| 100% | FLIP | 4 | With 65-Across, part of a record ... or what each of this puzzle's five long Across answers has? |
| 52% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 52% | PEND | 4 | Remain unsettled, or, read as two words, what five of this puzzle's long answers have |
| 50% | THEFRENCHCONNECTION | 19 | Best Picture winner of the 1970s, or what five of this puzzle's answers have |
| 48% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 47% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 47% | NOUSE | 5 | Pointless, or a phonetic hint to five of this puzzle's long answers |
| 45% | SCALE | 5 | What the four longest Across answers each have two parts of |
| 45% | TOE | 3 | Digit associated with the starts of this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 45% | EXTRACT | 7 | Remove, or, if you put a space after the fifth letter, a feature of five of this puzzle's Across answers |
| 45% | PINACOLADA | 10 | What I'm going to have after I've finished writing these clues and it's spelled out with the first two letters of five of the longest puzzle answers |
| 45% | THROW | 5 | Light bed cover ... and a verb that goes with the first parts of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 44% | QUADRUPLEDOUBLE | 15 | Super-rare basketball feat ... or what each of six long answers in this puzzle contains |
| 44% | OPERA | 5 | Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one |
| 44% | OPEDCOLUMN | 10 | Place for airing an opinion ... or what five of this puzzle's Down answers contain? |
| 43% | ISOGRAM | 7 | Phrase with no repeated letters (like each of this puzzle’s seven longest answers) |
| 43% | IMAGINARYNUMBER | 15 | What ends each of five answers in this puzzle, in a way? |
| 43% | LPS | 3 | Old records ... or a hint for this puzzle's seven longest answers |
| 43% | CREW | 4 | With 65-Across, private dos, and a hint to this puzzle's five theme answers |
| 43% | SWISS | 5 | Deli cheese ... or, in three parts, a hint to the five longest across puzzle answers |
| 43% | POLAROPPOSITE | 13 | One totally unlike another ... or what each answer on the edge of this puzzle has? |
| 43% | BLIND | 5 | With 74- & 75-Across, "invisible" part of a distribution list ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 42% | POP | 3 | With 71-Across, Destiny's Child or the Supremes, and an apt description of this puzzle's longest answers |
| 41% | DND | 3 | Role-playing game with a 20-sided die, familiarly, and a feature of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 41% | SEASON | 6 | With 41-Across, good time for a cliffhanger ... or what each of 17-, 24-, 50- and 63-Across has? |
| 41% | TTOPS | 5 | Features of some sports cars, and what this puzzle's four longest answers have in common |
| 41% | PUNCTUATIONMARK | 15 | What ends many a line, and what begins each of the puzzle's three other long answers |
| 40% | STEERTSYAWOWT | 13 | Many thoroughfares ... or what this puzzle's Across answers consist of? |
| 40% | WITHINSIGHT | 11 | Visible ... or, literally, where most inner letters of this puzzle's eight other longest Across answers are situated |
| 40% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |