| 100% | CONAIR | 6 | Big maker of small appliances, or, as two words, a 1997 action film |
| 36% | FLOSS | 5 | Dental directive, or (as two words) a feature of five answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | NEOLOGY | 7 | Action of inventing a word or phrase |
| 33% | MBOX | 4 | Big maker of small cars |
| 31% | GAM | 3 | Word defined as "a social meeting of two (or more) Whale-ships" in Moby-Dick |
| 30% | BATHMANANDROBIN | 15 | 1997 action film about a spa duo? |
| 30% | CONAIR | 6 | 1997 action film set on a plane |
| 30% | NCR | 3 | Big maker of A.T.M.'s |
| 30% | SPOT | 4 | Small round shape that can be part of a pattern, such as on a ladybird or leopard |
| 29% | CROSSBREEDS | 11 | Animals with parents of two distinct varieties ... or a description of the pairs of shaded words? |
| 29% | DEAD | 4 | *Out of juice, as a phone ... or a word made by changing one letter of 23a |
| 29% | AUTOMATES | 9 | Streamlines, as a factory ... or, when read as two words, what the beginnings of the answers to starred clues are |
| 29% | BIGSPENDER | 10 | Maker of a small purchase, sarcastically |
| 29% | LEAFS | 5 | As she ___ through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the handwriting |
| 28% | TOMORROW | 8 | & 24A 1997 action film starring Pierce Brosnan as James Bond |
| 28% | QUODLIBET | 9 | Light piece of music based on two or more popular tunes such as Galimathias musicum by W A Mozart |
| 28% | CHAIR | 5 | Head, as a committee ... or a word that can follow the ends of 16-, 29-, 36-, 47- and 61-Across |
| 28% | ATALE | 5 | First two words of a Dickens novel |
| 28% | PEND | 4 | Remain unsettled, or, read as two words, what five of this puzzle's long answers have |
| 28% | LESSER | 6 | Smaller, as of two evils |
| 27% | GMC | 3 | Makers of big SUVs, such as the Yukon XL: Abbr. |
| 27% | VERB | 4 | Word of action, as with grammar |
| 27% | COG | 3 | Small part of a big machine |
| 27% | COG | 3 | Small piece of a big machine |
| 27% | LINE | 4 | Small part of a film script |
| 27% | DUETO | 5 | As a result of (2 words) |
| 27% | LEXICON | 7 | A dictionary or book of words |
| 27% | ERGO | 4 | As a result of or consequently |
| 27% | MOMENTUM | 8 | 2015 action film with Olga Kurylenko as a thief |
| 27% | TRANSFORMERS | 12 | 2007 action film based on a line of toys |