| 100% | WATER | 5 | With the answer below, dilute ... and a hint to the four longest answers |
| 77% | WIRED | 5 | Tense with excitement ... and a hint to the ends of the four longest puzzle answers |
| 76% | END | 3 | With 72-Across, evasive strategy ... and a hint to the last several letters of the four longest Across answers |
| 75% | NONOS | 5 | Taboos, and a hint to the four longest puzzle answers |
| 75% | SEWNUP | 6 | Clinched, and a hint to the four longest Across answers |
| 73% | LOWHANGINGFRUIT | 15 | Easy pickings, and a hint to the four other longest Down answers |
| 73% | KITCHENMATCH | 12 | Pilot lighter, and a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 73% | BESIDES | 7 | Also ... and, in three parts, a hint to the four longest Across answers |
| 73% | CANDY | 5 | Sweets ... and, in three parts, a hint to the four longest Across answers |
| 72% | POSTHASTE | 9 | With immediacy, or a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 71% | SCARYMOVIETWO | 13 | 2001 Wayans Brothers sequel, and a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 71% | IBELIEVEICANFLY | 15 | R. Kelly hit whose last title word is aptly rhymed with "sky" in the lyrics ... and a hint to the starts of the other four longest puzzle answers |
| 69% | FALLINGLEAVES | 13 | Autumn occurrence, and a hint to the start of the other four longest Down answers |
| 69% | ANIMALHOUSE | 11 | Raucous frat film, and a hint to the starts of the other four long Across answers |
| 67% | JUICEUP | 7 | Supercharge, and a hint to what's literally hiding in the four longest Down answers |
| 67% | DPS | 3 | MLB rally killers, briefly, and a hint to what's in the four longest puzzle answers |
| 66% | SHAPESHIFTERS | 13 | Amorphous sci-fi beings, and a hint to what's hidden in the four other longest answers |
| 66% | DEUCESWILD | 10 | Card game declaration, and a hint to what can be found in the four other longest answers |
| 66% | EMMY | 4 | TV award, and a homophonic hint to the four longest puzzle answers |
| 65% | RANDD | 5 | Company's creative dept., and a hint to the five long Across answers |
| 65% | EMPTYWORDS | 10 | Blather, and a phonetic hint to the four other longest answers |
| 65% | SPLITENDS | 9 | Perm problem, and a hint to the four two-part answers |
| 65% | RANDOMORDER | 11 | Ideal deck-shuffling goal ... and a hint to a hidden word, and how it appears, in the four other longest answers |
| 64% | RISINGSEALEVELS | 15 | One effect of global warming, and a hint to the five longest Down answers |
| 64% | POWERCOUPLE | 11 | Influential pairing, and a hint to the circles in four puzzle answers |
| 63% | SKIPAD | 6 | Ubiquitous YouTube button ... and a hint to four long Across answers |
| 63% | ONEEYEDROP | 10 | Minimal red-removing amount ... and a phonetic hint to four long answers |
| 63% | DOUBLEDOG | 9 | Schoolyard dare intensifier ... and a hint to the five other longest answers |
| 63% | TWOPARTER | 9 | Story with a cliffhanger, perhaps, and a hint to the starred answers |
| 62% | INSIDER | 7 | With 42-Across, white-collar crime ... and a hint to four Across answers |