| 100% | TROP | 4 | 74-Across' stadium, casually, with "The" |
| 57% | CORED | 5 | With the 1 Across removed |
| 54% | CALI | 4 | State with the largest population, casually |
| 54% | READING | 7 | Berkshire town with the Madejski Stadium |
| 54% | ETTU | 4 | Phrase associated with the 18 Across |
| 53% | MYSTERIOUS | 10 | With 19 Across, the Orient |
| 53% | SECRET | 6 | With 74-Across, voting system that affords anonymity ... or the theme of this puzzle? |
| 52% | NEA | 3 | Organization with the "Read Across America" day: Abbr. |
| 52% | ASTRODOME | 9 | Stadium with the first animated scoreboard |
| 52% | MOELARRY | 8 | With 46 Across, the Three Stooges |
| 52% | CUT | 3 | With the circled letters, a hint to solving seven Across clues |
| 51% | DEL | 3 | With 100 Across, Spanish ''of the sun'' |
| 51% | PATTI | 5 | With 14 Across, "Because the Night" singer |
| 51% | KODAK | 5 | With 59 Across, the slogan's subject |
| 50% | TIC | 3 | With 50 and 55 Across, the ''central'' theme |
| 50% | ONEOFTHOSE | 10 | With 29 Across, what the meditating mechanic had? |
| 50% | ROCKIN | 6 | With 16 Across, "___ the Christmas Tree" (Brenda Lee) |
| 50% | HALFLIFE | 8 | With 54 Across, the Atomic Cafe cereal combo? |
| 50% | UPPERLEFTTO | 11 | With 60 Across, the message's slanted place |
| 50% | OTIS | 4 | With 72 Across, the King of Elevator Music? |
| 50% | CHAIN | 5 | Store with locations across the country |
| 49% | OPTIMIST | 8 | One who identifies with the answers to the starred Across clues |
| 49% | CLIPPED | 7 | With 42 Across, prepared to save at the grocery |
| 49% | TOMORROWISALONG | 15 | With 69 Across, Bob Dylan song about the future |
| 49% | CHIEFJUSTICE | 12 | With 39 and 44 Across, the most major magistrate |
| 49% | PROGAMER | 8 | One with all the right moves, casually? |
| 48% | BHUT | 4 | With 18 Across, plant also known as the ghost pepper |
| 48% | WHATATIME | 9 | With 16 Across, exclamation from one living in the moment |
| 48% | THEFIRSTTIMEEVERI | 17 | With 127 Across, the best-selling hat song of 1972? |
| 48% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |