| 100% | CLINTON | 7 | Politician with the memoirs "Hard Choices" and "What Happened" |
| 64% | CLINTON | 7 | Politician with the 2017 memoir "What Happened" |
| 51% | CLIMATECHANGE | 13 | Existential ecological concern, and what's happening with the cross-referenced answers |
| 46% | ROVE | 4 | Politico with the memoir "Courage and Consequence" |
| 44% | SUBCONTRACTED | 13 | Outsourced, and what happened to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 43% | ALDAMATO | 8 | Former senator with the memoir "Power, Pasta and Politics" |
| 42% | INNERDEMONS | 11 | Personal struggles, and what the answers with circles have |
| 42% | PRIZEINSIDE | 11 | Cracker Jack extra, and what the answers with circles have |
| 42% | HILLARYCLINTON | 14 | Politician whose "What Happened" won a 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Memoir & Autobiography (2 wds.) |
| 41% | PINK | 4 | Singer with the hits "Get the Party Started" and "So What" |
| 41% | OMAR | 4 | Congresswoman with the 2020 memoir “This Is What America Looks Like” |
| 41% | STOCKEXCHANGE | 13 | Wall Street site, and what happened in order to form the answers to the starred clues? |
| 41% | ANI | 3 | Singer DiFranco with the 2019 memoir "No Walls and the Recurring Dream" |
| 41% | ALDAMATO | 8 | Bygone Brooklyn-born senator with the memoir “Power, Pasta, and Politics” |
| 41% | PALATE | 6 | The roof of the mouth, with soft and hard areas |
| 40% | PADMA | 5 | Lakshmi who wrote the memoir "Love, Loss, and What We Ate" |
| 40% | DOOMSCROLLING | 13 | Habit of incessantly reading bad news online, and what's happening in the circles |
| 40% | OUTOF | 5 | Lacking, and what can go with each word in the answers to starred clues |
| 40% | NOTHINGINCOMMON | 15 | Lack of similar interests, and what the three long answers with circled letters have? |
| 40% | NAYA | 4 | Actress Rivera with the upcoming memoir "Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up" |
| 39% | SEASONEDVETERANS | 16 | Experienced spice purveyors? And, with experience, what the inexperienced can become |
| 39% | NIGHT | 5 | With 55-Down, what happens multilingually in the circles |
| 38% | ACUTABOVE | 9 | Superior to ... and what can go with the starts of 3-, 7-, 9- and 24-Down |
| 38% | RIDESHARING | 11 | Service offered by 18-Down, and what's happening in the answers to the starred clues |
| 38% | SPREADEM | 8 | Cop's order before frisking, and what to do with the starts of the starred answers |
| 38% | HEADLIGHT | 9 | Night driving need, and what can go with the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 38% | SOAKUPTHESUN | 12 | 2002 summer anthem from Sheryl Crow, and what the answers with circles do, in two ways |
| 38% | MEET | 4 | What to do with the Parents, Dave, and Joe Black |
| 38% | ANDERSON | 8 | Journalist Cooper who co-wrote the memoir "The Rainbow Comes and Goes" with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt |
| 38% | TAILLIGHT | 9 | Rear warning lamp, and what can go with the end of each answer to a starred clue |