| Puzzle solver's goal | 24 |
| Puzzle solver's happy shout | 31 |
| Puzzle solver's smudge | 26 |
| Puzzle solver's smudges | 27 |
| Puzzle solvers' cries | 25 |
| Puzzle solving aid | 18 |
| Puzzle starter | 14 |
| Puzzle such as this one | 23 |
| Puzzle that involves a quote | 28 |
| Puzzle that involves a quoted passage | 37 |
| Puzzle that may go from "hard" to "easy" | 60 |
| Puzzle that moved from the U.S. to Japan to England and back to the U.S. | 72 |
| Puzzle theme | 12 |
| Puzzle theme missing? | 21 |
| Puzzle theme which appears nine more times in the grid | 54 |
| Puzzle theme, briefly | 21 |
| Puzzle theme, part 3 | 20 |
| Puzzle title people hidden in eight long answers | 48 |
| Puzzle toy with over 7 quattuordecillion combinations | 53 |
| Puzzle type | 11 |
| Puzzle type: abbr. | 18 |
| Puzzle variety | 14 |
| Puzzle video game series Toko ___ | 33 |
| Puzzle video game where you take out pigs | 41 |
| Puzzle video game with three heroes | 35 |
| Puzzle whose name means "cleverness squared" | 54 |
| Puzzle whose solution is a line | 31 |
| Puzzle with a start and a finish | 32 |
| Puzzle with a start and an end | 30 |
| Puzzle with an "Enter" instruction | 44 |
| Puzzle with an exit | 19 |
| Puzzle with blind alleys | 24 |
| Puzzle with dead ends | 21 |
| Puzzle with dead-end paths | 26 |
| Puzzle with its pluses and minuses? | 35 |
| Puzzle with number squares | 26 |
| Puzzle with only one way out | 28 |
| Puzzle with passages | 20 |
| Puzzle with pictures | 20 |
| Puzzle with plus signs | 22 |
| Puzzle within a puzzle | 22 |
| Puzzle word | 11 |
| Puzzle worker | 13 |
| Puzzle's center | 19 |
| Puzzle's hidden theme | 25 |
| Puzzle's theme | 18 |
| Puzzle's theme (said by a young cyclist!) | 45 |
| Puzzle's theme was his campaign song | 40 |
| Puzzle-book feature | 19 |
| Puzzle-column heading | 21 |
| Puzzle-cutting tool | 19 |
| Puzzle-solver's shout | 25 |
| Puzzle-solving asset | 20 |
| Puzzle-solving choice | 21 |
| Puzzle-solving level | 20 |
| Puzzle-theme mystery writer: 1809-1849 | 38 |
| Puzzle-within-a-puzzle | 22 |
| Puzzlebook features | 19 |
| Puzzlebook section | 18 |
| Puzzled | 7 |
| Puzzled (out) | 13 |
| Puzzled comments | 16 |
| Puzzled interjections | 21 |
| Puzzled ones like you | 21 |
| Puzzled question | 16 |
| Puzzled reactions | 17 |
| Puzzled response | 16 |
| Puzzled utterances | 18 |
| Puzzled, after "at" | 29 |
| Puzzlemaker Caleb | 17 |
| Puzzlemaker Caleb Madison, collegially | 38 |
| Puzzlemaker Kevin | 17 |
| Puzzlemaker Pahk | 16 |
| Puzzlemaker Rubik | 17 |
| Puzzlemaker's beginning | 27 |
| Puzzlemaker's steak order? | 30 |
| Puzzlemaking legend ___ Loyd | 28 |
| Puzzlement | 10 |
| Puzzlement ... or a hint to getting the 10 words on the perimeter of this puzzle | 80 |
| Puzzler | 7 |
| Puzzler Rubik | 13 |
| Puzzler Trip | 12 |
| Puzzler's alert: the clues in this crossword are all in this | 64 |
| Puzzler's bird | 18 |
| Puzzler's compound | 22 |
| Puzzler's dir. | 18 |
| Puzzler's favorite Adams | 28 |
| Puzzler's favorite Anglo-Saxon | 34 |
| Puzzler's favorite Italian family | 37 |
| Puzzler's favorite Muse | 27 |
| Puzzler's favorite ox | 25 |
| Puzzler's favorite plant | 28 |
| Puzzler's favorite pooch | 28 |
| Puzzler's favorite serf | 27 |
| Puzzler's lake | 18 |
| Puzzler's necessity | 23 |
| Puzzler's ox | 16 |
| Puzzler's pet eagle | 23 |
| Puzzler's pet toiler | 24 |
| Puzzler's plum | 18 |