| 100% | TALLEST | 7 | Like the Burj Khalifa, of all buildings |
| 78% | TALLEST | 7 | Like the Burj Khalifa among all the buildings in the world |
| 70% | TALLEST | 7 | Like the Burj Khalifa, among buildings |
| 68% | TALLEST | 7 | Like the Burj Khalifa, as buildings go |
| 58% | DUBAI | 5 | Home of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building |
| 58% | DUBAI | 5 | Setting of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building |
| 54% | IVIED | 5 | Like the walls of some old buildings |
| 54% | IVIED | 5 | Like the walls of many campus buildings |
| 52% | WIDEST | 6 | Like the Amazon, of all rivers |
| 51% | BEST | 4 | Like the greatest of all time |
| 50% | LARGEST | 7 | Like the blue whale, out of all animals |
| 49% | DUBAI | 5 | Home of the Burj Khalifa |
| 49% | DUBAI | 5 | Arab city with the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world |
| 49% | AGLOW | 5 | Like the top of the Empire State Building at night |
| 49% | UAE | 3 | Home of the Burj Khalifa: Abbr. |
| 49% | UAE | 3 | Site of the Burj Khalifa: Abbr. |
| 49% | DUBAI | 5 | Site of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper |
| 48% | DUBAI | 5 | City that's home to the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building |
| 48% | UAE | 3 | Home of the Burj Khalifa, for short |
| 47% | HOLIEST | 7 | Like the Great Mosque of Mecca, of all Islamic shrines |
| 47% | DUBAI | 5 | Mideast city that's home to the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world |
| 46% | LARGEST | 7 | Like Jupiter, out of all the planets |
| 46% | ODD | 3 | Like the total number of socks after doing laundry, all too often |
| 46% | SYMPHONIC | 9 | Like all of the 62-Across works in this puzzle |
| 46% | MEHDEINCANADA | 13 | Like all the answers with pairs of circled letters, punnily |
| 45% | HAIRIEST | 8 | Like Cousin Itt, of all of the Addams family |
| 45% | FLOOR | 5 | One of 163 in the Burj Khalifa |
| 45% | STORY | 5 | One of 163 for the Burj Khalifa |
| 45% | NEAREST | 7 | Like Proxima Centauri, of all stars but the sun |
| 44% | DNA | 3 | Building blocks for all life, part of the life's genetic code |