| 100% | CAPS | 4 | WITH 8-ACROSS, WHAT WAS LEFT ON WHILE MAKING THIS PUZZLE |
| 43% | GOINGIN | 7 | With 43-Across, what this puzzle is doing |
| 41% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 40% | WORD | 4 | With 72-Across, what the answers on this puzzle's perimeter form |
| 40% | PARTING | 7 | With 58-Across, what this puzzle's circled letters are ... or what they're doing |
| 39% | TRADE | 5 | With 38-Across, what the four key parts of this puzzle are |
| 39% | PALINDROMICWORD | 15 | What every answer on the perimeter of this puzzle is |
| 39% | STEALTH | 7 | With 88 Across, what this diagram is an aerial view of (eight, to be exact) |
| 38% | CASTING | 7 | With 146-Across, what the center of this puzzle is doing during a 125-Across |
| 38% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 38% | SCRAMBLES | 9 | What all the answers on this puzzle's 37-Across are to each other |
| 37% | MINDMYPSANDQS | 13 | What I, the constructor, had to do while making this puzzle |
| 37% | INVISIBLEINK | 12 | What six of this puzzle's clues have been written with? |
| 36% | SUN | 3 | What's been fully "eclipsed" by 8-Across in this puzzle |
| 36% | SLIDESHOW | 9 | What is made on PowerPoint |
| 36% | TRANSFER | 8 | With 119 Across, one changing schools ... and what you must do between seven pairs of schools in this puzzle |
| 35% | CASTAVOTE | 9 | What many Americans will do on 17-Across (as hinted at by highlighting all the V's in this puzzle's answer) |
| 35% | CROSSWORDPUZZLE | 15 | With 37- and 56-Across, what this is |
| 35% | PICTURE | 7 | With 36-Across, what this puzzle features, literally |
| 34% | XANDY | 5 | With 30-Across, what most numbers in the clues of this year's puzzles represent |
| 34% | TREASUREMAP | 11 | What this puzzle is |
| 34% | KIDS | 4 | With 70- and 71-Across, what the middle of this puzzle is |
| 34% | BILLIE | 6 | With 19-Across, "What Was I Made For?" singer |
| 34% | POLITICSIS | 10 | With 44 Across, Will Rogers on parties |
| 34% | NEVERMISSAGOOD | 14 | With 56 Across, Will Rogers on discretion |
| 34% | QUADRUPLEPANGRAM | 16 | What this puzzle is, orthographically |
| 34% | TOFU | 4 | What douhua is made with |
| 34% | PLEATS | 6 | What kilts are made with |
| 34% | LEGO | 4 | What Minifigures are made with |
| 34% | DEAD | 4 | With 8-Across, subject of a theory that claims that most of the activity on social media is generated by bots |