| 100% | BOIL | 4 | "Fillet of a fenny snake / In the cauldron __ and bake": "Macbeth" |
| 43% | ICECREAM | 8 | It's in the middle of a baked Alaska |
| 42% | CASSINI | 7 | Gap in the ring system of Saturn and also a probe |
| 42% | HALIFAX | 7 | A town in England and the capital of Nova Scotia |
| 42% | BASQUE | 6 | Member of a people living in the W Pyrenees in France and Spain |
| 42% | BASQUE | 6 | Member of a people living in the western Pyrenees in France and Spain |
| 41% | MASH | 4 | Acronym in the names of a children's game and a classic TV show |
| 41% | LAPP | 4 | Member of a nomadic people living chiefly in north Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula |
| 41% | LAPP | 4 | Member of a nomadic people living chiefly in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula |
| 41% | LAPP | 4 | Member of a nomadic people living chiefly in N Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula |
| 41% | LAS | 3 | In Deck the Halls, you sing a lot of Fas and these |
| 41% | HARPER | 6 | Surname of the brothers in Two and a Half Men |
| 41% | HOCK | 4 | Joint in the hind leg of a horse between the gaskin and the cannon bone |
| 41% | NEWWORLDORDER | 13 | Shake-up in the global balance of power ... and a hint to the circled letters |
| 41% | XXXXXXXXXXXX | 12 | Moves in the shape of A's, O's and U's at a disco? |
| 41% | ONETWOTHREEFOUR | 15 | Start of a count ... or the letter frequencies in 17-, 30-, 46- and 64-Across |
| 40% | POLESAPART | 10 | In complete opposition ... and a feature of the four other longest answers |
| 40% | JOHNADAMS | 9 | Composer of the operas A Flowering Tree and Nixon in China |
| 40% | GUAYULE | 7 | Bushy shrub in the aster family of Mexico and the southwestern US; a source of latex |
| 40% | ARAPAHO | 7 | Member of a Native American people of the Plains now living chiefly in Oklahoma and Wyoming |
| 40% | WILLYOUPLEASE | 13 | Start of a run-together exchange between Clifton Webb and Dana Andrews in the film Laura |
| 40% | ADAMS | 5 | John —, composer of the operas A Flowering Tree and Nixon in China |
| 40% | CARA | 4 | ___ Delevingne, who starred in the 2017 space opera film "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" |
| 39% | BEDHEAD | 7 | Messy hair in the morning, and a hint to the tops of the theme answers |
| 39% | NEWT | 4 | "Eye of ___ and toe of frog ... " (cauldron ingredients for the Witches in "Macbeth") |
| 39% | UNITE | 5 | — the Union, organisation formed in 2007 from a merger of Amicus and the TGWU |
| 39% | DIAGONALPARKING | 15 | Easy way of pulling in ... and a hint to the six circled words |
| 39% | WRAPSUP | 7 | Finishes, and a hint to the sets of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 39% | SAND | 4 | Makeup of the pit used in a long jump track and field event |
| 39% | TARBABY | 7 | 1981 novel about the interplay of privilege and poverty in a Caribbean romance |