| 100% | WARANDPEACE | 11 | Pair that surrounds the other six longest answers |
| 43% | CORONA | 6 | Aura that surrounds the sun and other stars |
| 42% | TIMEKEEPERS | 11 | What the other three long answers all are |
| 41% | WIDESPREAD | 10 | What the other nine longest answers have in common |
| 41% | PALS | 4 | Friends that surround the answers to 21-, 26-, 43- and 50-Across |
| 40% | BEARINGARMS | 11 | Ready for battle, like the other long Across answers? |
| 39% | LEFTHANDER | 10 | Person whom the other long answers are specially made for |
| 39% | MISPELLED | 9 | Like the six longest answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | KEEPSANOPENMIND | 15 | What each of the other four longest answers does |
| 39% | MERITBADGE | 10 | What each of the other nine long answers is |
| 39% | MAMA | 4 | Pair present in the seven longest answers |
| 38% | PORTMANTEAU | 11 | Term for the other longest answers in the puzzle (and 92 Down) |
| 38% | FUELINJECTION | 13 | Internal combustion process, and an explanation of the other long Across answers |
| 38% | WYATTEARP | 9 | Western legend portrayed by the six longest answers |
| 38% | NOWYOUSEEITNOWYOUDONT | 21 | Magic words … or a hint to the other long answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | HOMESTRETCH | 11 | Hint to what the other nine longest answers have in common |
| 38% | GREEK | 5 | The short letters that the four longest Across answers end with |
| 38% | THREE | 5 | Word that precedes six other answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | SPREADTHIN | 10 | What's found in the other eight longest answers |
| 37% | TIME | 4 | Word that can be ''framed'' by the longest Across answers |
| 37% | TOGO | 4 | Pair in the seven longest answers |
| 36% | BACKDATES | 9 | Makes retroactive ... or what the eight other longest Across answers have |
| 36% | ELEMENTARY | 10 | Holmes' comment about the ends of the four other longest Across answers? |
| 36% | LOWHANGINGFRUIT | 15 | Easy pickings, and a hint to the four other longest Down answers |
| 36% | KITCHENMATCH | 12 | Pilot lighter, and a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 36% | POSTHASTE | 9 | With immediacy, or a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 36% | LAYERCAKE | 9 | *Dessert literally represented in six pairs of answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | RECYCLEDMETAL | 13 | Scrapyard commodity ... and what's hidden in the nine other longest puzzle answers |
| 35% | OPPOSITESATTRACT | 16 | Maxim that applies to pairs hiding together in the answers to starred clues |
| 35% | PIGLATIN | 8 | "Language" that explains the answers to the six starred clues |