| 100% | NERO | 4 | His last words were, “What an artist the world is losing in me!” |
| 100% | NERO | 4 | His last words were "What an artist the world is losing in me!" |
| 91% | NERO | 4 | His dying words were "What an artist the world is losing in me!" |
| 70% | NERO | 4 | Roman emperor who said before dying "What an artist the world is losing in me!" |
| 70% | NERO | 4 | Roman emperor who said before dying, "What an artist the world is losing in me!" |
| 47% | MEMORY | 6 | Answer to the riddle "I form in an instant and last a lifetime. What am I?" |
| 47% | CAPTAINAHAB | 11 | His last words were "Thus, I give up the spear!" |
| 43% | SINGINGTHEBLUES | 15 | What the artists of 16-, 27- and 49-Across are doing (in reference to the last words of their hits)? |
| 43% | STAMP | 5 | "I can go all around the world by staying in one corner. What am I?" |
| 42% | DRESSINGS | 9 | What the last words in 16-, 22-, 36- and 48-Across are |
| 42% | LIFT | 4 | UK word for what is an elevator in the US |
| 41% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 41% | CHECKMATE | 9 | Grandmaster's last word ... and what the last word in 17-, 24-, 36- and 52-Across can be |
| 40% | ROMEO | 5 | His last words were "Thus with a kiss I die" |
| 38% | WEST | 4 | Word after "South" for an airline that is the third-largest in the world and can take you to your travel destination |
| 38% | ALI | 3 | His last fight was dubbed the "Drama in Bahama" |
| 38% | NERO | 4 | Emperor who reportedly said "What an artist dies in me!" shortly before his death |
| 38% | BURJKHALIFA | 11 | "What am I bungeeing off of? Only the tallest building in the world.... Psych!" |
| 37% | HAMLET | 6 | His last words were "The rest is silence" |
| 36% | AHAB | 4 | Literary captain whose last words are "Thus, I give up the spear!" |
| 36% | PHRASING | 8 | The way in which an idea is expressed in words |
| 36% | MILAN | 5 | I'm a city in Italy and my nickname is "Fashion Capital of the World" |
| 36% | SPEE | 4 | Last word in the name of a WW I German warship |
| 36% | SLAIN | 5 | “O, I am ___” (Polonius’s last words, in “Hamlet”) |
| 36% | BURSTINGATTHESEAMS | 18 | Overflowing, or what the words in the circles are? |
| 35% | ALIBABA | 7 | Chinese company whose 2014 I.P.O. was the world's largest in history |
| 35% | FIELD | 5 | "Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his ___!" |
| 35% | JAMESDEAN | 9 | "Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world" speaker |
| 35% | ROSES | 5 | What Moses supposes his toeses are, in an old verse |