| 100% | SHY | 3 | ___ Carter, co-writer of "Speak To A Girl" by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw |
| 51% | LETSMAKELOVE | 12 | Duet by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, released in 2000, that won the couple a Grammy for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: 3 wds. |
| 37% | TIM | 3 | "Speak to a Girl" singer McGraw |
| 33% | BETTYGRABLE | 11 | Co-star of Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall in "How to Marry a Millionaire" |
| 33% | PAIL | 4 | "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a ___ of water" |
| 32% | GOODBYE | 7 | 1998 song by the girl group Spice Girls, and maybe the end of a conversation |
| 31% | NEED | 4 | "I ___ You," romantic country song by musical couple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill |
| 31% | ITSRAININGMEN | 13 | Camp classic by the Weather Girls ... or a homophonic hint to 3-, 8-, 26- and 31-Down |
| 31% | CODEWORDS | 9 | Lexicon used by spies, and a key to the ends of the starred answers |
| 31% | BYSSHESHELLEY | 13 | Romantic poet Percy, the writer of classic poems such as "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind" and "To a Skylark": 2 wds. |
| 31% | WOOLF | 5 | Writer of the line “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” |
| 31% | PEN | 3 | Set of literary awards sponsored by a worldwide association of writers co-founded by Catherine Amy Dawson Scott |
| 30% | OPHELIA | 7 | Noblewoman played by Helena Bonham Carter, Kate Winslet, and Daisy Ridley in film versions of a Shakespeare play |
| 30% | SAAR | 4 | Area governed by the League of Nations for 15 years and returned to Germany in a 1935 plebiscite |
| 30% | FACERECOGNITION | 15 | Technology used by smartphones nowadays ... or a hint to the ends of 16-, 24-, 44- and 57-Across |
| 30% | GUYSWITHKIDS | 12 | A TV series co-created and written by Jimmy Fallon, chronicling the lives of three friends and their children: 3 wds. |
| 30% | THEFORCE | 8 | "A mixture of what appears to be ESP and early Christian faith," per a 1977 New York Times film review |
| 30% | KISSED | 6 | Katy Perry did this to a girl and enjoyed herself |
| 30% | STYLE | 5 | Taylor Swift song in which she refers to herself having "that good girl faith and a tight little skirt" |
| 30% | SHONDARHIMES | 12 | Grey's Anatomy writer and producer ... and a punny description of the starts to 20-, 28-, and 43-Across |
| 30% | INTERSTELLAR | 12 | 2014 film starring Matthew McConaughey, and co-written by Christopher Nolan, about a group of astronauts and a wormhole |
| 30% | SEEYOUAGAIN | 11 | 2015 song by rapper Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, and maybe part of a response to 24a: 3 wds. |
| 30% | WORDOFMOUTH | 11 | What rumors are spread by … or a hint to the ends of 16-, 29-, 35-/37- and 45-Across |
| 30% | ANDREADWORKIN | 13 | “Intercourse” writer who envisioned a “road to freedom open to women, men, and that emerging majority, the rest of us” |
| 30% | STEADMAN | 8 | Writer of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, A.F. __ |
| 29% | AKIN | 4 | Of a feather, so to speak |
| 29% | RUNAWAYWITHME | 13 | 2015 song by Carly Rae Jepsen which is a part of the album "Emotion" and is co-produced by Shellback: 4 wds. |
| 29% | WANNABET | 8 | "Care to wager?" ... and a question answered, one way or the other, by the first words of the answers to starred clues |
| 29% | HARLANCOBEN | 11 | Mystery writer who signed a five-year deal with Netflix to develop 14 of his novels as miniseries and films (2 wds.) |