| 100% | BATTERS | 7 | "What do pancakes and baseball teams have in common? They both need good ___" |
| 36% | NOTASTE | 7 | What bad dressers and bland food have in common |
| 36% | EYE | 3 | What a potato and a needle have in common |
| 36% | VERBIAGE | 8 | What purple prose and technical jargon have in common |
| 36% | SCORING | 7 | What film composers and soccer strikers have in common |
| 35% | DOT | 3 | What "i" and "j" have in common |
| 35% | SON | 3 | What "Hudson" and "Madison" have in common? |
| 35% | LINKS | 5 | What do websites, sausages and golf courses all have in common? |
| 35% | BANKS | 5 | What do rivers, airplanes and Wall Street all have in common? |
| 33% | TOPSTORIES | 10 | "What's in your attic? And do penthouses have better resale value? Find out in today's ___" |
| 33% | TEETH | 5 | What humans and saws have in common |
| 33% | VOWELOFSILENCE | 14 | What people and leopards have in common? |
| 33% | KEN | 3 | What Kendall and Kenneth have in common? |
| 33% | GREET | 5 | What good hosts do to guests when they come in |
| 33% | SCURRY | 6 | What chicks and ducks and geese better do, in song |
| 33% | CLOSESTHEDEAL | 13 | Has successful negotiations, and, in a way, what this puzzle does |
| 32% | PLAYS | 5 | What Shakespeare and football teams both have |
| 32% | EYE | 3 | What a needle and potato have in common |
| 32% | GAS | 3 | What the sun and Sunoco have in common |
| 32% | DIAERESES | 9 | What Anne Brontë and Anaïs Nin have in common |
| 31% | SLID | 4 | What Elizabeth Warren's poll numbers appear to have done in December and January |
| 31% | STARS | 5 | What Broadway and the Milky Way have in common |
| 30% | BALDNESS | 8 | What Mr. Clean, Captain Picard and Michael Jordan have in common |
| 30% | UNITED | 6 | What the U.S. and U.K. have in common? |
| 30% | LAW | 3 | What both Barack and Michelle Obama have degrees in |
| 30% | MAKEADENT | 9 | Scratch the surface, and what both words in 17-, 26-, 55- and 65-Across literally do |
| 30% | BEARDS | 6 | Lincoln and Grant had them in common |
| 30% | HAND | 4 | "Raise your ___," what students might be instructed to do in school if they have a question |
| 30% | THEYMIGHTCRASH | 14 | What 20-, 34- and 41-Across have in common |
| 29% | HEADLINES | 9 | Newspaper's attention-getters, and what both words in 17-, 25-, 38- and 54-Across can do |