| 100% | IHAVEADREAM | 11 | Repeated phrase in 38-Across's speech at the 17-Across |
| 52% | ROYALFLUSH | 10 | What's hidden at the ends of 17-, 23-, 29-, 43- and 47-Across--if all are in, say, 38-Across |
| 50% | RING | 4 | "Let freedom ___" (repeated phrase in the 30-Across speech) |
| 45% | LETFREEDOMRING | 14 | Repeated phrase in Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 45% | MAKEITRAIN | 10 | Repeated phrase in the coda of James Taylor's "Shower the People" |
| 44% | LETFREEDOMRING | 14 | Repeated phrase in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 41% | OHMYDARLING | 11 | Repeated phrase in the chorus of a classic folk ballad |
| 40% | CHURCHILL | 9 | 23-Across's representative in the 38-Across |
| 40% | ROOSEVELT | 9 | 52-Across's representative in the 38-Across |
| 39% | CASTAVOTE | 9 | What many Americans will do on 17-Across (as hinted at by highlighting all the V's in this puzzle's answer) |
| 39% | THISLITTLEPIGGY | 15 | Repeated phrase in a children's verse |
| 39% | DOSEQUIS | 8 | Beer brand whose logo hints at the answers to 17-, 19-, 38-, 43- and 61-Across |
| 39% | ELECTRICCAR | 11 | One is parked at the starts of 17- and 38-Across and 11- and 28-Down |
| 39% | BERNARD | 7 | With 38-Across, boxer who won the WBA Super light heavyweight championship at 49 in 2014 |
| 39% | MAKEENDSMEAT | 12 | Summary of the phonetic puns at 17-, 31-, 38- and 45-Across? |
| 38% | TVDETECTIVE | 11 | What each of the characters named at the ends of 17-, 24-, 38- and 48-Across is |
| 38% | VOICEPRINCE | 11 | The guy at Buckingham Palace who's in charge of identifying visitors through speech recognition? |
| 38% | SEUSS | 5 | Author of the books quoted at 17-, 29-, 38-, 46- and 59-Across |
| 37% | CURLINGBONSPIEL | 15 | Athletic tournament hinted at by the first words in 17-, 23-, 48-, and 60-Across |
| 37% | ANAPHORA | 8 | Repetition of words at the starts of successive phrases, in rhetoric |
| 37% | SEEINGSTARS | 11 | In pain, and what you're doing for the answers to 17- and 38-Across and 11- and 29-Down |
| 37% | WATERBREAK | 10 | Time for a drink at the gym... or what can literally be seen in 17-, 24-, 35- and 49-Across |
| 37% | MEI | 3 | ___ Lan (giant panda born at the 17-Across zoo) |
| 37% | CHILDSTOYS | 10 | Bearers of a phrase suggested by saying the starts of 17-, 24-, 38- and 49-Across |
| 37% | SEEME | 5 | Repeated lyric in the Who's "Tommy" |
| 37% | UNMATED | 7 | Still in the 17-Across |
| 36% | TONGUETIED | 10 | At a loss for words, and what the starts of 17-, 23-, 38- and 47-Across can literally be? |
| 36% | NOR | 3 | Repeated word in the U.S. postal creed |
| 36% | BARITONES | 9 | Singing voices in the 17-Across |
| 36% | SOPRANO | 7 | Singing voice in the 17-Across |