| 100% | PALS | 4 | Friends that surround the answers to 21-, 26-, 43- and 50-Across |
| 57% | BERRY | 5 | Word that follows the start of 21-, 26-, 43- and 50-Across |
| 48% | SALT | 4 | Theme of this puzzle, found in the answers to 21-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across |
| 42% | BOWLING | 7 | Sport that is the key to interpreting the answers to 21-, 40- and 56-Across |
| 40% | DOSEQUIS | 8 | Beer brand whose logo hints at the answers to 17-, 19-, 38-, 43- and 61-Across |
| 40% | FLYINGSTART | 11 | What the answers to 17-, 26-, 37-, 39- and 52-Across are all off to? |
| 39% | HORSEPLAY | 9 | Roughhousing ... or a hint to the ends of 17-, 21-, 26-, 33-, 40-, 43-, 47- and 56-Across |
| 38% | SEEMEAFTERCLASS | 15 | Ominous request from a teacher ... or a hint to the first words (and following letters!) of 17-, 26- and 43-Across |
| 37% | WHITEHOUSEDOGS | 14 | What the starts of 21-, 26-, 40- and 50-Across are, for the presidents in their clues |
| 37% | AIRPLANESEATS | 13 | What the ends of the answers to 20-, 26- and 42-Across are |
| 37% | LUCK | 4 | Word that can follow the starts of 20-, 26-, 43- and 52-Across |
| 37% | BALL | 4 | Word that can follow the ends of 17-, 26-, 43- and 58-Across |
| 36% | WHERETHE | 8 | With 43-Across, an exciting place, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers |
| 36% | ITSATRAP | 8 | Warning to the answers to the three starred clues regarding the word hidden in 17-, 34- and 43-Across |
| 35% | LIQUORSTORE | 11 | Where to purchase the starts of 21-, 26- and 45-Across |
| 35% | CUTITOUT | 8 | "Stop that!" ... and a hint to the answers to 17-, 23-, 39- and 52-Across |
| 35% | ELF | 3 | Christmas figure seen in the answers to 18, 29, 46, and 60 Across |
| 35% | SEWNUP | 6 | Clinched, and a hint to the four longest Across answers |
| 34% | PIC | 3 | Shot surrounding the answers to starred clues |
| 34% | MIND | 4 | What surrounds the answers to the starred clues |
| 34% | FRANGLAIS | 9 | Hybrid linguistic term that hints at the answers to 17-, 25-, 36- and 51-Across |
| 34% | BESIDES | 7 | Also ... and, in three parts, a hint to the four longest Across answers |
| 34% | CANDY | 5 | Sweets ... and, in three parts, a hint to the four longest Across answers |
| 33% | PHOTOFINISH | 11 | Close race ending, and a hint to the answers to 17-, 26-, 39- and 54-Across |
| 33% | GHOST | 5 | Word game ... or a word that can precede the starts of 18-, 26-, 43- and 54-Across |
| 33% | SHAMEONYOU | 10 | "That wasn't nice!" and a hint to a trigram hidden in the asterisked answers |
| 33% | TOOCLEVERBYHALF | 15 | Overly inventive ... or a hint to the answers to 17-, 26- and 42-Across |
| 33% | YOUSEE | 6 | "It's like this," and a phonetic hint to the five longest Across answers |
| 33% | FOLLOW | 6 | Word missing from the answers to 17-, 23-, 29-, 40-, 47- and 62-Across |
| 32% | BROADWAY | 8 | Where the answers to 20-, 24-, 36- and 46-Across have appeared in lights |