| 100% | COMPANIONFORMAKETTLE | 20 | Add a letter to 23-Across to get ... |
| 83% | SCORETHATBEATSABOGEY | 20 | Add a letter to 37-Across to get ... |
| 83% | ABSOLUTIONFROMPENALTY | 21 | Add a letter to 90-Across to get ... |
| 83% | GAMESHOWANNOUNCERDON | 20 | Add a letter to 73-Across to get ... |
| 83% | BUDDYINWESTERNMOVIES | 20 | Add a letter to 53-Across to get ... |
| 64% | CLIOORERATO | 11 | Change a letter in 23-Across to spell... |
| 60% | ABLE | 4 | Add a B to 48-Across, and you'll be ___ to get this word! |
| 53% | BOOT | 4 | Change a letter to get the body part it goes on |
| 52% | SPINCYCLE | 9 | Washer action ... or a hint to four consecutive letters inside 18-, 23-, 38- and 49-Across |
| 51% | SHIN | 4 | Letter on a dreidel that requires the player to add a piece to the pot |
| 51% | FROGGER | 7 | 1981 game to get an amphibian across a street |
| 51% | INSERT | 6 | Add to text, as a missing letter |
| 50% | OPOSSUM | 7 | Add an O to an Aussie marsupial to get a US one |
| 50% | THEOTHERAMERICA | 15 | Read the first letter in each clue to get a quote from this '67 speech |
| 50% | CUT | 3 | With the circled letters, a hint to solving seven Across clues |
| 49% | MOM | 3 | 23-Across, to a lamb |
| 49% | CORD | 4 | Telephone wire, or change a letter in 14a to get the answer |
| 49% | MUM | 3 | Close-mouthed, or change a letter in 27d to get the answer |
| 49% | MAD | 3 | Extremely upset, or change a letter in 6d to get the answer |
| 49% | SUFFIX | 6 | Letters added to a word's end, opposite of prefix |
| 49% | STEM | 4 | What a prefix or suffix gets added to |
| 48% | COMMANDTOADOGSLEDTEAM | 21 | Change a letter in 1-Across to spell... |
| 48% | GORE | 4 | Change a letter in 110-Across to spell... |
| 48% | WHATOLIVERTWISTWANTED | 21 | Change a letter in 85-Across to spell... |
| 48% | DOUBLEAGENT | 11 | Change a letter in 63-Across to spell... |
| 48% | STUBBORNBEAST | 13 | Change a letter in 46-Across to spell... |
| 48% | MUD | 3 | Kind of pie, or change a letter in 18d to get the answer |
| 48% | WARM | 4 | Like some welcomes, or change a letter in 39a to get the answer |
| 47% | WORD | 4 | Part of a sentence, or change a letter in 22a to get the answer |
| 47% | SPA | 3 | Place to get a 47-Across |