| 100% | KIDS | 4 | With 70- and 71-Across, what the middle of this puzzle is |
| 60% | CASTING | 7 | With 146-Across, what the center of this puzzle is doing during a 125-Across |
| 57% | THATWASNTON | 11 | With 70-Down, "Never would've predicted this scenario," and what can be said about the first word of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 56% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 54% | ANAGRAMS | 8 | What the three possible answers to each of 26-, 36- and 44-Across are, leading to 27 possible solutions to this puzzle |
| 53% | TRADE | 5 | With 38-Across, what the four key parts of this puzzle are |
| 52% | SEE | 3 | With 70- and 71-Across, agree ... and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 51% | PAYNOATTENTIONTO | 16 | Film quote (with 69 and 84 Across) that's the key to what's being ignored this puzzle |
| 50% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 48% | PALINDROMICWORD | 15 | What every answer on the perimeter of this puzzle is |
| 47% | GOVERNMENTBONDS | 15 | Treasury notes ... or what the two sides of 17-, 23-, 37- and 52-Across are joined with? |
| 47% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 47% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 47% | KCALB | 5 | The middle of this puzzle's grid, symbolically |
| 46% | INVISIBLEINK | 12 | What six of this puzzle's clues have been written with? |
| 46% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 45% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 45% | FILM | 4 | What each of this puzzle's songs also was, once you do the math |
| 45% | COCONUT | 7 | Palm fruit ... or what the creator of this puzzle's theme apparently is? |
| 45% | DISUNION | 8 | State of division, and what the first letters of the states divided across black squares in this puzzle spell out |
| 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% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 45% | EYE | 3 | With 65-Across, what the last words of 18-, 35- and 56-Across are to each other |
| 44% | TREACHERYOFIMAGES | 17 | 1929 work that is the theme of this puzzle, with "The" |
| 44% | PINATA | 6 | Party item depicted in the middle of this puzzle's grid |
| 44% | CROSSWORDPUZZLE | 15 | With 37- and 56-Across, what this is |
| 44% | GROWING | 7 | With 41 Across, gradually-apparent problem ... and an explanation of the puzzle's circles? |
| 44% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 44% | HIDDEN | 6 | With 16-Across, the theme of this puzzle |
| 44% | POLITICAL | 9 | With 57-Across, the theme of this puzzle |