| 100% | INTHE | 5 | With 7-Across, avoiding summer sun ... or like these answers literally? |
| 43% | CLIMBING | 8 | With 91-Across, super-antsy ... or like 24 Across answers in this puzzle? |
| 39% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle |
| 39% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 38% | FLIP | 4 | With 65-Across, part of a record ... or what each of this puzzle's five long Across answers has? |
| 38% | PRO | 3 | With 4- and 7-Across, both sides ... or the missing starts for all the remaining Across answers |
| 38% | HALF | 4 | With 38- and 40-Across, grocery purchase ... or what can be found in some other Across answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | WITHINSIGHT | 11 | Visible ... or, literally, where most inner letters of this puzzle's eight other longest Across answers are situated |
| 37% | DONTTAKEANYOF | 13 | With 33-Down, Skeptic's advice ... or a "noteworthy" hint to seven Across answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | SIDE | 4 | With 44-Across, off-the-record discussions ... or 12 answers in this puzzle? |
| 35% | LOSTINTHESHUFFLE | 16 | Like this puzzle's circled letters vis-à-vis their Across answers |
| 35% | JOINEDATTHEHIP | 14 | Inseparable ... or like three pairs of answers in this puzzle? |
| 35% | ALLTIEDUP | 9 | Even … or like three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | YOUNG | 5 | With 68-Across, still feeling like a teenager, say ... or a hint to the answers with shading |
| 35% | EVEN | 4 | With 34-Across, 50-50 chance ... or a hint to answering six equations in this puzzle |
| 34% | ACTIONPACKED | 12 | Like exciting comic books ... or this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 34% | YESNO | 5 | Like a question with only an affirmative or negative answer |
| 34% | PEST | 4 | With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 33% | EIGHT | 5 | With 50-Down, things centered in Across answers in this puzzle |
| 33% | POP | 3 | With 71-Across, Destiny's Child or the Supremes, and an apt description of this puzzle's longest answers |
| 33% | THREE | 5 | With 7-Across, like the Godhead, to some believers |
| 33% | YOUSEE | 6 | "It's like this," and a phonetic hint to the five longest Across answers |
| 33% | WATERSLIDES | 11 | Summer amusements ... or a literal description of three answers in this puzzle |
| 33% | BREAK | 5 | With 65-Across, go against the group ... or what the circled squares literally do in the answers to the starred clues |
| 33% | ACROSS | 6 | Like this answer |
| 33% | THETIMES | 8 | With 38- and 52-Across, 1964 Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 33% | JESSE | 5 | With 7-Across, track star at the 1936 Summer Olympics |
| 32% | STARSTUDDED | 11 | Like the Oscars ... or the answers to this puzzle's seven asterisked clues? |
| 32% | OPERA | 5 | Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one |
| 32% | OUTMUSCLED | 10 | Overpowered ... or how the Across answers with circles might be described? |