| 100% | SUBGENRE | 8 | Dixieland or bebop vis-à-vis jazz |
| 43% | CHARTERMEMBER | 13 | Iran or Iraq vis-à-vis OPEC |
| 43% | SECT | 4 | Theravada or Mahayana vis-à-vis Buddhism |
| 43% | STREET | 6 | Houston or Washington vis-à-vis Manhattan |
| 43% | DIV | 3 | Anat. or physiol., vis-à-vis biology |
| 42% | EVICTEE | 7 | Adam or Eve vis-à-vis 6-Down |
| 41% | BYPRODUCT | 9 | Carbon dioxide or water vis-à-vis cellular respiration |
| 40% | CROSSSTREET | 11 | Hollywood or Vine, vis-à-vis the other |
| 40% | BURB | 4 | Bellflower or Bell Gardens, vis-à-vis L.A. |
| 40% | NEPHEW | 6 | Huey, Dewey, or Louie, vis-à-vis Donald Duck |
| 40% | DROPOUT | 7 | Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates, vis-à-vis Harvard |
| 38% | STATEBIRD | 9 | Cardinal vis-à-vis Illinois, Indiana or Ohio |
| 38% | TEAM | 4 | L.A. Lakers or Utah Jazz |
| 38% | ALUM | 4 | Kristen Wiig or Maya Rudolph, vis-à-vis "Saturday Night Live" |
| 38% | CHARLIEPARKER | 13 | Legendary Grammy Award-winning jazz saxophonist, who co-invented the music style called bop or bebop: 2 wds. |
| 36% | BRISKER | 7 | Like fall vis a vis summer |
| 36% | WARMER | 6 | Like the 70s vis-à-vis the 60s or 50s, say |
| 36% | TRANSLATOR | 10 | Jorge Luis Borges vis-à-vis William Faulkner or Franz Kafka |
| 34% | GONEWITHTHEWINE | 15 | Or "Confessions of a Disgruntled Sommelier"? |
| 34% | CUTTINGTHECARDS | 15 | Part of a blackjack dealer's ritual … or what this answer is doing vis-à-vis the answers to the starred clues |
| 34% | RIVAL | 5 | A Hatfield vis-à-vis a McCoy |
| 34% | NOTE | 4 | A or B on a musical scale |
| 34% | TREATMENT | 9 | A cure or salve for a condition |
| 34% | EUKARYOTE | 9 | A cell or organism with a nucleus |
| 34% | STANZA | 6 | A section or verse of a poem |
| 34% | PORTRAIT | 8 | A picture or painting of a person |
| 33% | CZAR | 4 | Fyodor II or Ivan VI |
| 33% | LATINCAN | 8 | Unit of a VI-pack? |
| 33% | NINA | 4 | ___ Simone, a legendary jazz singer |
| 33% | ELLA | 4 | ___ Fitzgerald, a legendary Jazz vocalist |