| 100% | LIV | 3 | Collaborator with Ingmar on Scenes From a Marriage and Face to Face |
| 37% | BYEBYEBIRDIE | 12 | Musical with the song "Put On a Happy Face," and a hint to making four answers match their starred clues |
| 35% | EFFIE | 5 | Avis Hotchkiss' daughter who drove with her mom in completing the 9000 mile trip from NY to SF and back in 1915 on a Harley-Davidson |
| 35% | START | 5 | With 39-Across, advice from 29-Across on how to win a lifetime achievement award |
| 35% | LORE | 4 | Suffix with "folk" to mean tales, myths, and legends from a particular culture |
| 33% | PIERROT | 7 | Male character from French pantomime with a whitened face and pointed hat |
| 33% | NUMLOCK | 7 | Click this to turn a keypad with 0 to 9 on and off |
| 32% | FASHION | 7 | With 37-Across, up on the latest trends, and a fitting description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 32% | WRAP | 4 | With 61-Down, "Get a move on!" and an instruction for the answers to the starred clues |
| 32% | PATRICK | 7 | ___ Brewer from "Schitt's Creek" who takes a reluctant David Rose on a hike and proposes to him at the top of the trail |
| 32% | WHEW | 4 | Word that corresponds to the emoji with a grinning face, beads of sweat and seems to be wiping its brow |
| 32% | SPLIT | 5 | With 65-Across, chore on a winter to-do list ... and what appears in each set of circles |
| 32% | DIME | 4 | Ten-cent coin with Roosevelt's face on it, and a word that rhymes with "time" |
| 32% | RANT | 4 | *Go on a tirade ... or a word used with 25d to mean shout and complain angrily |
| 31% | APRIL | 5 | ___ Ludgate, character from "Parks and Recreation" who shares her name with the month after March and has a perfect poker face |
| 31% | KATE | 4 | ___ Hudson and Matthew McConaughey, iconic on-screen pair from "Fool's Gold" and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" |
| 31% | YOUR | 4 | With 37- and 39-Across, book and TV series on human evolution, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 31% | TOP | 3 | With 66-Across, place on a keyboard to find all the letters in 16-, 28-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 31% | FREDDY | 6 | Singer Fender with a 1975 hit that went to #1 on both the pop and country charts |
| 31% | MURPHYBROWN | 11 | CBS TV character with a colorful last name, played by Candice Bergen from 1988 to 1998 and 2018 to 2019: 2 wds. |
| 31% | CROWDFUND | 9 | Raise money from a large number of people on the Internet, and a word added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2014 |
| 31% | BORN | 4 | "___ to Run," song by Bruce Springsteen about driving on U.S. Route 9 and hope of starting anew with a girl |
| 31% | AMA | 3 | Initials after "I am inbred" and "I (22f) invited 15 strangers from tinder to have thanksgiving with me" on Reddit |
| 31% | SOFTANIMAL | 10 | With 62-Across, oft-quoted phrase from Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 30% | ROLL | 4 | With 44- and 76-Across, way to put legislators on record ... or the start, middle and end of a word ladder |
| 30% | SHOPLIFT | 8 | To hide and steal goods from a store |
| 30% | SEW | 3 | To stitch something with a needle and thread |
| 30% | DOOR | 4 | Outlet to and from a room? |
| 30% | LAHR | 4 | Defensive End Warren with 40 interceptions from 1950-59 and called a "ball hawk" on the Cleveland's list of "Browns Legends" |
| 30% | BACKAWAY | 8 | *What to do when coming face to face with a bear |