| 100% | ATTHEDROPOFAHAT | 15 | With the slightest provocation, and how four answers in this puzzle make sense |
| 47% | SEVERAL | 7 | Four or five, or how to make the theme answers in this puzzle |
| 45% | POPUPAD | 7 | Bit of Web clutter, and a hint to making sense of four answers in this puzzle |
| 45% | SUNNYSIDEUP | 11 | Like some eggs . . . and how four answers are presented in this puzzle |
| 43% | TAKEALETTER | 11 | Dictator's order, and how to make sense of the answers to the starred clues, in two ways |
| 43% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |
| 42% | PEOPLEOFTHECLOTH | 16 | Clergy ... and four answers in this puzzle? |
| 42% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle |
| 41% | MOVESOVER | 9 | Makes room, and when parsed differently, an instruction for four answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | DOWNUNDER | 9 | Nickname for 18-Across, and a hint to how four answers in this puzzle are to be entered |
| 41% | ANYTAKERS | 9 | "Who's interested?" ... or, phonetically, what four answers in this puzzle are vis-à-vis the answers next to them |
| 40% | ALPHABETICALLY | 14 | How to link the 12 letters in this puzzle with a single line to make a picture |
| 40% | IRONCLAD | 8 | Unbreakable, and a hint to making sense of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | AROUND | 6 | Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make sense |
| 39% | ATTHEDROPOFAHAT | 15 | With only slight provocation ... as suggested by some black squares in this puzzle |
| 39% | ITGOESWITHOUTSAYING | 19 | "We all see the obvious here, right?," and how to make six long answers in this puzzle match their clues? |
| 39% | ONCEISNOTENOUGH | 15 | Jacqueline Susann novel, and the problem with some of the answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | HANDSDOWN | 9 | Easily ... and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | HAUNTED | 7 | Full of ghosts ... like four answers in this puzzle? |
| 38% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 38% | GOODPOINT | 9 | "Your argument makes sense," and a feature of the ends of four Across answers |
| 38% | BODYOFWATER | 11 | Geographic feature, and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | SITUP | 5 | Crunch cousin, and a feature of four answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | LIFTOFF | 7 | Launchpad event, and a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | DOUBLECROSS | 11 | Betray ... or a hint to four answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | 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 |
| 38% | PARADISELOST | 12 | John Milton epic, and a hint to how four long answers in this puzzle were formed |
| 38% | STATELINES | 10 | Borders represented four times in this puzzle — both in the grid and on a map |
| 38% | SALT | 4 | Theme of this puzzle, found in the answers to 21-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across |
| 38% | ATOMICNUMBERS | 13 | What this puzzle's two-letter answers correspond with, given their locations in the grid |