| 100% | BLOCK | 5 | Word aptly represented by four black squares in this puzzle |
| 55% | ROADBLOCK | 9 | Obstacle ... or any one of four black squares in this puzzle? |
| 55% | TAXBREAK | 8 | Common campaign promise, and what four black squares in this puzzle create |
| 54% | ADBLOCK | 7 | Popular browser extension ... or a literal description of four black squares in this puzzle |
| 53% | COOKIE | 6 | With 36-Across, mass-produced ... and what each of four black squares in this puzzle is? |
| 53% | THENUTCRACKER | 13 | Classic ballet set on Christmas Eve, with a hint to four black squares in this puzzle |
| 53% | DARKART | 7 | Witchcraft ... or what each block of three black squares in this puzzle represents? |
| 50% | FLIPPINGONESLID | 15 | Snapping ... as suggested by some black squares in this puzzle |
| 50% | TEETOTAL | 8 | Abstain ... as suggested by the black squares in this puzzle |
| 50% | POT | 3 | Herb garden vessel ... as depicted four times by black squares in this puzzle |
| 50% | LIGHTBULB | 9 | Item suggested visually by the black squares in this puzzle's grid |
| 49% | PARTTHEREDSEA | 13 | Emulate Moses ... and what four black squares do in this puzzle |
| 48% | WHY | 3 | Question raised by four squares in this puzzle? |
| 47% | ALCHEMY | 7 | Pseudoscientific process hinted at by four squares in this puzzle |
| 45% | SPIN | 4 | Take a turn with the object illustrated by the central black squares in this puzzle (leading to one of the four circled results) |
| 45% | ATTHEDROPOFAHAT | 15 | With only slight provocation ... as suggested by some black squares in this puzzle |
| 45% | STRANDSOFADOUBLEHELIX | 21 | What the highlighted squares in this puzzle represent |
| 45% | SCALES | 6 | What some black squares in this grid represent |
| 45% | FOSSIL | 6 | What each shaded square in this puzzle represents |
| 45% | ONEMINUTE | 9 | What each square in this puzzle grid represents |
| 43% | PHYSICSFORMULAS | 15 | What the three sets of circled squares in this puzzle represent |
| 43% | LANDFORMS | 9 | Geographical features ... or what the circled squares in this puzzle represent |
| 43% | STATESWONBYBARACKOBAMA | 22 | With 90-Across, what the 28 circled squares in this puzzle represent |
| 42% | CELESTIALBODIES | 15 | Astronomical objects represented by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 42% | WAITING | 7 | On hold ... or what the seven rows of black squares in this puzzle's grid spell in Morse code |
| 42% | COOKIECUTTERS | 13 | Slicing tools in a bakery ... or what several black squares in this puzzle represent |
| 42% | ROUNDOFAPPLAUSE | 15 | Acknowledgement of success--four are hidden in this puzzle, each adjacent to a black square |
| 42% | GENDERFLUID | 11 | Having a variable identity, as suggested by four squares in this puzzle |
| 41% | DISUNION | 8 | State of division, and what the first letters of the states divided across black squares in this puzzle spell out |
| 41% | LANES | 5 | Divisions represented by the highlighted answers in this puzzle |