| 100% | MEAN | 4 | *Far from friendly ... or a word made by changing one letter of 32a |
| 73% | HEAT | 4 | *Furnace output ... or a word made by changing one letter of 36a |
| 72% | MEAT | 4 | *Vegetarian's no-no ... or a word made by changing one letter of 34a |
| 72% | DEAL | 4 | *Pass out the cards ... or a word made by changing one letter of 25a |
| 67% | HEAD | 4 | *Top of the body ... or a word made by changing one letter of 19a |
| 64% | DEAD | 4 | *Out of juice, as a phone ... or a word made by changing one letter of 23a |
| 63% | MEAL | 4 | *Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, e.g. ... or a word made by changing one letter of 27a |
| 40% | AERIE | 5 | Nest spelled by changing one letter of "eerie" |
| 39% | ANAGRAM | 7 | A word made by rearranging other word's letters |
| 36% | EMCEE | 5 | Word shortened from a three-word phrase that can be further shortened by dropping its first, fourth and fifth letters |
| 36% | ANAGRAM | 7 | Word made from the letters of another |
| 35% | ACRONYM | 7 | Word formed by the first letters of a series of words |
| 34% | CBS | 3 | Network that had a logo of a spotlight illuminating letters, but changed in '51 to one inspired by a Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign |
| 34% | REWRITE | 7 | Change the wording of a book or speech |
| 34% | DEERSKIN | 8 | Made from the hide of a doe or stag |
| 34% | QUEUE | 5 | Waiting line at the DMV... or a word that sounds like the first letter of 25a |
| 34% | ANAGRAM | 7 | A word or phrase that can be formed using the letters of another word |
| 32% | THU | 3 | Abbr. for a word also with abbrs. by its first four or first five letters |
| 32% | MINOR | 5 | Underage one ... or a word that means "area of academic focus" |
| 31% | MUD | 3 | Kind of pie, or change a letter in 18d to get the answer |
| 31% | WORD | 4 | Part of a sentence, or change a letter in 22a to get the answer |
| 30% | SEEMEAFTERCLASS | 15 | Ominous request from a teacher ... or a hint to the first words (and following letters!) of 17-, 26- and 43-Across |
| 30% | ITSONTHEHOUSE | 13 | Words from a friendly bartender, and a description of the ends of 17-, 25-, 51- and 59-Across |
| 30% | RELOCATIONS | 11 | Changes made to the answers to 16-, 24-, 33- and 47-Across, whether interpreted as one word or two? |
| 30% | ELLIPSIS | 8 | The omission of words from a text, shown by dots |
| 30% | CAPSULE | 7 | Tube-shaped medicine form, or word after "time" for a buried box of items from the past |
| 30% | MONITORY | 8 | Letter of admonishment from a bishop |
| 30% | DEAR | 4 | *Letter opener ... or a term of endearment for one's partner |
| 29% | BRADS | 5 | Fasteners ... or, if you change the fourth letter to an S, what the fasteners might be made of |
| 29% | BOTTOMLINE | 10 | Upshot, so to speak . . . or something missing from a capital letter in four of this puzzle’s clues? |