| 100% | TAKEAHIKE | 9 | "Get outta here!" ... and an impossible ask re: 17-, 20-, 52-, and 56-Across |
| 35% | MAGAZINEREADERS | 15 | What 17-, 20-, 56- and 60-Across are? |
| 32% | MEET | 4 | Before "the" and 56 Across, an MLB fight song |
| 31% | ONTHECLOCK | 10 | Getting paid for work, and what an element of 17-, 23-, 38-, and 49-Across may be |
| 31% | STATECAPITALS | 13 | They're hidden in 17-, 25-, 52- and 61-Across |
| 31% | AUTOMOBILES | 11 | They're hidden in 17-, 25-, 52- and 61-Across |
| 30% | TREE | 4 | “Make like a ___ and get outta here” (bungled idiom in “Back to the Future”) |
| 30% | THINKTANKS | 10 | Bodies of advisory experts … or, when reinterpreted as an imperative, a hint to 17-, 24-, 38- and 52-Across |
| 29% | BIRDSOFAFEATHER | 15 | Clues for 20-, 39- and 56-Across? |
| 29% | PITS | 4 | What 20-, 41-, and 56-Across all have |
| 29% | TRIPLES | 7 | 20-, 26-, 46- and 56-Across, homophonically speaking |
| 29% | SLAPSTICKCOMEDY | 15 | Genre of 17- and 56-Across |
| 28% | PASSINGCOMMENTS | 15 | Offhand remarks, and an apt description of 17-, 23-, 35- and 53-Across |
| 28% | NOMDEPLUME | 10 | Literary alias, and an apt description of 17-, 23-, 36- and 49-Across |
| 28% | LITERARYCIRCLES | 15 | What 20-, 39- and 56-Across might travel in |
| 28% | SHESAWOMAN | 10 | 1964 Beatles song, and an apt clue for 17-, 23-, 36- and 46-Across |
| 28% | SCAT | 4 | Get outta here! |
| 28% | COMETOTERMS | 11 | Reach an agreement ... and what the first words of 17, 32, and 45 Across are? |
| 28% | SCRAM | 5 | Get outta here! (inf) |
| 27% | STAYWITHUS | 10 | With 36- and 56-Across, an announcer's plea |
| 27% | INCIDENTALMUSIC | 15 | Score that sets the mood, and an apt description of 17-, 25-, 50-, and 62-Across? |
| 27% | CANDYCOATED | 11 | Like M&M's, and an apt description of 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 27% | TOUCH | 5 | With 28 Across, get offline ... and what 13 and 20 Across do? |
| 27% | REUNION | 7 | Celebration that may involve the people in 20-, 42- and 56-Across |
| 27% | SOUNDSRIGHT | 11 | "That tracks," and an apt description of 17-, 27-, and 43-Across? |
| 27% | ADEAL | 5 | "What ___!" (possible response to 20-, 29-, 46- and 56-Across) |
| 27% | THEISSUES | 9 | What 17-, 20-, 37- and 54-Across flip-flop on? |
| 27% | MIXEDNUTS | 9 | What 17-, 26-, 38-, and 52-Across contain |
| 27% | COMEDYCENTRAL | 13 | Popular cable network ... or a hint to 17-, 24-, 47- and 56-Across |
| 27% | ILIAD | 5 | Work hinted at by the starts of 17-, 26-, 42- and 56-Across |