| 100% | MAGICEIGHTBALL | 14 | Provider of the answers at 16-, 32- and 37-Across |
| 55% | BACKBURNER | 10 | Place for a nonurgent issue, and what can be found at the end of 16-, 24-, 37-, or 53- Across? |
| 48% | HEADLIGHTS | 10 | They're at the front of a car, and the other four longest Across answers |
| 45% | USOPENS | 7 | Annual tournaments ... or a description of the starts of 16-, 20-, 37-, 53- and 60-Across? |
| 45% | ANON | 4 | Author of the quip at 20-, 37-, 51-, 66-, 20-, 37-, and 51-Across |
| 45% | TUCKEDINBED | 11 | Put to rest, or what the answers to the clues at 17-, 23-, 37- and 49-Across are |
| 43% | MAIL | 4 | With 37-Across, perform perfunctorily … or a hint to the ends of 16-, 25-, 41- and 55-Across |
| 43% | WORKMATE | 8 | Colleague ... and, when preceded by "the," what the end of 16-, 24-, 37- or 50-Across is |
| 42% | THEWIZARDOFOZ | 13 | Provider of the first words of 29-, 38- and 45-Across |
| 42% | PUBLICUTILITIES | 15 | Providers of the necessities that end 17-, 26- and 46-Across |
| 42% | TONIGHTSHOWHOST | 15 | TV personality hidden in the answers to 16-, 22-, 32-, 41- and 47-Across |
| 42% | DAVIDGRANN | 10 | American journalist who wrote "Killers of the Flower Moon," "The Wager," and the works that inspired 16-Across and 32-Across (2 wds.) |
| 42% | CHUCKNORRIS | 11 | Celebrity hinted at by the ends of 30-, 32- and 36-Across |
| 42% | SITE | 4 | ___-specific (like the answers at 1-, 41- and 73-Across) |
| 41% | CAPTAIN | 7 | With 37-Across, title for the hidden individuals in 16-, 23-, 46-, and 58-Across, thanks to the circles in each answer? |
| 41% | COINFLIPS | 9 | Starts of some games ... and of the answers to 16-, 22-, 48 and 56-Across? |
| 41% | LEAK | 4 | Anonymous disclosure, and a problem at the end of each starred answer |
| 41% | MOCKTAIL | 8 | Nonalcoholic mixed drink … or a hint to the synonyms found at the ends of 16-, 24-, 37- and 51-Across |
| 41% | MARX | 4 | Surname of the stars of 20-, 37- and 53-Across |
| 40% | ALLIN | 5 | With 35- and 37-Across, how to answer the starred clues |
| 40% | STALEMATERIAL | 13 | Dated jokes ... and what the ends of four Across answers are, in a way |
| 40% | BEARFRUIT | 9 | Be productive ... or what the answers at 17-, 25-, 53- and 63-Across do? |
| 39% | BROKENPROMISE | 13 | Moral lapse that is reflected literally by the answers at 17-, 24-, 46- and 54-Across |
| 39% | FASHIONDESIGNER | 15 | One can be found in each of the answers to 17-, 24-, 54- and 63-Across |
| 39% | MARIAHCAREY | 11 | Chanteuse with chart-topping hits found at the tops of 4-, 14-, 16- and 19-Down |
| 39% | OFFTHEWALL | 10 | Bizarre, and what the ends of 16-, 22-, 37-, and 49-Across are when redecorating |
| 39% | CIVILRIGHTS | 11 | Cause championed by the figures named at the ends of 16-, 22- and 47-Across |
| 39% | VOLLEYBALL | 10 | Sport whose terms begin the answers at 15-, 20-, and 48-Across |
| 39% | MAKEENDSMEAT | 12 | Summary of the phonetic puns at 17-, 31-, 38- and 45-Across? |
| 38% | FISH | 4 | Use the items found at the ends of the answers to 20-, 31-, 47- and 56-Across |