| 100% | ANDREWCARNEGIE | 14 | Offerer of $5.2 million for 65 Big Apple libraries (3/12/1901) |
| 33% | NYPOST | 6 | Big Apple paper known for its outrageous headlines: 2 wds. |
| 32% | PRIMES | 6 | 2, 3, and 5, for example |
| 32% | FACTOR | 6 | 2, 3, 4 or 6, for 12 |
| 31% | MEAN | 4 | 3, for the set [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
| 30% | OSU | 3 | The Cowboys of the Big 12, for short |
| 30% | IOWASTATE | 9 | The Cyclones of the Big 12 Conference: 2 wds. |
| 30% | NYPOST | 6 | Big Apple paper, for short (2 wds.) |
| 29% | RECORDINGS | 10 | The Library of Congress has over 3.6 million of them |
| 29% | ABC | 3 | It's easy as 1, 2, 3, for the Jackson 5 |
| 29% | VINCENTVANGOGH | 14 | Dutch artist whose "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" sold at auction for a record $82.5 million in 1990: 3 wds. |
| 29% | MRMET | 5 | Big Apple mascot named for his team (2 wds.) |
| 29% | LINCOLNCENTER | 13 | Big Apple performing arts locale now on the site where some of 15-Across was filmed: 2 wds. |
| 29% | ISLAM | 5 | Faith of 5 1/2 million Americans |
| 29% | NEWYORK | 7 | The Big Apple, which is home to the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame: 2 wds. |
| 29% | PAR | 3 | It's usually 3, 4, or 5 for a hole of golf |
| 29% | SYL | 3 | Unit of pronunciation, for short (23a has 3 and 47a has 2) |
| 28% | FIBONACCI | 9 | Eponym of a number series that begins 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ... |
| 27% | IBADAN | 6 | Nigerian city of 3.5+ million |
| 27% | ALEPPO | 6 | Syrian city of 2.5+ million |
| 27% | OKLAHOMACITY | 12 | "___ Thunder," basketball club that paid 3 million Euros for Nenad Krstic in 2008: 2 wds. |
| 27% | TCU | 3 | The Horned Frogs of the N.C.A.A.’s Big 12 Conference, for short |
| 27% | MEAN | 4 | 2.5, for the set {1, 2, 3, 4} |
| 27% | DURBAN | 6 | South African city of 2.5+ million |
| 27% | NYT | 3 | Big Apple newspaper, for short |
| 27% | NYT | 3 | Big Apple paper, for short |
| 27% | YANK | 4 | Big Apple ballplayer, for short |
| 27% | NYMET | 5 | Big Apple baseballer, for short |
| 27% | NYPOST | 6 | Big Apple tabloid, for short |
| 27% | NYPD | 4 | Big apple cops, for short |