| 100% | SPLITINFINITIVE | 15 | Grammatical infelicity ... or what 17-, 23-, 48- or 60-Across is? |
| 60% | THELAST | 7 | What shall be first ... or words that can precede 17-, 23-, 52- and 60-Across |
| 57% | DOUBLENEGATIVES | 15 | Grammatical taboos exemplified by 17-, 23-, 48- and 60-Across |
| 57% | COOKIES | 7 | What 17-, 23-, 50- and 60-Across are types of |
| 54% | VAPORTRAILS | 11 | What airplanes leave in the sky ... or what 17-, 23-, 37- and 48-Across have? |
| 54% | BACKTOBACKGAMES | 15 | Doubleheader ... or what 17-, 29- and 48-Across are? |
| 53% | OVERSHARING | 11 | Social sin ... and what 17-, 23-, 38- and 48-Across are guilty of? |
| 52% | SKYWRITING | 10 | Message from a pilot ... or what 17-, 22-, 36- and 48-Across each is? |
| 49% | MARK | 4 | Word that can follow the end of 17-, 23-, 37-, 48- or 60-Across |
| 48% | STARTOFSPRING | 13 | Vernal equinox, and what the last words of 17-, 26-, 48- and 60-Across might be considered |
| 48% | LAUNDRYLIST | 11 | Extensive enumeration ... or what's formed by the ends of 17-, 23-, 34- and 48-Across |
| 48% | SOUNDSGOOD | 10 | "It's a plan" … and what might be said of 17-, 23-, 35- and 48-Across |
| 48% | GOONAHEAD | 9 | "I'll catch up!" ... or what the ends of 17-, 23-, 37- and 48-Across do? |
| 47% | LEADERBOARD | 11 | List of top-scoring players, and what the start of 17-, 23-, 39-, or 51-Across could be called? |
| 47% | THINGSTHATBREAK | 15 | What 17-, 24-, 48- and 57-Across are |
| 47% | MAGAZINEREADERS | 15 | What 17-, 20-, 56- and 60-Across are? |
| 47% | AGOODDEAL | 9 | What 17-, 25-, 36- or 50-Across is |
| 47% | GOVERNMENTBONDS | 15 | Treasury notes ... or what the two sides of 17-, 23-, 37- and 52-Across are joined with? |
| 47% | GEEWHIZ | 7 | Beaver Cleaver expletive ... or what you might need to be to answer 18-, 23-, 51- and 60-Across? |
| 47% | TUCKEDINBED | 11 | Put to rest, or what the answers to the clues at 17-, 23-, 37- and 49-Across are |
| 46% | DOGTAGS | 7 | Military IDs ... or what 17-, 23-, 51- and 61-Across have |
| 46% | THEEIGHTIES | 11 | When Pac-Man and Rubik's Cube were popular ... or a phonetic hint for 17-, 23-, 37- and 48-Across |
| 45% | LINES | 5 | Botox targets ... or what 17-, 28-, 45- and 60-Across all have |
| 45% | TODOLIST | 8 | Planner's aid ... or what 17-, 25-, 36- and 49-Across are? |
| 45% | INSIDEINFO | 10 | Dirt ... or what 17-, 25-, 36- and 48-Across all have? |
| 44% | 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? |
| 44% | REVERSINGCOURSE | 15 | Backtracking ... or what 17-, 27- and 46-Across are doing? |
| 44% | FRESHSTART | 10 | What a new year can give you ... or what 17-, 23-, 34-, and 49-Across can have? |
| 44% | BUILDINGSPECS | 13 | Parameters for a construction project . . . or, read another way, what the last words of 17-, 23-, 49-, and 54-Across might be used for? |
| 43% | HOTHEADED | 9 | Impetuous, and what 16-, 23-, 34- and 48-Across are, initially |