| 100% | HOPONPOP | 8 | Book with the line "My father can read big words, too. / Like Constantinople and Timbuktu" |
| 30% | YER | 3 | "__ Blues": Beatles song with the line "Even hate my rock and roll" |
| 30% | NATIVESON | 9 | 1940 novel with the line “We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail” |
| 30% | WHO | 3 | The ___, an English band with hit songs like "My Generation" and "I Can See For Miles" |
| 29% | EGO | 3 | Beyoncé song with the line "I talk like this 'cause I can back it up" |
| 29% | EGO | 3 | Beyoncé song with the line "He walk like this 'cause he can back it up" |
| 29% | WEEP | 4 | "Immortality," poem by Clare Harner with the line "Do not stand at my grave and ___" |
| 29% | CLUE | 4 | 1985 cult-classic film with the line “Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable” |
| 28% | IROBOT | 6 | Classic 1950 book with the line "It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion" |
| 28% | MRSANDMAN | 9 | Classic song with the line "Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci / And lots of wavy hair like Liberace" |
| 27% | IMALOSER | 8 | Beatles song with the line "My tears are falling like rain from the sky" |
| 27% | IMALOSER | 8 | Beatles song with the line “My tears are falling like rain from the sky” |
| 27% | DOUBLEORNOTHING | 15 | High-stakes gamble, and how the answers with circles can be read |
| 27% | FISHHEADS | 9 | 1978 novelty song with the line "Eat them up! Yum!" ... and what both parts of the answers to starred clues can be |
| 27% | RHYMES | 6 | Words that end with the same sounds, like "moan" and "groan" |
| 27% | CLEAR | 5 | With 64-Across, words that can precede the starts of 18-, 31-, 38- and 55-Across |
| 27% | OUTOF | 5 | Lacking, and what can go with each word in the answers to starred clues |
| 26% | TOTO | 4 | The dog in the movie line "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" |
| 26% | PAPERBACK | 9 | Softcover book, and what the last words of the answers to starred clues can have |
| 26% | ONLYPRETTIER | 12 | Miranda Lambert song with the lines "I'll keep drinkin' and you'll keep gettin' skinnier / Hey I'm just like you" (2 wds.) |
| 26% | OROMEO | 6 | Words that begin the line before "Deny thy father and refuse thy name" |
| 26% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 26% | JUMP | 4 | Word with "time" to indicate the plot for time travel movies like "Back to the Future" and "Interstellar" |
| 26% | DUST | 4 | Depending on the situation, this word can mean both, "cover with powder" and "clean the powder" |
| 26% | THEMUPPETMOVIE | 14 | '79 film with the line "Pardon my boa!" |
| 26% | RATATOUILLE | 11 | Pixar film with the line "Anyone can cook!" |
| 25% | TIGHTROPE | 9 | Janelle Monáe song with the lyrics "I can't complain about it / I gotta keep my balance / And just keep dancin' on it" |
| 25% | ILIAD | 5 | Epic with the line "Come, friend, you too must die" |
| 25% | ALPACINO | 8 | Actor with the line "Say hello to my little friend!" |
| 25% | HALO | 4 | Beyoncé hit with the line "I got my angel now" |