| 100% | OBEDIENT | 8 | Dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority |
| 35% | FINNAN | 6 | Haddock cured with the smoke of green wood or peat in NE Scotland |
| 35% | CAPTAIN | 7 | The man or woman in command of a ship or vessel |
| 34% | LORDPROVOST | 11 | Convenor of the local authority in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh or Glasgow |
| 34% | BONDS | 5 | Treasury items that in 2019 the Trump Administration considered selling with a maturity of 50 years |
| 34% | SECRET | 6 | With 74-Across, voting system that affords anonymity ... or the theme of this puzzle? |
| 34% | LEITH | 5 | Port on the Firth of Forth that merged with Edinburgh in 1920 |
| 34% | THROAT | 6 | Part of the body that's with ear and nose in ENT |
| 33% | STAR | 4 | With 56-Down, series that's the source of the movie line in the circles |
| 33% | OTIS | 4 | Name that rhymes with another answer in the same column of the grid |
| 33% | ENOSIS | 6 | Movement for the union of Cyprus with Greece that began in the 1930s |
| 33% | EMOTIONS | 8 | Things that might be raised in court … with or without the shaded letter |
| 33% | ERIE | 4 | City in Pennsylvania that shares its name with one of the Great Lakes |
| 33% | OFFICERS | 8 | Those in authority in the armed forces |
| 33% | SUPER | 5 | With 19-Across, series of arcade games that requires saving the Princess in the Mushroom Kingdom |
| 33% | COG | 3 | ___ in the machine, phrase associated with machines that means "small part of a large organization" |
| 33% | DACAPO | 6 | Musical instruction that a piece be repeated, in part or whole, from the beginning |
| 33% | ANGLICAN | 8 | Someone faithful to the Church of England or any Church in communion with it |
| 33% | BUZZER | 6 | Loud noise that marks the end of a quarter or a game in basketball |
| 33% | CRIMEAN | 7 | War that ended with the "Treaty of Paris" in 1856 |
| 33% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 32% | UMBRELLAS | 9 | Protectors of those in the rain |
| 32% | MALARIA | 7 | Disease that was the subject of the second Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1902) |
| 32% | PAIGNTON | 8 | Coastal town in South Devon that with Torquay and Brixham forms the borough of Torbay |
| 32% | TAHOE | 5 | California freshwater lake with a name that translates to "edge of the lake" in Washoe |
| 32% | GOOD | 4 | With 65-Across, comment that might be heard after the start of 17-, 28-, 45- or 59-Across |
| 32% | BLACK | 5 | With 41- and 43-Across, cop cruiser ... or a description of the five animals named in this puzzle |
| 32% | LEASHES | 7 | Bunch held at intersections on outings with pets ... or in the intersections of the shaded words |
| 32% | SAWIV | 5 | 2007 horror installment that begins with a microcassette being found in the stomach of the villain |
| 32% | RAMSBOTTOM | 10 | Town in Greater Manchester that shares its name with a snake companion of the puppet Sooty |