| 100% | TULIPS | 6 | Answer to the joke "What flowers grow on your face?" |
| 53% | TULIP | 5 | "What kind of flower grows on your face? A ___!" |
| 44% | UCLA | 4 | Answer to the joke “What happens when the smog clears over Hollywood?” |
| 44% | ATREE | 5 | Answer to the joke: "What has lots of bark, but no bite?" |
| 44% | DAM | 3 | Answer to the joke "What did the beaver say after stubbing its toe?" |
| 43% | DAM | 3 | Answer to the joke "What did the fish say when it swam into the wall?" |
| 43% | DAM | 3 | Answer to the joke "What did the fish say when it swam into a wall?" |
| 42% | DAM | 3 | Answer to the joke “What did the fish say when it swam into the concrete wall?” |
| 40% | HAND | 4 | What points to the hour or minute on a clock face |
| 40% | SCRAMBLES | 9 | What all the answers on this puzzle's 37-Across are to each other |
| 39% | JAZZHANDS | 9 | One answer to the question "What's your favorite music genre," literally? |
| 39% | OHIO | 4 | Answer to the old riddle "What's round on the sides and high in the middle?" |
| 39% | OHIO | 4 | Answer to the old riddle "What's round on the ends and high in the middle?" |
| 39% | DNA | 3 | What might reveal the answer to "Who's your daddy?" |
| 38% | ONTOPOFTHEWORLD | 15 | Answer to the joke, "How did the climber feel after summiting Mount Everest?" |
| 38% | MADETHEROUNDS | 13 | Checked on patients, or what the subjects of all of the starred clues did to their answers |
| 37% | ONE | 3 | Answer to the joke "How many dull people does it take to change a lightbulb?" |
| 37% | CHOPPEDLIVER | 12 | What's found on some canapés (and hiding in the answers to 20-, 31-, 38- and 49-Across?) |
| 37% | ENTER | 5 | Answer to a knock on the door |
| 37% | SIDEBURNS | 9 | Strips of hair grown on both sides of the face |
| 37% | FINAL | 5 | "Is that your ___ answer?", catchphrase used by Regis Philbin on the reality show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" |
| 36% | BYEBYEBIRDIE | 12 | Musical with the song "Put On a Happy Face," and a hint to making four answers match their starred clues |
| 36% | UCLA | 4 | School that's the answer to the joke "What happens when the fog lifts in SoCal?" |
| 36% | LSAT | 4 | Stop on your way to the bar? |
| 36% | ASHIP | 5 | Answer to the riddle “I have one bow but no arrows. What am I?” |
| 36% | TIME | 4 | What's seen on a clock ... and an invisible ingredient for farmers to grow the crops you see in the puzzle |
| 36% | MAKEAUTURN | 10 | Change direction on the road 180 degrees ... and what you must literally do in each starred clue to understand its answer |
| 35% | TELLY | 5 | What to watch the BBC on |
| 35% | TELLY | 5 | What to view the Beeb on |
| 35% | TELLY | 5 | What to watch the Beeb on |