| 100% | ANCHORAGE | 9 | Period dominated by the likes of Dan Rather and Peter Jennings? |
| 45% | NEWSMEN | 7 | Dan Rather and Peter Jennings |
| 34% | TEA | 3 | Popular beverage sold by the likes of Tetley |
| 34% | RIVERS | 6 | "___ of Babylon," song by Boney M. ... or water bodies like the Nile and Ganges |
| 33% | TEA | 3 | A popular beverage made by the likes of Tetley |
| 33% | TEA | 3 | A popular, non-alcoholic brew made by the likes of Tetley |
| 32% | BRONZEAGE | 9 | Period marked by the smelting of copper |
| 32% | ADFREE | 6 | Not interrupted by commercials ... or shortened like the middle words of 20-, 30-, 48- and 60-Across? |
| 31% | WRINKLEFREE | 11 | Like a shirt condition suggested by the ends of 16-, 27- and 46-Across |
| 31% | GOLDENAGE | 9 | Period followed by the silver and bronze eras |
| 30% | WWE | 3 | Sports entertainment company associated with the likes of Yokozuna and Hulk Hogan: Abbr. |
| 30% | CHINESE | 7 | Like gunpowder and the seismometer, by origin |
| 29% | MORNING | 7 | The period of time between midnight and noon |
| 29% | ALGIERS | 7 | The Women of __, works by Picasso and Delacroix |
| 29% | EASYRIDER | 9 | Road drama film written and produced by Peter Fonda (birthday today) which also stars Dennis Hopper as one of the two bikers: 2 wds. |
| 29% | GREENAWAY | 9 | Peter —, director of films The Belly of an Architect and Drowning by Numbers |
| 29% | THEMONTHOFMARCH | 15 | Period described by the clues and answers to 1- and 72-Across (which are the start and end of a word ladder formed by the answers to the 10 asterisked clues) |
| 29% | ORANJESTAD | 10 | Name shared by the capital cities of Aruba and Saint Eustatius |
| 29% | PIOUS | 5 | Like a huge fan of ministry and the church |
| 29% | ERAS | 4 | The Napoleonic and Victorian periods of history, for example |
| 29% | PROKOFIEV | 9 | Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf |
| 29% | PROKOFIEV | 9 | Sergei __, composer of Peter and the Wolf |
| 29% | BAROQUE | 7 | Like the works of Handel and Bach |
| 29% | ONETERM | 7 | Like the presidencies of Taft and Hoover |
| 29% | NORSE | 5 | Like the mythology of Odin and Thor |
| 29% | TRAGIC | 6 | Like the ending of "Romeo and Juliet" |
| 29% | MACABRE | 7 | Like the realm of Poe and Lovecraft |
| 29% | SHIA | 4 | Like the majority of Iraqis and Bahrainis |
| 28% | DEM | 3 | Rule by the people, for the people and of the people: ___ocracy |