| 100% | AMA | 3 | Woody Harrelson had one in 2012 in which he refused to answer questions that weren't related to the movie Rampart: abbr. |
| 25% | RUBIKSCUBE | 10 | Very popular item that has 40,320 ways in which to arrange the corners |
| 25% | QUIZMASTER | 10 | One asking questions he already knows the answers to |
| 25% | UPPERATMOSPHERE | 15 | Layer in which space stations orbit Earth, and what the answers to the starred clues literally have? |
| 24% | ORR | 3 | He was the first hockey player to have 100 assists in one season |
| 24% | ADAPTATION | 10 | *2002 movie in which a Susan Orlean work is described as “that sprawling New Yorker shit” . . . or what the answer to each starred clue is |
| 23% | OHMAN | 5 | What one might say after figuring out what the answers to the starred clues have in common? |
| 23% | SCRABBLE | 8 | Game in which the answers to the starred clues are legal plays but cannot be formed even if you have both blanks |
| 23% | PATHFINDERS | 11 | Explorers ... and ones who can determine what the answers to starred clues have in common? |
| 23% | SNEER | 5 | Look that Charles Darwin related to the snarl seen in carnivores |
| 23% | NOCOMMENT | 9 | Used in refusing to answer a question |
| 23% | PAM | 3 | Product that becomes an item to which it's applied after shifting the last letter one spot down in the alphabet |
| 22% | NOD | 3 | Land of —, region in the Old Testament to which Cain was banished after he had killed Abel |
| 22% | TWINKILLING | 11 | Baseball double play, in slang ... or a hint to understanding the 12 Across answers that have circles |
| 22% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 22% | CARBONOFFSETS | 13 | They fund projects that remove a gas from the atmosphere, which is a hint to what's happening in four Across answers |
| 22% | CAMEO | 5 | Erin Brockovich has one in the movie "Erin Brockovich" |
| 22% | FORTYTWO | 8 | Number that’s the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” |
| 22% | JEOPARDY | 8 | TV quiz show in which the answer is a question |
| 22% | OURGANG | 7 | Old group of movie kids that, in a way, the answers to starred clues could be a member of |
| 22% | HOMEOPENER | 10 | Game one for season ticket holders ... or, literally, what each word in the answers to starred clues can have |
| 22% | OWN | 3 | Belong to the one in question |
| 22% | ORALEXAMS | 9 | Tests in which the questions and answers are spoken (2 wds.) |
| 22% | PVT | 3 | Ryan was one in a movie where he gets saved: Abbr. |
| 22% | THING | 5 | "That ___ You Do!" movie in which Tom Hanks plays the manager of a one-hit-wonder band |
| 22% | ALA | 3 | State that elected Doug Jones to the Senate in December 2017: Abbr. |
| 21% | BADROMANCE | 10 | 2009 song by Lady Gaga that made her the first female in British chart history to have three number-one singles in one year: 2 wds. |
| 21% | ROOM | 4 | 2015 thriller movie about escaping captivity that was set largely in one location, a shed that the protagonists needed to escape from |
| 21% | MATCHPOINT | 10 | Situation in which one person might have the advantage |
| 21% | ETS | 3 | Aliens, like the one in a Spielberg movie: Abbr. |