| 100% | GENESIS | 7 | Book with Adam and 41-Across |
| 56% | JUNEPOINTER | 11 | ... and 41-Across sang with their siblings |
| 55% | TRAFFIC | 7 | With 41 Across, red (top) and green (bottom) street-corner devices |
| 55% | ABRIEF | 6 | With 28-Across and 41-Across, bestselling cosmology book by 14-Across/47-Across (2 wds.) |
| 53% | TWOHUNDREDTH | 12 | With 41 and 55 Across, what 15 Across is |
| 53% | GROWING | 7 | With 41 Across, gradually-apparent problem ... and an explanation of the puzzle's circles? |
| 49% | BIBLE | 5 | Book featuring Adam and Eve |
| 49% | ATLAS | 5 | Book with inlets and insets |
| 49% | ATLAS | 5 | Book with maps and topography |
| 48% | TWIST | 5 | With 41- and 42-Across, 1964 Beatles hit |
| 48% | STURM | 5 | With 40- and 41-Across, 18th-century literary and musical movement |
| 48% | JACK | 4 | With 41-Across, co-creator of Captain America and the Hulk |
| 47% | IASIMOV | 7 | Book with reminiscences of Heinlein and Clarke |
| 46% | CORNER | 6 | With 41-Across, corporate status symbol ... and a hint to the circled letters |
| 46% | SAML | 4 | Adams, who was a 112-Across, along with Th. Jefferson and Benj. Franklin |
| 46% | WALDEN | 6 | Book with "Solitude" and "The Pond in Winter" chapters |
| 46% | FISTBUMPOR | 10 | With 40 and 64 Across, congratulatory choices |
| 46% | NOTHINGTO | 9 | With 36 and 56 Across, so-so |
| 45% | HAHN | 4 | With 41 Across, German chemist |
| 45% | CECILY | 6 | With 41-Across, former "S.N.L." regular who played Gemma and Cathy Anne |
| 45% | TWENTYONE | 9 | Number associated with 17-, 25-, 41- and 51-Across |
| 45% | CANTWALKAND | 11 | With 35 and 56 Across, is quite uncoordinated |
| 45% | TIC | 3 | With 50 and 55 Across, the ''central'' theme |
| 45% | BREVITYIS | 9 | With 24 and 15 Across, quote from "Hamlet" |
| 45% | LAUGHTER | 8 | With 13 and 22 Across, "prescription" for humor |
| 45% | ONE | 3 | With 41 Across, a vitamin brand |
| 44% | MARTIN | 6 | With 41- and 55-Across, civil rights leader honored on January 21, 2013 |
| 44% | ORIGINAL | 8 | With 32-Across, Adam and Eve's transgression |
| 44% | BYE | 3 | With 38 and 39 Across, NSYNC hit of 2000 |
| 44% | CHIEFJUSTICE | 12 | With 39 and 44 Across, the most major magistrate |