| 100% | ALLUDE | 6 | Hint at, with "to" |
| 100% | ALLUDES | 7 | Hints at, with "to" |
| 83% | TWODRINKMAX | 11 | Limit at the bar, and a hint to the answers with circles |
| 81% | RIGHTTURN | 9 | With 55-Down, sign at some corners, and a hint to four places in this grid |
| 78% | ODDS | 4 | At __ with; opposed to |
| 76% | TOP | 3 | With 39-Across, refill to capacity ... or a hint to interpreting the clues at 17-, 27-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 75% | ALLUDE | 6 | Hint at, make an indirect reference to |
| 74% | ODDS | 4 | At __ with; not speaking to |
| 69% | DISDAIN | 7 | To look at something with scorn, contempt |
| 69% | ADMIRE | 6 | To look at something with pleasure, approval |
| 69% | NAVAL | 5 | To do with the military at sea |
| 68% | QUEERBAIT | 9 | Hint at L.G.B.T.Q.+ story lines to generate buzz |
| 68% | SCAN | 4 | To look very closely at; rhymes with plan |
| 67% | ALLUDE | 6 | Drive at, with "to" |
| 67% | CLARINET | 8 | With 59-Across, hint to this puzzle's secret |
| 67% | BASEBALL | 8 | With 49-Across, a hint to the circled letters |
| 66% | CLIPPED | 7 | With 42 Across, prepared to save at the grocery |
| 66% | SLAG | 4 | Refuse to deal with at a foundry? |
| 65% | YMCA | 4 | Hit song literally hinted at by the answers to the starred clues |
| 65% | BIRD | 4 | With 41-Across, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 65% | EASY | 4 | With 6-Across and 4-Down, pleasant to look at |
| 65% | ITS | 3 | With 9-Down, response to a knock at the door |
| 65% | WIDE | 4 | With 6-Across, not at all likely to nod off |
| 65% | OMNI | 4 | Prefix with "present" to mean "everywhere at once" |
| 65% | OMNI | 4 | Prefix with "present" to mean everywhere at once |
| 65% | BAE | 3 | Person to make out with at the mall |
| 64% | CUT | 3 | With the circled letters, a hint to solving seven Across clues |
| 64% | THREEMUSKETEERS | 15 | Group with a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 64% | NATIONALPASTIME | 15 | Baseball ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 64% | UPSET | 5 | Sports shocker … with a hint to the circled letters |