| 100% | DATA | 4 | Facts and figures, or numbers. The kind of thing you would store on a hard drive |
| 39% | SUNTAN | 6 | The kind of lotion you put on to avoid sunburn and get a 25a |
| 30% | DATA | 4 | Facts and figures on a spreadsheet |
| 30% | DATA | 4 | Facts and figures, on a computer |
| 30% | DATA | 4 | Facts and figures on a spreadsheet, maybe |
| 30% | TOERING | 7 | A metal hoop you would wear on one of the digits of your feet. |
| 30% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of cards in a full house or three of a kind |
| 30% | CHASER | 6 | Drink that follows a hard-liquor shot ... or the title of a song on Carrie Underwood's latest album |
| 30% | INNERNERD | 9 | The secret geeky part of you ... or a hint to 17-, 23-, 32-, 42- and 49-Across |
| 29% | FIGUREHEAD | 10 | Carved decoration on a ship's prow ... or a hint to the first word of 17-, 25-, 37- and 45-Across |
| 29% | STATS | 5 | Facts and figures on a sports news crawl, for short |
| 29% | CORE | 4 | Part of a big apple that the squirrels and crows will eat, even if you don't |
| 29% | HOVERFLY | 8 | Insect often mistaken for a wasp or bee that feeds on the nectar and pollen of flowers |
| 29% | YOUSWEAR | 8 | Something done on a stack of Bibles or in response to someone stealing the cheesecake you were going to eat for breakfast |
| 29% | SANSA | 5 | Winterfell character on "Game of Thrones" ... or, if you change the fourth letter to T, a wintertime character |
| 28% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of sides on a triangle or pentagon |
| 28% | THEPLOTTHICKENS | 15 | "Now things are getting interesting" ... or a hint to the first words of 17-, 24-, 45- and 57-Across |
| 28% | ATOMIC | 6 | Kind of number spotted on the periodic table |
| 28% | SELLBYDATES | 11 | Labels on grocery store products, and a description of the juxtaposed circled words on the right side of the puzzle |
| 28% | NOTMYFIRSTRODEO | 15 | "Done this before, you know!" ... or a hint to the last words of 17-, 23-, 31-, 40- and 48-Across |
| 28% | GREEN | 5 | Grassy area of the golf course that you would play on during a day of golf |
| 28% | THISTOOSHALLPASS | 16 | Adage on the impermanence of suffering ... or a hint to 18-, 29-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 28% | ITMEANSALOT | 11 | “That’s so nice of you” . . . and a literal description of the last word in 17-, 21-, 39-, or 57-Across |
| 28% | ROLL | 4 | With 44- and 76-Across, way to put legislators on record ... or the start, middle and end of a word ladder |
| 28% | NUT | 3 | Kind of fruit with a hard shell and a seed |
| 28% | PALM | 4 | Kind of a tree, or a part of the hand |
| 28% | IRIS | 4 | Kind of flower, or a colorful part of the eye |
| 28% | CCV | 3 | Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Geta, which, as you undoubtedly know, started on a Tuesday |
| 27% | CROWDFUND | 9 | Raise money from a large number of people on the Internet, and a word added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2014 |
| 27% | GIGA | 4 | The "G" in GB on a hard drive |