| 100% | MOB | 3 | Fellowship portrayed in 37-Across, with "the" |
| 57% | KRISTEN | 7 | With 37-Across, actress who portrayed Jodie Foster's daughter in "Panic Room" |
| 57% | OCTAVIA | 7 | With 37-Across, "Hidden Figures" actress who voices the manticore Corey in "Onward" |
| 56% | JULIUS | 6 | With 25-Across, speaker of the quote hidden in 20-, 37- and 53-Across |
| 56% | KENNETH | 7 | With 37-Across, Scottish author who wrote "The Wind in the Willows": 2 wds. |
| 55% | NAOMI | 5 | With 37-Across, first Japanese tennis player to be ranked No. 1 in the world |
| 55% | SALMA | 5 | With 37-Across, "Eternals" actress who plays Kitty Softpaws in "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" |
| 55% | RONALD | 6 | With 19 Across, leader portrayed by Alan Rickman in "Lee Daniels' The Butler" |
| 53% | OTANNENBAUM | 11 | Seasonal song with a hint to the last words in 17-, 25-, 37- and 45-Across |
| 53% | PETSOUNDS | 9 | Beach Boys album with the hit "Wouldn't It Be Nice" ... or things hidden in 17-, 31-, 37- and 49-Across |
| 52% | WHATATIME | 9 | With 16 Across, exclamation from one living in the moment |
| 51% | LIDOSHUFFLE | 11 | Boz Scaggs hit with the lyric "One more for the road," and what can be found in 17-, 23-, 37-, and 48-Across? |
| 51% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 50% | CAPTAIN | 7 | With 37-Across, title for the hidden individuals in 16-, 23-, 46-, and 58-Across, thanks to the circles in each answer? |
| 50% | DRY | 3 | With 10 Across, what cannot be seen in the house after a tearjerker |
| 50% | BOOBY | 5 | With 127 Across, one of many devices thwarting the burglars in "Home Alone" |
| 49% | TERRA | 5 | With 37-Across, the ground |
| 49% | BEN | 3 | With 36-Down, "Roots" star who portrayed the mayor of Cleveland on "Hot in Cleveland" |
| 48% | THOMAS | 6 | With 65 Across, the first to see his name ''up in lights'' (1881) |
| 48% | GEORGE | 6 | With 37-Across, speaker of the query |
| 48% | MICHAEL | 7 | With 37-Across, the King of Pop |
| 48% | BEAR | 4 | With 79-Across, babes in the woods? |
| 48% | MURDER | 6 | With 57-Across, story in the offing? |
| 48% | BILL | 4 | With 29-Across, surprise in the mail |
| 48% | AGES | 4 | With 36-Across, in the distant past |
| 48% | ASPEN | 5 | With 58-Across, quaker in the woods |
| 48% | IHEARMENACHEM | 13 | With 102 Across, something Jimmy Carter probably never said at the Camp David talks in 1978? |
| 48% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle |
| 47% | PLAYERMANAGER | 13 | Role for 43-Across with the Cleveland Indians in the 1970s (Hyph.) |
| 47% | ABA | 3 | Org. that merged with the 41-Across in the 1970s |