| 100% | AHOY | 4 | How Alexander Graham Bell suggested the telephone should be answered |
| 55% | AHOY | 4 | What Alexander Graham Bell suggested as the standard telephone-answering greeting |
| 46% | AHOY | 4 | Greeting suggested by Alexander Graham Bell as the standard for telephone calls |
| 43% | TELEPHONE | 9 | Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent it |
| 35% | ALEXANDER | 9 | __ Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876 |
| 34% | ALEXANDER | 9 | Inventor of the telephone: __ Graham Bell |
| 31% | BYACCIDENT | 10 | How all the theme answers were invented or discovered |
| 31% | TELEPHONE | 9 | Said to be Alexander Graham Bell's invention |
| 31% | MELVILLE | 8 | Alexander ___ Bell, inventor of visible speech who is the father of telephone inventor Graham Bell |
| 31% | MADETHERIGHTCALL | 16 | Initially, Alexander Graham Bell's invention failed to connect with the public, but in the end he... |
| 30% | TELEPHONE | 9 | This was invented by Alexander Graham Bell |
| 30% | TAKEOUTFOOD | 11 | Alternative to home cooking, or what should be done to the answers with circles |
| 29% | BACKWARD | 8 | How the answers to the italicized clues must be entered into this puzzle |
| 29% | OUTMUSCLED | 10 | Overpowered ... or how the Across answers with circles might be described? |
| 29% | SCOT | 4 | Alexander Graham Bell, by birth |
| 29% | SCOT | 4 | Alexander Graham Bell, for one |
| 29% | TELEPHONE | 9 | Alexander Graham Bell's invention |
| 29% | TELEPHONE | 9 | Alexander Graham Bell invented this |
| 29% | ITGOESUPANDDOWN | 15 | How life is like the ocean, or a hint to entering the starred answers |
| 29% | DOUBLEORNOTHING | 15 | High-stakes gamble, and how the answers with circles can be read |
| 28% | TEL | 3 | Alexander Graham Bell invented it, for short |
| 28% | TEL | 3 | Alexander Graham Bell's invention, for short |
| 28% | EDINBURGH | 9 | Birthplace of Alexander Graham Bell |
| 28% | NEAT | 4 | How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues |
| 28% | SHORTTERM | 9 | Temporary ... and how both ends of the answers to starred clues might be described |
| 28% | TELEPHONE | 9 | Device invented by Alexander Graham Bell |
| 28% | INVENTORS | 9 | Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell |
| 27% | MARJORIE | 8 | Hit single from 52-Across with the lyrics "I should've asked you how to be" |
| 27% | SEANCONNERY | 11 | Classic 111-Across portrayer, whose iconic accent is suggested by the answers to the italicized clues |
| 27% | ELEVEN | 6 | How many letters are in the longest answers in this puzzle - or how many of these answers there are |