100% | PURSE | 5 | Derby prize (and a letter bank for 30-Across) |
58% | BLARE | 5 | Loudspeaker sound (and a letter bank for 60-Across) |
58% | FIELD | 5 | Football locale (and a letter bank for 47-Across) |
58% | ANTIC | 5 | Ludicrous (and a letter bank for 17-Across) |
42% | DONOT | 5 | "___ disturb!" (and a hint for 17-, 40- and 65-Across, and 10- and 30-Down) |
41% | ONETWOTHREEFOUR | 15 | Start of a count ... or the letter frequencies in 17-, 30-, 46- and 64-Across |
38% | NOFEES | 6 | Certain bank policy for A.T.M. withdrawals and wire transfers |
38% | TATA | 4 | Father, in Xhosa, and a nickname for 36-Across |
37% | DJSET | 5 | Track mix for a party, and what the five longest Across answers comprise |
36% | CROSSPARTYLINES | 15 | Act in a bipartisan way, and what the circled letters do Across and Down |
36% | SNL | 3 | TV staple for over 30 years (and a hint to 17-, 21-, 32-, 41-, 54- and 61-Across) |
35% | TOOTHEXTRACTIONS | 16 | AND A FOR A |
35% | ERRAND | 6 | Whipping down to the mailbox to stick a letter in and stopping at the corner store for bread, for example |
35% | FOODCOURT | 9 | Feature of many a mall ... or a place for 20-Across and 26- and 30-Down? |
35% | UFO | 3 | Transport for a 30-Across |
34% | BEWILDERMENT | 12 | Novel by 30-Across shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize |
34% | AAA | 3 | Org. to call for a 30 Across |
34% | FISH | 4 | A part of this starts 17-, 30-, 48- and 63-Across |
34% | SYLVIAPLATH | 11 | American poet and novelist who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for "The Collected Poems" in 1982: 2 wds. |
33% | LASTRITES | 9 | Priest's duty, and a fitting final answer after 17-, 30- and 46-Across |
33% | DONOTLETTHE | 11 | With 34- and 54-Across, basic instruction for [circled letters] |
33% | HEPATITISC | 10 | Virus that Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice won a Nobel Prize for discovering (October, 2020) |
33% | HOPTOIT | 7 | "Get going!," and a hint for the starts of 17-, 24-, 51- and 62-Across |
33% | INN | 3 | Bar and a guesthouse for travellers |
33% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | Novel by 30-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
33% | EDGAR | 5 | Prize for a mystery |
33% | OBIE | 4 | Prize for a play |
33% | CNN | 3 | Letters for a King? |
33% | ESP | 3 | Letters for a psychic |
33% | HRH | 3 | Letters for a prince |