| 100% | SEATTLE | 7 | City whose skyline is drawn in the opening of 43-Across |
| 40% | WHITNEYHOUSTON | 14 | "Saving All My Love for You" singer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame whose last name is a city in Texas (2 wds.) |
| 40% | XERES | 5 | City whose name was the source of the word "sherry" |
| 39% | SIXTIMEWINNER | 13 | Unique claim of the U.S. Open player whose name is hidden in 34-Across |
| 39% | WAS | 3 | Word seen 11 times in the opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 39% | ROUEN | 5 | City whose cathedral is the subject of a series of Monet paintings |
| 38% | ISTRIA | 6 | Peninsula in the N Adriatic Sea whose chief city is Pula |
| 38% | CARL | 4 | Astronomer Sagan whose papers are archived in the Library of Congress |
| 37% | XERES | 5 | Spanish city whose name is the source of the word sherry |
| 37% | ELMONTE | 7 | California city whose motto is "End of the Santa Fe Trail" |
| 37% | BUTE | 4 | Island in the Firth of Clyde whose only town is Rothesay |
| 37% | SUNROOF | 7 | The top of a car that can be opened in summer |
| 37% | BARCELONA | 9 | Basilica of the Sagrada Familia is in this city |
| 37% | WROCLAW | 7 | City in Poland on the River Oder whose German name is Breslau |
| 37% | ROYEMERSON | 10 | Australian tennis player whose record of six Australian Open wins was tied by 32-Across in 2016: 2 wds. |
| 36% | EXETER | 6 | City in Devon whose name contains the river on which it is situated |
| 36% | THESEEDSOFLOVE | 14 | 1989 studio album by 42-Across whose opening track is the Top 40 hit single "Woman in Chains" (4 wds.) |
| 36% | AMMON | 5 | Ancient nation of the Old Testament whose chief city was Rabbah |
| 36% | WEIMAR | 6 | German city that was the European Capital of Culture in 1999 |
| 36% | CRUSOE | 6 | Fictional hero whose first words are "I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York ..." |
| 36% | BOB | 3 | With 66-Across, choreographer whose life is depicted in the starts of 19-, 36- and 50-Across |
| 36% | SHOWERCURTAIN | 13 | It may be drawn in the bathroom |
| 36% | LINE | 4 | It may be drawn in the sand |
| 36% | BATH | 4 | It may be drawn in the evening |
| 36% | SABERS | 6 | They were drawn in the Civil War |
| 36% | EPCOTCENTER | 11 | Attraction in 69-Across designed to be a "city of the future" |
| 36% | JUNO | 4 | Goddess named in the opening of the "Aeneid" |
| 36% | ZENGARDEN | 9 | Where lines may be drawn in the sand |
| 36% | EAGLE | 5 | Bird in the opening of "The Colbert Report" |
| 36% | FRUIT | 5 | Type of food whose outsides are suggested by the outsides of 17-, 29-, 43- and 55-Across |