| 100% | ADEN | 4 | Port visited by Polo with ''adorers of Mahommet'' |
| 40% | YOKOHAMA | 8 | Port visited by Commodore Perry |
| 33% | BROW | 4 | By the sweat of your __; with hard work |
| 32% | IZOD | 4 | Brand of shirts that competes with Polo |
| 32% | ERIE | 4 | Port with lots of lake-effect snow |
| 32% | KISSMEKATE | 10 | *1953 musical with songs by Cole Porter |
| 31% | VERACRUZ | 8 | Port city on the Gulf of Mexico founded by Cortes |
| 31% | ENDUPINLAST | 11 | With 73-Across, be beaten by the rest of the field |
| 31% | REESES | 6 | With 41-Down, composition of a trail followed by [circled letters] |
| 31% | ANDMILESTOGO | 12 | With 63-Across, ending lines of a poem by 72-Across |
| 31% | SINGLE | 6 | With 31-Across, 2010 Grammy Song of the Year by Beyoncé |
| 31% | BASSETERRE | 10 | Capital of St. Kitts, visited regularly by 17-Across |
| 31% | SULTANS | 7 | "___ of Swing," song by Dire Straits with a regal title |
| 30% | LEITH | 5 | Port on the Firth of Forth that merged with Edinburgh in 1920 |
| 30% | HISTORY | 7 | Part of the browser with every site you've visited |
| 30% | ICOULDHAVE | 10 | Beginning of a quote by Ogden Nash, with punctuation included |
| 30% | LOVESTORY | 9 | Novel by Erich Segal starts with the death of Jenny |
| 30% | EXTORTION | 9 | The act of getting things by force or with threats |
| 30% | BROBDINGNAG | 11 | *Land of giants visited by Gulliver |
| 30% | BALNIBARBI | 10 | Island of inventors visited by Gulliver |
| 30% | SHELOOKSSO | 10 | With 42-Across, 2014 debut single by 5 Seconds of Summer: 3 wds. |
| 29% | MOMBASA | 7 | City and port of Kenya served by the Moi International Airport |
| 29% | DOUBLEBOND | 10 | Molecular link with two pairs of electrons shared by two atoms |
| 29% | IDA | 3 | State with the highest % of land held by the Forest Service |
| 29% | PORKPIE | 7 | Type of hat with a flat top worn by Buster Keaton |
| 29% | CDC | 3 | Org. visited by zombie victims in season one of "The Walking Dead" (there was no cure) |
| 29% | MOCHA | 5 | Port in Yemen on the Red Sea associated with the export of Arabian coffee |
| 29% | NOBEL | 5 | With 32- and 38-Across, 2014 honor won by the writer of 15-Across |
| 29% | SOUND | 5 | With 5- and 1-Down, 2015 Album of the Year nominee by Alabama Shakes |
| 29% | DOUBLE | 6 | With 52-Down, betrayal, and what's formed by each pair of the trigrams |