| 100% | RATEDNC17 | 9 | Like the film "Henry & June" (and this puzzle) |
| 52% | MISPELLED | 9 | Like the six longest answers in this puzzle |
| 52% | NOTUPTOPAR | 10 | Like the duffer in this puzzle? |
| 52% | PERSONAL | 8 | Like the 52-Across featured in this puzzle |
| 51% | DIRECTEDBYIN/YANGLEE | 20 | Like the 1995 film "Sense and Sensibility" |
| 51% | DOE | 3 | Jane ___ (unknown, like the author of this puzzle) |
| 51% | APPEARED | 8 | Showed up, like the fruits in this puzzle |
| 50% | SPUNAROUND | 10 | Like the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 50% | AQUATIC | 7 | Like the five animals in this puzzle's theme |
| 50% | FLIPFLOPPED | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 50% | MOVEDAROUND | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 50% | OUTOFORDER | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 50% | REARRANGED | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 50% | HALFBAKED | 9 | Like the answers to this puzzle's 12 asterisked clues? |
| 50% | MISSING | 7 | Like the letter O in this puzzle’s entire solution |
| 49% | MISDIRECTED | 11 | Led astray ... or like the films at 19-, 25-, 40- and 57-Across? |
| 48% | GABLE | 5 | Another co-star of the film hidden in this puzzle |
| 48% | SERPENTINE | 10 | Snaking, like the arrangement of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 48% | STARSTUDDED | 11 | Like the Oscars ... or the answers to this puzzle's seven asterisked clues? |
| 48% | INTERCHANGEABLE | 15 | Like the parts of this puzzle's toy, as depicted throughout the grid |
| 47% | FALLINGDOWN | 11 | Like the contents of this puzzle's circled squares, in a nursery rhyme |
| 47% | HIDDEN | 6 | Like the identified car models inside this puzzle's long answers |
| 47% | ANAIS | 5 | Henry and June's friend, in a 1990 film |
| 46% | NIN | 3 | Writer Anaïs portrayed in the film "Henry & June" |
| 46% | BOP | 3 | Catchy song, slangily, like the ones mentioned in the theme of this puzzle |
| 46% | FRANKCAPRA | 10 | Born May 18, 1897, he directed all the films named in this puzzle |
| 45% | LATERALSYMMETRY | 15 | Feature of this puzzle's grid and the answers to the six starred clues |
| 45% | GREASE | 6 | Danny and Sandy did the Hand Jive in this film |
| 45% | PEOPLEOFNOTE | 12 | Luminaries like the eight featured in this puzzle? (hint: look at their first few letters) |
| 45% | SALT | 4 | Theme of this puzzle, found in the answers to 21-, 26-, 44- and 52-Across |