| 100% | RIDDLER | 7 | He asks Batman, "What's black and blue and dead all over?" in The Batman |
| 49% | NEWSPAPER | 9 | What's black and white and read all over? |
| 49% | ORCA | 4 | What's black and white and wet all over? |
| 45% | ORCA | 4 | What's black and white and a threat all over? |
| 41% | IOANE | 5 | Rieko and Akira —, brothers who play for the All Blacks and the Blues in Super Rugby |
| 39% | ORCA | 4 | It's black and white and wet all over |
| 38% | WETTER | 6 | What the Dakotas, Minnesota and Michigan all were in 2019, weatherwise |
| 38% | RAD | 3 | What the Dead Kennedys and Minor Threat were to skateboarders in the '80s |
| 38% | BREAKINGBAD | 11 | #3 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time (as of 2016) ... and a hint to what the black squares are doing in four rows of this puzzle |
| 37% | HUMOR | 5 | What physician Hunter Doherty Adams brings to orphans, patients, and others all over the world |
| 36% | JETS | 4 | What Jacuzzis, airports and the N.F.L. all have in common |
| 36% | ROYALFLUSH | 10 | What's hidden at the ends of 17-, 23-, 29-, 43- and 47-Across--if all are in, say, 38-Across |
| 36% | BREAKRANKS | 10 | Deviate from one's group, and what the black squares in rows 3, 5, 8 and 11 do |
| 35% | FATJOE | 6 | What's Luv and All the Way Up rapper |
| 34% | FLOUNDER | 8 | Blue fish and Ariel's friend in The Little Mermaid |
| 34% | BROOKE | 6 | Zinzan ___, former New Zealand rugby player who played for the All Blacks and Auckland Blues |
| 34% | APOLLO | 6 | He's aka Loxias and Phoebus in The Eumenides |
| 33% | PAUL | 4 | He played Edward in The Batman |
| 33% | DANAI | 5 | Gurira who played a warrior in both Black Panther and The Walking Dead |
| 33% | HAVEACASE | 9 | Be justified in pressing a suit, and what the starred answers all do |
| 33% | SALESPROMOTIONS | 15 | Marketing strategies, and what the mascots in this puzzle have all been given? |
| 33% | SEANHUGHES | 10 | Stand-up comedian and actor, author of novels It's What He Would've Wanted and The Detainees, who died in 2017 |
| 33% | PAST | 4 | "That's all in the ___" ("I'm over it") |
| 33% | COMES | 5 | What's between here and the sun, in song? |
| 33% | BACKSTREETS | 11 | Springsteen song, and what's contained in the circles |
| 32% | LOOSECHANGE | 11 | Pocket money ... and what's in the puzzle's circles? |
| 32% | UNITED | 6 | What the U.S. and U.K. have in common? |
| 32% | OUTS | 4 | "He knew all the ins and ___ of the place" |
| 32% | THEDEEPEND | 10 | *Where to dive in a pool ... and what the answers to starred clues all share? |
| 32% | INOUTLIST | 9 | Catalog of what's trendy and what's not in the new year |