| 100% | TORTURED | 8 | "___ with history" (like the Mississippi, to Hart Crane) |
| 47% | ASOCIAL | 7 | Like one who's not inclined to mingle with the crowd |
| 47% | MIGHTY | 6 | Like the Mississippi |
| 46% | MEDIA | 5 | Platforms like the press, TV, radio, and print which Barbie uses to communicate with fans, say |
| 45% | FLOW | 4 | Move like the Mississippi |
| 45% | TINT | 4 | Color, like you might want to do with the title's last word |
| 44% | THREE | 5 | With 7-Across, like the Godhead, to some believers |
| 44% | RHYMING | 7 | Like 17-, 26-, 40-, 51- and 64-Across, with respect to the numbers in their clues |
| 43% | YOUNG | 5 | With 68-Across, still feeling like a teenager, say ... or a hint to the answers with shading |
| 43% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 43% | TALLAHATCHIE | 12 | River rising in Mississippi, US, that converges with the Yalobusha at Greenwood to form the Yazoo |
| 42% | AFOOT | 5 | Like the game, to Sherlock |
| 42% | TENDER | 6 | Like the night, to Keats |
| 42% | SACRED | 6 | Like the Ganges, to Hindus |
| 42% | BLAU | 4 | Like the Danube, to Germans |
| 42% | REEKS | 5 | Smells like my son was trying to make wolverine attractant with his chemistry set in the basement |
| 42% | TAICHI | 6 | Discipline with postures like White Crane Spreads Its Wings and Grasp the Sparrow's Tail |
| 42% | EARLY | 5 | Like the bird with the worm |
| 42% | FLAT | 4 | Like the world, to the ancients |
| 42% | EASTERNMOST | 11 | Like the aleutians to the us |
| 42% | FLAT | 4 | Like the world to pre-Columbians |
| 42% | DOWN | 4 | Like the answer to this clue |
| 42% | ACR | 3 | Like the ans. to this clue |
| 42% | ODDSON | 6 | Like the horse favored to win |
| 41% | JUMP | 4 | Word with "time" to indicate the plot for time travel movies like "Back to the Future" and "Interstellar" |
| 41% | LUCKY | 5 | Like the number 8, to the Chinese |
| 41% | SASSY | 5 | Like the response "Talk to the hand!" |
| 41% | DRIVEN | 6 | Like the answers to the starred clues |
| 41% | ELDEST | 6 | Like the heir to the throne, usually |
| 41% | GREEK | 5 | Like the alphabet with alpha and beta |