| 100% | STOCK | 5 | Word with more than 20 definitions in the Merriam-Webster dictionary ... and the theme of this puzzle |
| 42% | BITCOIN | 7 | Most popular cryptocurrency, and a word added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2016 |
| 42% | EGG | 3 | Omelet ingredient and the theme of this puzzle, as seen in 28a, 45a, 7d, 11d, and 31d! |
| 41% | SALT | 4 | Theme of this puzzle, found in the answers to 21-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across |
| 40% | ETAL | 4 | The AMA uses this abbr. with no period and if there are more than six authors, but only lists three of them in any case |
| 39% | NOTPC | 5 | Potentially offensive, and the theme of this puzzle |
| 39% | AHOUSEDIVIDED | 13 | Lincoln topic, and the theme of this puzzle |
| 39% | CROWDFUND | 9 | Raise money from a large number of people on the Internet, and a word added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2014 |
| 39% | JUMPERS | 7 | Some basketball shots ... and the theme of this puzzle |
| 39% | GOING | 5 | With 39- and 42-Across, activity of the spirits in this puzzle |
| 38% | UNITEDNATIONS | 13 | Organization honored on October 24 ... and the theme of this puzzle |
| 38% | DANDD | 5 | Seminal role-playing game familiarly, and the theme of this puzzle |
| 38% | TWO | 3 | Number of words beginning with the letter "f" in this puzzle |
| 38% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter "C" |
| 38% | SECRET | 6 | With 46-Across, some areas in Clue … or a hint to the first, fourth, twelfth and fifteenth rows of this puzzle |
| 38% | XANDY | 5 | With 30-Across, what most numbers in the clues of this year's puzzles represent |
| 37% | ONCEISNOTENOUGH | 15 | Jacqueline Susann novel, and the problem with some of the answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle |
| 37% | TREACHERYOFIMAGES | 17 | 1929 work that is the theme of this puzzle, with "The" |
| 37% | BLACK | 5 | With 41- and 43-Across, cop cruiser ... or a description of the five animals named in this puzzle |
| 37% | PRIVATELY | 9 | "Between us"... or the word hidden between U and S in this puzzle's theme entries |
| 37% | SECRET | 6 | With 74-Across, voting system that affords anonymity ... or the theme of this puzzle? |
| 37% | HIDINGOUT | 9 | Theme of this puzzle, seen seven times in the grid |
| 37% | THANK | 5 | With 47-Down, the theme of this puzzle |
| 37% | HIDDEN | 6 | With 16-Across, the theme of this puzzle |
| 37% | POLITICAL | 9 | With 57-Across, the theme of this puzzle |
| 36% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 36% | FACEDTHEMUSIC | 13 | Accepted the consequences of one's actions, and what the artists did with the hits in this puzzle? |
| 36% | KIDS | 4 | With 70- and 71-Across, what the middle of this puzzle is |
| 36% | CHCHCHCHCHANGES | 15 | Chorus starter in a 1972 David Bowie song ... or the theme of this puzzle, phonetically |