| 100% | IMA | 3 | "___ drunkard" (Rick's response to what his occupation is in Casablanca) |
| 43% | CON | 3 | What Utah's Rick Koerber was found guilty of running in 2018 with his property investment business |
| 40% | CLEANUP | 7 | Response to 40-Across ... or what can be done to 12 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 38% | GINJOINT | 8 | Rick's Cafe Americain in Casablanca is an example |
| 38% | ROFL | 4 | Response to being slain, in texts? |
| 37% | SONINLAW | 8 | What a husband is to his spouse's parents |
| 37% | TWOCENTS | 8 | In the US, what one's opinion is said to be worth |
| 36% | PLACEPLACEAT | 12 | What it's impossible to be in |
| 36% | OBEY | 4 | What a well-trained dog will do in response to its owner's commands |
| 35% | GRANDFATHER | 11 | What 18-Across is, to the other protagonist, Morty Smith, in "Rick and Morty" |
| 35% | WORKAROUNDS | 11 | Ways to sidestep obstacles, and what are found in this puzzle's circles |
| 35% | PLEA | 4 | What a defendant enters in response to a judge's question |
| 35% | TAILINGOFF | 10 | Waning ... or a hint to what is found by circling all the T's in the completed puzzle |
| 35% | EXILE | 5 | What many are forced to live in |
| 35% | ANTE | 4 | What's required to be "in" |
| 35% | NATURE | 6 | It's "loved by what is best in us," according to Emerson |
| 34% | SON | 3 | What a male child is to his parents |
| 34% | AWE | 3 | What visitors to Niagara Falls are often in |
| 34% | PRO | 3 | What 18a was, in his respective field |
| 34% | WELCOME | 7 | "___ to the Jungle," 1987 song whose riff by Slash was composed in his mom's basement |
| 34% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 34% | FORTYNINERS | 11 | Old rush participants ... or a three-part hint to what can be found in this puzzle's grid or clues |
| 34% | ONEMIND | 7 | What those in agreement are said to be of |
| 34% | COST | 4 | What something will amount to, in terms of money |
| 34% | AGITATE | 7 | What "singer" in seat next to you will do |
| 34% | MADAM | 5 | What Ethel Merman wanted to be called in 1950 |
| 34% | SCARY | 5 | What the monsters in "Monsters, Inc." want to be |
| 34% | CAMO | 4 | What you don't want to be spotted in |
| 34% | NEMO | 4 | Disney's clownfish who is lost in the ocean and trying to reunite with his father |
| 34% | CLEARTHETABLE | 13 | What people are likely to do in response to 20-, 27- and 44-Across? |