| 100% | BEEN | 4 | Word that has left out of this clue |
| 51% | TEN | 3 | Number of mispelled words in this puzzle's clues (oh, by the way, watch out for those tricky circled squares!) |
| 50% | THE | 3 | Word that appears in ten of this puzzle's clues |
| 49% | EIGHT | 5 | Number of words that are in this clue |
| 43% | WORDS | 5 | This clue has six of them |
| 43% | PHRASING | 8 | That of this clue is awkward |
| 42% | PARENS | 6 | This clue has two of them (for short) |
| 42% | ESSES | 5 | What this clue has two of |
| 41% | VIOLENT | 7 | Word that fills both parts of the Shakespeare quote "These ___ delights have ___ ends" |
| 41% | ICE | 3 | Cubes that are left out of a "neat" cocktail |
| 41% | DICT | 4 | Book that has definitions of words: Abbr. |
| 40% | ROLODEX | 7 | Storage device that has fallen out of fashion |
| 40% | CDROM | 5 | Storage device that has fallen out of fashion |
| 40% | CHINESE | 7 | Language that's the source of the words answered by this puzzle's starred clues |
| 40% | ITSINTHEBAG | 11 | "We have this won" ... or what could be said about each of the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 40% | RAGTAG | 6 | Having a little of this, a little of that |
| 39% | HEARTED | 7 | Word that can follow the starts of 11 answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | OMISSION | 8 | Information that has been left out from a report, say |
| 39% | ECLECTIC | 8 | Having a little of this and a little of that |
| 39% | OREO | 4 | Cookie that had "Game of Thrones"-themed packaging this spring |
| 39% | EGS | 3 | This puzzle's clues have two of them |
| 39% | CHRISTMAS | 9 | Word that can precede the starts of eight key words in this puzzle |
| 39% | CAKE | 4 | Word that can follow either half of the answers to the starred clues |
| 39% | INABOTTLE | 9 | Words that can follow the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 39% | UPROOTED | 8 | Like a tree that has been lifted out of the ground |
| 39% | INVISIBLEINK | 12 | What six of this puzzle's clues have been written with? |
| 39% | ORBIT | 5 | Trip that's out of this world? |
| 39% | UFO | 3 | Dish that's out of this world? |
| 39% | STARSHIP | 8 | Vehicle that's out of this world? |
| 39% | MOONPIE | 7 | Dessert that's out of this world? |