| 100% | SKEWS | 5 | Reports with a 56-Across |
| 72% | LIME | 4 | With 56 Across, a summer cooler |
| 68% | DND | 3 | Game with a 56-Across character class, for short |
| 65% | SLANTS | 6 | Reports with a bias |
| 63% | GOTO | 4 | With 56-Across, a Monopoly order |
| 63% | EMAIL | 5 | With 56-Across, a smartphone notification |
| 61% | BESTTHREE | 9 | With 56-Across, common format for a wager |
| 60% | THE | 3 | With 56-Across, last words of a fairy tale |
| 59% | GEISHA | 6 | Hostess with a 46 Across |
| 59% | REESE | 5 | Witherspoon with a 1 Across |
| 58% | THERESAMAY | 10 | With 39 and 56 Across, how a Tory and a pundit might differ in decisiveness |
| 58% | THROWINTHETOWEL | 15 | Call it quits ... with a hint to 17-, 23-, 48- and 56-Across |
| 58% | STARR | 5 | Kenneth with a report |
| 57% | KENNETH | 7 | Starr with a 1998 report |
| 56% | EMCINSTEMCIN | 12 | 20th-century figure with a famous 56-Across represented literally six times in this puzzle |
| 55% | BARNARDBULLETIN | 15 | College newspaper with a rustic 57 Across? |
| 55% | SHUTTERBUG | 10 | Photographry magazine with a minimalistic 57 Across? |
| 55% | IRON | 4 | With 56 Across, magnetic compound |
| 55% | BUT | 3 | With 75 Across, a gas |
| 55% | CUTTING | 7 | With 56-Across, indifferent student's practice, and a hint to the puzzle theme |
| 54% | AMAZON | 6 | Company with a major stake in 13 Across |
| 54% | KEY | 3 | With 52 Across, a Florida attraction |
| 54% | RON | 3 | With 136 Across, a rum brand |
| 54% | YES | 3 | With 89 Across, a confident assent |
| 54% | ONE | 3 | With 41 Across, a vitamin brand |
| 54% | LIFE | 4 | With 127 Across, a popular candy |
| 54% | DEMONSAREA | 10 | With 105 Across, a Halloween tune? |
| 53% | WAVES | 5 | Greets with a hand gesture from across the street |
| 53% | EMPTYCALORIES | 13 | What many junk foods contain ... with a hint to the initials of 17-, 25-, 48- and 56-Across |
| 53% | NEVERMISSAGOOD | 14 | With 56 Across, Will Rogers on discretion |