| 100% | FURIOUS | 7 | Grandmaster Flash and the __ Five |
| 93% | SEXTET | 6 | Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, for example |
| 63% | THEMESSAGE | 10 | Rap anthem by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five |
| 51% | RICKI | 5 | "___ and the Flash" (2015 Meryl Streep movie) |
| 48% | NANCI | 5 | “Love at the Five and Dime” country singer Griffith |
| 48% | FIREWORKS | 9 | Displays with flashes and bangs in the night sky |
| 47% | FLASH | 5 | Grandmaster ___ (pioneering rapper whose group included the Furious Five) |
| 47% | SIKH | 4 | Believer in the Five Thieves (lust, wrath, greed, attachment and ego) |
| 46% | ODD | 3 | Like the numbers one, three, and five |
| 45% | UMAMI | 5 | Fifth of the five basic tastes along with bitter, salty, sour and sweet |
| 45% | CASTAWAYS | 9 | 1960s sitcom setup, part 3: Then the five passengers and two crewmen became ___ |
| 45% | RINGS | 5 | Five __ (Olympic logo, and what's within the seven longest answers) |
| 44% | PIECES | 6 | Bits and __, 60s tune by The Dave Clark Five |
| 44% | FINALCUT | 8 | Director's demand, and the last four or five letters of each starred answer |
| 44% | TTTTTTGROUPS | 12 | The Beatles and the Dave Clark Five, in a way |
| 43% | MESSAGE | 7 | 1982 Grandmaster Flash hit 'The ___' |
| 42% | CHANGEOFHEART | 13 | Attitude shift, and the shift found in five letters in the answer to each starred clue |
| 42% | GAL | 3 | Israeli actress and model Gadot, who starred in the movie "Fast Five" |
| 41% | AUDRAMCDONALD | 13 | "Ricki and the Flash" actress who played Garderobe in 2017's "Beauty and the Beast": 2 wds. |
| 40% | COUNTDOWN | 9 | What might end the year, and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | ENOS | 4 | Son of Seth in the Old Testament who lived nine hundred and five years |
| 40% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Reversed, in a way ... and a hint to the creation of five puzzle answers |
| 40% | SEQUOIA | 7 | What is the only seven-letter word to use all five vowels and Q? |
| 40% | AEIOU | 5 | The five vowels |
| 40% | POPO | 4 | The Five-O |
| 40% | ETC | 3 | And the like |
| 39% | RAP | 3 | Grandmaster Flash's music |
| 39% | RAP | 3 | Grandmaster Flash's genre |
| 39% | ENOS | 4 | Son of Seth in the Old Testament who lived for nine hundred and five years |