| 100% | YOUNG | 5 | With 68-Across, still feeling like a teenager, say ... or a hint to the answers with shading |
| 51% | RIGHTYTIGHTY | 12 | With 36-Across, mnemonic device for turning 54-Across … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | PRIME | 5 | With 66-Across, peak evening hours ... or a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | THETIMES | 8 | With 38- and 52-Across, 1964 Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 49% | INONEEARAND | 11 | With 113-Across, heard but disregarded ... or a hint to interpreting the Across answers with circled letters |
| 49% | THELONG | 7 | With 63-Across, all that needs to be said, or a hint to what's found in each starred answer |
| 48% | HANGINTHERE | 11 | "Stick with it!" … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 48% | GROUP | 5 | With 28-Down, multisubject photos ... or a hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| 48% | BOXED | 5 | With 44-Across, Valentine's Day gift ... or a hint to the shaded squares |
| 48% | POSTHASTE | 9 | With immediacy, or a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 47% | III | 3 | The third ... or a hint to the rhyming ends of every Across answer |
| 47% | ONE | 3 | With 43-Across, something never to be repeated ... or a hint to the answers to the italicized clues |
| 47% | BARBERSHOP | 10 | With 63-Across, singing group ... or a hint to the ends of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 47% | THIS | 4 | With 64-Across, NBC drama ... or, in four parts, a hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 47% | ASABOVE | 7 | With 41-Across, philosophical principle in which Earth mirrors heaven … or a hint to the shaded squares |
| 46% | WEBOFLIES | 9 | It's spun by mendacious people ... or a hint to the shaded answers |
| 46% | LEAVEME | 7 | With 42-Down, "I don't want anything to do with this!" … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | REFUSED | 7 | Said no ... or, interpreted differently, a hint to entering the answers to 16-, 26-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 45% | DOWNTHEPIPE | 11 | How a perfect pitch comes ... or a hint to the missing parts of the shaded answers |
| 45% | OUTOFBODYEXPERIENCE | 19 | Viewing oneself from above, say, or a hint to what the shaded spaces represent |
| 45% | 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 |
| 45% | READALOUD | 9 | *Woodwind permitted, say ... or a hint to sounding out the answers to the starred clues? |
| 45% | THELITTLETHINGS | 15 | They're what really count, so it's said ... or a hint to the multilingual answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | ITGOESUPANDDOWN | 15 | How life is like the ocean, or a hint to entering the starred answers |
| 45% | TOOCLEVERBYHALF | 15 | Overly inventive ... or a hint to the answers to 17-, 26- and 42-Across |
| 44% | TWOCANPLAY | 10 | With 28-Down, words to a cheater ... or an honest hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 44% | SWISS | 5 | Deli cheese ... or, in three parts, a hint to the five longest across puzzle answers |
| 43% | FRENCHOPEN | 10 | Big clay court event ... or a hint to the answers to 17-, 26-, 40- and 52-Across |
| 43% | TWINKILLING | 11 | Baseball double play, in slang ... or a hint to understanding the 12 Across answers that have circles |
| 43% | MOVING | 6 | With 58-Down, vehicle for people on the go? ... or a hint to five strategically placed answers in this puzzle |