| 100% | GALL | 4 | Bitterness is key to everything |
| 53% | ALMOND | 6 | This nut is key to marzipan |
| 51% | EMPRESS | 7 | This Childlike royal is key to saving Fantasia |
| 49% | UEY | 3 | Often-illegal maneuver that is key to answering the asterisked clues |
| 48% | TAKEAWAYS | 9 | Key points to be remembered |
| 46% | ALLTHAT | 7 | Everything it's cracked up to be |
| 45% | TIMING | 6 | It's said to be everything |
| 45% | EST | 3 | Clock setting in New York that is key to the Times Square Ball Drop: Abbr. |
| 45% | ESC | 3 | Key that is often used to exit an application |
| 45% | RESIDUARYESTATE | 15 | Everything not specifically left to someone in a will |
| 44% | WALL | 4 | Wife takes everything to be a barrier |
| 44% | JUSTRELAX | 9 | "Easy ... everything's going to be OK" |
| 44% | BEE | 3 | Where everything needs to be spelled out |
| 44% | PLAYAREA | 8 | What the keys are to a pianist? |
| 44% | TAKEAWAY | 8 | Key lesson to be learned from an event or meeting |
| 43% | ABORE | 5 | ''The secret of being __ is to tell everything'': Voltaire |
| 43% | HAS | 3 | "Every child ___ the capacity to be everything": Doris Lessing |
| 41% | PANAM | 5 | Bygone airline whose first flight was from Key West to Havana |
| 40% | IGNITION | 8 | Part of a vehicle the key is pushed in to start it |
| 40% | OWE | 3 | "I ___ everything to my mother!" ("She got me where I am today") |
| 39% | VITAL | 5 | Woman takes it to be key |
| 39% | AUDIT | 5 | Go through the books at a company to ensure everything is in place |
| 39% | CAPRESE | 7 | Insalata whose key ingredients happen to be the colors of the Italian flag |
| 39% | PAYNOATTENTIONTO | 16 | Film quote (with 69 and 84 Across) that's the key to what's being ignored this puzzle |
| 39% | AVOCADO | 7 | This fruit is the key to guacamole |
| 39% | LOCKSMITH | 9 | Someone whose work is related to keys |
| 38% | DONTWORRY | 9 | "Everything's going to be OK!" |
| 38% | THERETHERE | 10 | "Everything's going to be OK" |
| 38% | RELAX | 5 | "Everything's going to be fine" |
| 38% | OKAY | 4 | "Everything's going to be ___" (alright) |