| 100% | FRONT | 5 | Be the head of, as a band |
| 66% | POSEFOR | 7 | Be the subject of, as a photograph |
| 62% | FIT | 3 | Be the right size, as a pair of jeans |
| 60% | REGREW | 6 | Came back, as a severed head of the Hydra |
| 60% | REALISM | 7 | The practice of accepting a situation as it is |
| 59% | LED | 3 | Was the head of |
| 58% | CLASHING | 8 | The __ of cymbals as a band plays |
| 58% | LEAD | 4 | Be the head of, say |
| 56% | ASIA | 4 | "Heat of the Moment" band whose name is a continent |
| 55% | SANS | 4 | Without ... or, as a plural, what the starts of the answers to starred clues are without? |
| 55% | MASSACHUSETTS | 13 | State whose General Court was the first to recognize Fourth of July as a state celebration |
| 55% | PRINCIPAL | 9 | The head of a school |
| 55% | CEO | 3 | The head of a company |
| 55% | KERRY | 5 | Musician Livgren who was a founding member of the rock band Kansas |
| 54% | DON | 3 | The head of a mafia family |
| 54% | DAVIES | 6 | Ray and Dave ___, brothers who are a part of the band, The Kinks |
| 54% | GILMOUR | 7 | David ___, English instrumentalist who was a member of the rock band "Pink Floyd" |
| 54% | SYD | 3 | ___ Barrett, English musician who was a member of the rock band "Pink Floyd" |
| 54% | WRIGHT | 6 | Richard ___, English musician who was a member of the rock band "Pink Floyd" |
| 54% | WATERS | 6 | Roger ___, English bassist who was a member of the rock band "Pink Floyd" |
| 54% | BLOFELD | 7 | James Bond villain who is the head of SPECTRE |
| 54% | FAUCI | 5 | Anthony ___, immunologist and head of NIAID, who is a member of the Trump administration's pandemic task force |
| 54% | ABBESS | 6 | The head of a convent of nuns |
| 54% | ORB | 3 | Another word for a sphere, such as the Sun, which is an ___ of light |
| 53% | THEHERD | 7 | The head of __ was calling Nellie the Elephant |
| 53% | PRESIDENT | 9 | The head of a company, often the CEO |
| 53% | PUMAS | 5 | Black ___, band whose "Colors" was nominated for a 2021 Grammy for Record of the Year |
| 53% | AUTOMATES | 9 | Streamlines, as a factory ... or, when read as two words, what the beginnings of the answers to starred clues are |
| 53% | CHAIR | 5 | Head, as a committee ... or a word that can follow the ends of 16-, 29-, 36-, 47- and 61-Across |
| 52% | MESSRS | 6 | Abbr. at the head of a letter |