| 100% | AVOUCH | 6 | Duke of Gloucester: "...look, what I have said, I will ___ in presence of the king"; Richard III, Act I, Sc. III |
| 33% | IMO | 3 | "This is what I have to say," on the internet: Abbr. |
| 33% | STOOP | 5 | Bend to go through a doorway, say ... or what may be in front of the door |
| 32% | SCENEV | 6 | Part of the act when King Richard III dies |
| 31% | LED | 3 | Was in charge of the troop, say |
| 31% | NAT | 3 | I played jazz and was a part of the King Cole Trio |
| 30% | ASHE | 4 | Arthur, the king of tennis after whom the stadium in New York has been named |
| 30% | BOSWORTH | 8 | & 18D Battle of the Wars of the Roses at which Richard III was killed in 1485 |
| 30% | PITS | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the ___?" (Erma Bombeck book) |
| 30% | ERMA | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" writer Bombeck |
| 30% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 30% | ISA | 3 | Erma Bombeck's "If Life ___ Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" (2 wds.) |
| 30% | ISA | 3 | "If Life ___ Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" (Erma Bombeck book): 2 wds. |
| 30% | QUESTBATHROOMS | 14 | What King Arthur's men would like to have seen more of along the way? |
| 30% | OED | 3 | Letters that I had to look up in what turned out to be itself, in order to find out what they meant |
| 30% | OLDOAKTREE | 10 | Where Merlin is imprisoned in "Idylls of the King" |
| 29% | ROARS | 5 | What you hear in this conversation: "I'm the king of the jungle!" "No, I'm the king of the jungle!" |
| 29% | CERSEI | 6 | I am Jaime's twin sister and two of my children have sat on the Iron Throne in "Game of Thrones" |
| 29% | ROYALFLUSH | 10 | What's hidden at the ends of 17-, 23-, 29-, 43- and 47-Across--if all are in, say, 38-Across |
| 29% | PENNY | 5 | "A ___ saved is worth two in the bush," example of 50a that encourages being content with what you have |
| 29% | ETAT | 4 | What France's "le Roi Soleil" - the Sun King - is purportedly said to have equated himself to |
| 29% | RAYCHARLES | 10 | "What'd I Say" singer whose sunglasses are in the Smithsonian (2 wds.) |
| 28% | LIONHEART | 9 | The epithet of King Richard I |
| 28% | ICEBOX | 6 | "I have eaten the plums that were in the ___" (start of a William Carlos Williams poem) |
| 28% | ITSINTHEBAG | 11 | "We have this won" ... or what could be said about each of the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 28% | THEJUNGLE | 9 | Lions are said to be the kings of this |
| 28% | MONGKUT | 7 | Name of the king in The King and I |
| 28% | LIMA | 4 | I'm a city in Peru and my nickname is "The City of Kings" |
| 28% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
| 28% | STINKS | 6 | Has been in the fridge too long, say |