| 100% | GASEOUS | 7 | Like four of the eight planets |
| 53% | LEAVENED | 8 | Unlike bread on Passover, and like four of the five sets of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 52% | LARGEST | 7 | Like Jupiter, out of all the planets |
| 51% | EIGHTH | 6 | Like Neptune, in the list of planets |
| 49% | RAREST | 6 | Like triples, among the four types of hits in baseball |
| 49% | RRATED | 6 | Like eight of the last ten Best Picture winners |
| 49% | RATEDR | 6 | Like eight of the last ten Best Picture winners |
| 49% | NOTFITFORTHEJOB | 15 | Like the start of four long answers, vis-à-vis its answer? |
| 48% | CUTTINGCORNERS | 14 | FOUR OF THE EARTH |
| 47% | NOHIT | 5 | Like eight games of the 2021 baseball season (Hyph.) |
| 46% | EDGES | 5 | Sides, like the four of a square |
| 46% | RACES | 5 | Four of the 10 decathlon events |
| 46% | RATEDR | 6 | Like eight of the past ten films to win the Best Picture Oscar |
| 46% | ALIS | 4 | Four of the 12 imams of Shia |
| 46% | ROMANS | 6 | Four of the Bard's title characters |
| 45% | CANNOTBEPUTDOWN | 15 | Part four of the brainteaser |
| 45% | ALIS | 4 | Four of the 12 Imams of Shia Islam |
| 45% | ASTRONOMY | 9 | Science of the stars and planets |
| 45% | BEET | 4 | One of the eight V8 vegetables |
| 44% | URANIAN | 7 | Of the seventh planet |
| 44% | TOMATOES | 8 | Of the eight original V8 ingredients, the main one |
| 44% | SIDEARM | 7 | Like some baseball pitches ... and a hint to locating the second part of four three-part puzzle answers |
| 44% | RRS | 3 | Four of the properties on a Monopoly board: Abbr. |
| 44% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 44% | SIDE | 4 | One of the eight on an Octagon |
| 44% | ALA | 3 | One of the eight states bordering Tenn. |
| 44% | SPECIES | 7 | Lowest of the eight major taxonomic ranks |
| 44% | ODIN | 4 | Rider of the eight-legged horse Sleipnir |
| 44% | GAG | 3 | Joke inside four of the Across answers |
| 44% | CANADIAN | 8 | Like some of the Rockies |