| 100% | SECRET | 6 | With 74-Across, voting system that affords anonymity ... or the theme of this puzzle? |
| 49% | MAANDPA | 7 | Kettles ... or the theme of this puzzle |
| 48% | TREACHERYOFIMAGES | 17 | 1929 work that is the theme of this puzzle, with "The" |
| 46% | NOID | 4 | Reason to be barred from a bar ... or the theme of this puzzle |
| 46% | HIDDEN | 6 | With 16-Across, the theme of this puzzle |
| 46% | POLITICAL | 9 | With 57-Across, the theme of this puzzle |
| 46% | CHCHCHCHCHANGES | 15 | Chorus starter in a 1972 David Bowie song ... or the theme of this puzzle, phonetically |
| 45% | STATE | 5 | With 54-Across, the theme of this puzzle [hint: New Hampshire] |
| 44% | STATEREPRESENTATIVES | 20 | Some legislators (or the theme of this puzzle?) |
| 43% | BRIGHTIDEA | 10 | Stroke of genius … or the theme of this puzzle |
| 43% | XFILES | 6 | Theme of this puzzle, with "The" |
| 43% | THANK | 5 | With 47-Down, the theme of this puzzle |
| 42% | SOMECELEBRITIESYOUCAN | 21 | With 115 Across, theme of this puzzle |
| 42% | PARISFRANCE | 11 | World capital that's the theme of this puzzle |
| 41% | NINE | 4 | See 14 Across ... or the number of interconnected Monday puzzles before this one, starting with 3/15 |
| 40% | BORES | 5 | Tedious things ... or phonetically, the theme of this puzzle |
| 40% | REPRONUNCIATION | 15 | Key to understanding the theme of this puzzle |
| 40% | NOTPC | 5 | Potentially offensive, and the theme of this puzzle |
| 40% | AHOUSEDIVIDED | 13 | Lincoln topic, and the theme of this puzzle |
| 40% | CLOCKWORKORANGE | 15 | Theme of this puzzle, with "A" |
| 40% | SALT | 4 | Theme of this puzzle, found in the answers to 21-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across |
| 40% | UNITEDNATIONS | 13 | Organization honored on October 24 ... and the theme of this puzzle |
| 40% | DANDD | 5 | Seminal role-playing game familiarly, and the theme of this puzzle |
| 40% | SPACEINVADERS | 13 | 1970s-'80s craze that's the theme of this puzzle |
| 39% | URL | 3 | Its common extensions are the theme of this puzzle |
| 39% | JUMPERS | 7 | Some basketball shots ... and the theme of this puzzle |
| 39% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 38% | HIDINGOUT | 9 | Theme of this puzzle, seen seven times in the grid |
| 38% | CIVILWAR | 8 | With 63-Across, theme of this puzzle |
| 38% | CITIESONTHE | 11 | With 62-Across, theme of this puzzle |