100% | TAXES | 5 | Death and ___ (the two certainties, according to Ben Franklin) |
51% | TIME | 4 | Money, according to Ben Franklin |
44% | DEATH | 5 | One of two certainties, to Franklin |
42% | ERAS | 4 | The Gilded Age and Reconstruction, to name two |
42% | BAINBRIDGE | 10 | Beryl —, late author of novels According to Queeney and The Dressmaker |
41% | SLEEP | 5 | According to Nas in "N.Y. State of Mind" this is the cousin of death |
40% | DOUBLEDATES | 11 | Two-couple outings ... and what the answers to starred clues are? |
40% | FOES | 4 | Two-Face and the Riddler, to Batman |
40% | DRPEPPER | 8 | Soda that, according to the Food and Drug Administration, is not technically a cola |
39% | URBANAREAS | 10 | Definition, according to the US Census Bureau, of Raleigh, NC, Tucson, AZ and Dayton, OH |
39% | SPLITENDS | 9 | Perm problem, and a hint to the four two-part answers |
39% | ROEG | 4 | Nicolas —, director of the films Two Deaths, Bad Timing and Track 29 |
37% | DEATHANDTAXES | 13 | Reliable things, to Ben Franklin |
37% | CATANDDOG | 9 | Two pets, often fighting, according to the idiom |
37% | NIXON | 5 | Two-time Time Man of the Year (and a hint to 17-, 27-, 41- and 54-Across) |
37% | DRAW | 4 | ___ two, play this card to make the next player take two cards and lose their turn |
37% | KUBO | 4 | "___ and the Two Strings" (2016 animated film) |
37% | DURER | 5 | "Knight, Death and the Devil" engraver |
37% | ASTHEYSAY | 9 | According to the proverb |
37% | OFFICIALLY | 10 | According to the authorities |
37% | PURPORTEDLY | 11 | According to the grapevine |
37% | ONAUTO | 6 | According to the program? |
36% | DST | 3 | Practice sometimes falsely attributed to Ben Franklin |
36% | KUBO | 4 | 2016 animated film "___ and the Two Strings" |
36% | SPORADES | 8 | Name given to two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea; the Northern — and Southern — |
36% | HOYLE | 5 | According to ___ (by the rules) |
36% | ALLYOUNEED | 10 | ... according to the Beatles |
36% | ADDED | 5 | Extra, and a two-word hint to the answers to the starred clues |
36% | CHICAGO | 7 | Illinois city, home to the Lincoln Park Zoo, and host of two International Conferences on Climate Change |
36% | FORSAKE | 7 | Abandon ... or two words often seen next to the starts of 17-, 27-, 47- and 60-Across |