| 100% | REVERSEEACH | 11 | With 66-Across, hint for solving this puzzle |
| 69% | PEANUTS | 7 | With 66-Across, possible title for this puzzle |
| 61% | BACKTOSQUAREONE | 15 | Where you may go after reaching an impasse … or a hint for solving this puzzle's 12 starred clues |
| 54% | WOODY | 5 | With 66-Across, subject of this puzzle, born 12/1/1935 |
| 54% | SSORCAYREVE | 11 | Start of instructions for solving this puzzle |
| 54% | IFACLUE | 7 | Advice for solving this puzzle, part 1 |
| 53% | SISTER | 6 | With 64 Across, Audre Lorde book... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 53% | THEWEARING | 10 | With 112 Across, Irish street ballad that serves as an alternate title for this puzzle |
| 53% | THE | 3 | With 66-Across, where this puzzle's circled things can all be found |
| 53% | REMOVETHE | 9 | Part 1 of an instruction for solving this puzzle |
| 52% | BED | 3 | With 66-Across, cover of sorts, and a description of this puzzle's theme |
| 52% | COOL | 4 | With 66- and 67-Across, source of this puzzle theme's quote |
| 51% | DROPYOURWEAPONS | 15 | Instruction for solving six clues in this puzzle |
| 50% | DEER | 4 | With 73 Across, road sign that hints at something found four times in this puzzle (as well as its shape) |
| 49% | SOMECELEBRITIESYOUCAN | 21 | With 115 Across, theme of this puzzle |
| 48% | RAINING | 7 | With 41-Across, title for this puzzle |
| 48% | CLARINET | 8 | With 59-Across, hint to this puzzle's secret |
| 48% | POPINJAYS | 9 | Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle) |
| 48% | JACKIN | 6 | With 39-Across, apt title for this puzzle |
| 48% | TWO | 3 | With 54-Across, appropriate ratio for this puzzle? |
| 48% | LOSTIN | 6 | With 92-Across, alternative title for this puzzle |
| 48% | SAYHELLOTOMY | 12 | With 48-Across, memorable Al Pacino movie line ... or a hint for this puzzle's theme |
| 47% | SPICE | 5 | With 69-Across, locales for this puzzle's theme |
| 47% | PRESIDENTIAL | 12 | With 116 Across, this puzzle's theme |
| 46% | APIN | 4 | "Put ___ in it," advice for solving four answers in this puzzle |
| 45% | MOVER | 5 | Relocation pro, and a hint for six of this puzzle's answers |
| 45% | LPS | 3 | Old records ... or a hint for this puzzle's seven longest answers |
| 45% | BIRD | 4 | With 41-Across, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 45% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 45% | SWEET | 5 | With 62-Across, a possible title for this puzzle |