What the three longest answers have in common |
| 38% | URUR | 4 | What the four longest answers have in common |
| 38% | NNNN | 4 | What the five longest answers have in common |
| 38% | OROR | 4 | What the seven longest answers have in common |
| 38% | CCC | 3 | What the three longest answers have in common |
| 38% | MMM | 3 | What the eight longest answers have in common |
| 38% | HAHA | 4 | What the four longest answers have in common |