| 100% | DAILY | 5 | *With 63-Across, a diner list |
| 80% | PEAR | 4 | With 63 Across, ''partridge in a'' place |
| 72% | WETHEPEOPLEOF | 13 | With 63-Across, a patriotic opening |
| 65% | ANDMILESTOGO | 12 | With 63-Across, ending lines of a poem by 72-Across |
| 64% | THENOBLESTARTISTHATOF | 21 | With 63 Across, Barnum proverb |
| 63% | KNIFE | 5 | With 63 Across, bag for chefs |
| 63% | SILENT | 6 | With 63 Across, source of quote |
| 63% | TOTHEBESTOF | 11 | With 63 Across, ''Not quite sure'' |
| 62% | ACME | 4 | With 63 Across, Wile E. Coyote purchase |
| 62% | MAKELIKEA | 9 | With 63- and 65-Across, go away as a soda jerk might? |
| 61% | SIDE | 4 | Line on a diner menu list |
| 60% | CAPTAIN | 7 | With 63-Across, superhero with "wedgie power" ... and a description of 20-, 36-, or 54-Across |
| 60% | THE | 3 | With 63- and 64-Across, privileged info, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 59% | YOUMUSTBE | 9 | With 39- and 63-Across, a divorce lawyer's guarantee? |
| 59% | ITSRAINING | 10 | With 63-Across, the opening lines to a nursery rhyme suggested by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 59% | IMPULSE | 7 | With 63-Across, Freudian concept of resisting temptation ... or a hint to four squares in this puzzle |
| 58% | SONG | 4 | With 63-Across, "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" movie |
| 58% | LADIES | 6 | With 63-Across, what some performers saw in Las Vegas? ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 58% | DONA | 4 | With 63-Down, a New Mexico county |
| 58% | STE | 3 | Fr. woman with a 63-Across |
| 58% | EYE | 3 | Body part with a 63-Across |
| 58% | BUT | 3 | With 75 Across, a gas |
| 57% | BARBERSHOP | 10 | With 63-Across, singing group ... or a hint to the ends of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 57% | TUNA | 4 | With 40 Across, diner orders |
| 57% | EBONY | 5 | Magazine with a Power 100 list |
| 57% | LIME | 4 | With 56 Across, a summer cooler |
| 57% | KEY | 3 | With 52 Across, a Florida attraction |
| 57% | RON | 3 | With 136 Across, a rum brand |
| 57% | YES | 3 | With 89 Across, a confident assent |
| 57% | ONE | 3 | With 41 Across, a vitamin brand |