| 100% | BTEN | 4 | Apt bingo call to lose on, by the sound of it? |
| 46% | ESHARP | 6 | F, by the sound of it |
| 46% | OVERSEES | 8 | Supervises, abroad by the sounds of it? |
| 45% | LAUD | 4 | Praise a peer, by the sound of it |
| 45% | SLOE | 4 | No fast food, by the sound of it |
| 41% | TEA | 3 | Drink of character, by the sound of it |
| 41% | DAYS | 4 | Time of confusion, by the sound of it |
| 38% | BROKEN | 6 | With 49-Across, it keeps repeating itself ... and, based on the first and last letters, an apt description of each answer to a starred clue |
| 37% | JEEP | 4 | Company asked by the Cherokee Nation to change one of its car names |
| 37% | MANDALAY | 8 | Former capital of Burma, on the road to it perhaps |
| 36% | DAVEPELZER | 10 | Author of memoirs A Child Called It and The Lost Boy |
| 35% | DOREMI | 6 | Song sung by the Sound of Music children |
| 35% | CHARLESTON | 10 | The Capital of the only US state to have its sovereignty proclaimed by a president |
| 35% | PINTA | 5 | The —, one of three ships commanded by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to America |
| 35% | KIM | 3 | First name of the lawyer played by Rhea Seehorn on "Better Call Saul" |
| 35% | TWO | 3 | Number of times lightning struck Apollo 12 on its way to the moon |
| 35% | RECHARGE | 8 | To boost the battery of a device by plugging it in |
| 35% | TUBA | 4 | Horn heard as part of the losing sound effect on "The Price Is Right" |
| 35% | AGE | 3 | It may be represented by the number of candles on a cake |
| 35% | WHOVILLE | 8 | Town targeted by the Grinch, and an apt description of the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 35% | ACNES | 5 | Complaints that might be brought on by clogged follicles but the majority of the time, it's your genes |
| 34% | OLM | 3 | Aquatic, cave-dwelling salamander of Europe, sometimes called the "human fish" due to its skin coloring |
| 34% | RECOGNIZED | 10 | Called on by the chair |
| 34% | BOOTSTRAP | 9 | Loop at the back of a shoe, used to pull it on |
| 34% | GODS | 4 | "The Food of the ___ and How It Came to Earth," 1904 sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells |
| 34% | OREO | 4 | In a taste test by Epicurious, it lost out to the Back to Nature Classic Creme Cookie |
| 33% | FOOLSCAP | 8 | Size of writing paper measuring 13½ by 17 inches named after the watermark formerly used on it |
| 33% | SKID | 4 | To lose traction on the road |
| 33% | BATTERUP | 8 | Call to the on-deck circle |
| 33% | PITAPAT | 7 | Sound of rain on the roof |