| 100% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 46% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 45% | CLOCKWISE | 9 | How this puzzle's grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues, when written in 17-Across |
| 45% | OXYMORONS | 9 | What the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all are |
| 45% | XANDY | 5 | With 30-Across, what most numbers in the clues of this year's puzzles represent |
| 43% | FALSE | 5 | With 68-Across, sprinter's infraction, or what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 41% | SCRAMBLES | 9 | What all the answers on this puzzle's 37-Across are to each other |
| 40% | ONEWORD | 7 | What the answer to this clue is not (it's two!) |
| 40% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 40% | SERIES | 6 | With 68-Across, end to some bingeing, and what appears six times in this puzzle |
| 40% | THEBRONTES | 10 | Literary trio found in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 40% | MISSIONIMPOSSIBLE | 17 | Popular action film franchise ... or what trying to find the item in this puzzle can be described as |
| 40% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 39% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 39% | INVISIBLEINK | 12 | What six of this puzzle's clues have been written with? |
| 39% | FIRST | 5 | With 5-Across, baby's milestone ... or a hint to the hidden layer in this puzzle's Across clues |
| 39% | PEST | 4 | With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 38% | CASTING | 7 | With 146-Across, what the center of this puzzle is doing during a 125-Across |
| 38% | 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 |
| 38% | AHOPSKIPANDAJUMP | 16 | Trivial distance, or what can be paired, in order, with the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 38% | ATOMICNUMBERS | 13 | What this puzzle's two-letter answers correspond with, given their locations in the grid |
| 38% | TRADE | 5 | With 38-Across, what the four key parts of this puzzle are |
| 38% | START | 5 | All the clues in this puzzle do this with 36-Across |
| 38% | TWOFIRSTNAMES | 13 | What six people in this puzzle might be said to possess |
| 38% | MAKESABEELINE | 13 | What this puzzle’s solver does when filling in the upper-left to lower-right diagonal? |
| 38% | FINALFRONTIER | 13 | With "The," what "space" is, in the intro to 5-/58-Across: 2 wds. |
| 38% | THEYALLCONTAINA | 15 | With 117-Across, what the answers to the italicized clues have in common |
| 38% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 37% | PENNAMES | 8 | What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways |
| 37% | ELIZA | 5 | With 78-Down, character commemorated in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |