| 100% | SIX | 3 | Words per clue in this puzzle |
| 65% | EVEN | 4 | Like each answer in this puzzle - also each word in each clue - in length |
| 62% | DOWNS | 5 | 15 clues in this puzzle |
| 61% | THE | 3 | Word that appears in ten of this puzzle's clues |
| 60% | CONSONANT | 9 | The beginning of every clue in this puzzle |
| 60% | EL | 2 | Letter that starts each clue in this puzzle |
| 59% | RANDOMHOUSEUNABRIDGED | 21 | Dictionary source for each asterisked clue in this puzzle |
| 59% | GIVEMESOMESPACE | 15 | Request needed to understand four clues in this puzzle |
| 59% | ELEVEN | 6 | The number of clues in this puzzle minus one |
| 58% | TEN | 3 | Number of clues in this puzzle that contain factual inaccuracies |
| 58% | ONEA | 4 | In this puzzle, it’s clued as “Feeling :(” |
| 57% | START | 5 | All the clues in this puzzle do this with 36-Across |
| 57% | FREE | 4 | ___ association (what's needed to answer three clues in this puzzle) |
| 57% | MISSINGLINKS | 12 | Evolutionary mysteries, and a feature of three clues in this puzzle |
| 57% | RIGHTONR | 8 | Legal maneuver ... with a hint to answering seven clues in this puzzle |
| 56% | JULIACHILD | 10 | Chef quoted in this puzzle's starred clues |
| 56% | DARKARTS | 8 | What sorcerers practice ... or a hint to interpreting five clues in this puzzle |
| 55% | CROSSROADS | 10 | 1969 Cream hit ... or a hint to the seven "mathematical" clues in this puzzle |
| 55% | CATBURGLAR | 10 | Person who's inexplicably struck four clues in this puzzle, rather than their answers |
| 55% | FLIPFLOPPED | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 55% | MOVEDAROUND | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 55% | OUTOFORDER | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 55% | REARRANGED | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 55% | ERR | 3 | Count six E's in this puzzle clue, for example |
| 55% | ELESS | 5 | Unlike every answer in this puzzle (made-up word alert!) |
| 54% | FIVETIMESFAST | 13 | Hard way to say the answers to the starred clues in this puzzle (good luck!) |
| 54% | BRITISHISMS | 11 | Words found in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 54% | THEMANFROMUNCLE | 15 | Hit 1960's TV show with a hint to the nine starred clues in this puzzle |
| 53% | BASES | 5 | Contents of three squares in this puzzle, per an old comedy routine |
| 53% | LIE | 3 | "This is not the last clue in this puzzle," e.g. |