| 100% | REDEEM | 6 | 15 Across (with its words switched) |
| 50% | GEYSER | 6 | 15-Across song with the lyric "Feel it bubbling from below" |
| 50% | SIC | 3 | Word with a 35-Across before and after it |
| 47% | NAKEDEYE | 8 | You see with it (2 words) |
| 47% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 47% | EATEN | 5 | With 15 Across, depleted |
| 46% | ETTU | 4 | Words associated with 53 Across |
| 46% | MERRY | 5 | With 15 Across, holiday greeting |
| 46% | JACK | 4 | With 15 Across, big prize |
| 46% | EYE | 3 | With 5-Across, word that looks like it would sound similarly but doesn't |
| 45% | ETCH | 4 | Word with ''eat'' in its etymology |
| 45% | ROAST | 5 | With 15 Across, slow-cooked supper |
| 45% | ADIOS | 5 | With 15 or 28 Across, oater farewell |
| 45% | EXIT | 4 | With 15 Across, graduation requirement for some |
| 45% | SCRABBLE | 8 | Words With Friends is based on it |
| 44% | GEESE | 5 | With 50-Across, it's represented by 15 squares in an appropriate arrangement in this puzzle |
| 44% | FOILMETHOD | 10 | Technique used to multiply (x+4)(x-5), with the first words of 17-, 25-, 36-, and 44 Across making up its mnemonic |
| 44% | TOTHEBACK | 9 | With 65 Across, ''Move it!'' |
| 44% | JUNIPER | 7 | With 42 Across, they give gin its flavor |
| 44% | GUILLERMO | 9 | With 15 Across, scandal-ridden president of Ecuador |
| 44% | HARE | 4 | Word in many cartoon titles with 119 Across |
| 43% | TURNBACK | 8 | With 65 Across, return to the way it was |
| 43% | IPSO | 4 | With 39 Across, by its very nature |
| 43% | HAS | 3 | Possessive word used with he, she, it |
| 42% | IRONY | 5 | 15-Across with a twist |
| 42% | PROUDMARY | 9 | Action film starring 15-Across and 45-Across that shares its name with a Tina Turner song (2 wds.) |
| 42% | LUCK | 4 | With 15 Across, party you might bring a dish to |
| 42% | MOCK | 4 | Word used with 13a to mean a simulation of it |
| 42% | NAME | 4 | Word sometimes used with its plural |
| 41% | ANO | 3 | 15-Across starts it |