| 100% | THE | 3 | ___ Carpenters, soft-rock duo whose fame peaked post their track "(They Long to Be) Close to You" |
| 56% | CAPTAIN | 7 | ___ and Tennille, pop-rock duo whose fame peaked post their track "Do That to Me One More Time" |
| 54% | CHER | 4 | Sonny and ___, pop-rock duo whose fame peaked post their "I Got You Babe" track |
| 52% | IKE | 3 | ___ and Tina Turner, soul-rock duo whose fame peaked post their track "You Should've Treated Me Right" |
| 50% | HALL | 4 | ___ and Oates, pop-rock duo whose fame peaked post their track "Rich Girl" |
| 49% | JIM | 3 | Kenny Loggins and ___ Messina, pop-rock duo whose fame peaked post their track "Danny's Song" |
| 49% | SIMON | 5 | ___ and Garfunkel, folk-rock duo whose fame peaked post their "Mrs. Robinson" track |
| 37% | STEELYDAN | 9 | Soft rock duo whose "Countdown to Ecstasy" album was released in 1973 (2 wds.) |
| 31% | THECARPENTERS | 13 | Music group with siblings as members with hit songs like "(They Long to Be) Close to You" and "We've Only Just Begun": 2 wds. |
| 27% | DEARONES | 8 | They're close to you |
| 27% | FILLINGUPWITHGAS | 16 | Pre-road trip detail ... and a hint to what certain parts of three long answers were doing as you solved them |
| 27% | HOTELBARS | 9 | They may be close to reception |
| 25% | NEAP | 4 | Tide whose high is close to its low |
| 25% | APE | 3 | Animal whose genetic structure is close to humans' |
| 25% | LOANS | 5 | They may be a credit to you |
| 25% | BIGTEETH | 8 | They are better to eat you with |
| 25% | PUTT | 4 | Soft golf shot for when the ball is close to the hole |
| 25% | APE | 3 | Animal whose genetic structure is close to a human's |
| 24% | DACHSHUNDS | 10 | They have their ears close to the ground |
| 24% | OMENS | 5 | They may be trying to tell you something |
| 24% | HOPES | 5 | You don't want them to be dashed |
| 24% | CHUCKBERRY | 10 | One of the original Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, whose name is a hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| 24% | TROOPERS | 8 | You don't want to be on their radar |
| 24% | OREO | 4 | Cookie whose Double Stuf variety is closer to 1.86-times Stu |
| 24% | PLUTOCRAT | 9 | Someone whose power is due to their wealth |
| 23% | TALC | 4 | Rock that's soft enough to be scratched by a fingernail |
| 23% | ODDS | 4 | They may be long at the track |
| 23% | CORONAS | 7 | The "Gran" variety of these can be over 9 inches long, but then you have to slice off the end to use them |
| 23% | NAMASTE | 7 | Greeting whose literal Sanskrit meaning is “I bow to you” |
| 23% | WAITTIME | 8 | Measure of how long you’ll have to be patient |