| 100% | SEAN | 4 | Connery, whose speaking style is played on in this puzzle |
| 41% | VICTORFLEMING | 13 | Director of the eight starred films in this puzzle, who was born on 2/23/1889 |
| 40% | THIRTEENCOLONIES | 16 | Old group whose members are all represented in this puzzle |
| 39% | ELBA | 4 | Island whose name is another word in this puzzle spelled backward |
| 39% | COOPERSTOWN | 11 | Baseball Hall of Fame site where each of the managers in this puzzle will be inducted on July 27, 2014 |
| 38% | TINSMITH | 8 | Artisan whose work is featured in this puzzle? |
| 38% | TIC | 3 | With 40- and 43-Across, game that's been played in each of this puzzle's corners |
| 37% | LIBERTYBELL | 11 | Historic symbol whose shape can be found hidden in this completed puzzle |
| 37% | THEPRINCEANDTHEPAUPER | 21 | Mark Twain novel whose plot is encapsulated in this puzzle |
| 37% | MRT | 3 | Actor whose name is appropriate to appear in this puzzle |
| 36% | CURRENCY | 8 | What 15 answers in this puzzle appear on |
| 36% | SHADESOFPINK | 12 | What seven key words in this puzzle are |
| 36% | PANPIPES | 8 | Peruvian or Greek tunes are played on these |
| 36% | ENG | 3 | This puzzle is in it, briefly |
| 36% | NATO | 4 | Grp. whose alphabet is used eight times in this puzzle |
| 36% | NEEDLEINAHAYSTACK | 17 | Item hidden somewhere in this puzzle (where is it?) |
| 35% | TWENTYNINTHOFFEBRUARY | 21 | When the people featured in this puzzle were born |
| 35% | TILTEDARC | 9 | Controversial Richard Serra installation whose name is represented twice in this puzzle |
| 35% | CODES | 5 | Postal ___ (what the two-letter answers in this puzzle are) |
| 35% | IRATE | 5 | What nine key words in this puzzle are synonyms of |
| 35% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |
| 35% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 35% | UNDERTHEHOOD | 12 | Where nine key words in this puzzle can be found |
| 35% | GDFR | 4 | 2015 Flo Rida hit whose letters can be found sequentially in this puzzle's three longest entries |
| 35% | ENG | 3 | Language this puzzle is in: Abbr. |
| 35% | SEWINGKITS | 10 | Nine featured items in this puzzle may be found in these |
| 35% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 35% | FILM | 4 | What each completed pair of theme answers in this puzzle is |
| 35% | TWOFIRSTNAMES | 13 | What six people in this puzzle might be said to possess |
| 35% | HELLSKITCHEN | 12 | Manhattan neighborhood where the meal in this puzzle might be served? |