| 100% | AULDLANGSYNE | 12 | Seasonal title made of two-letter resolutions of the long Across answers |
| 51% | SCALE | 5 | What the four longest Across answers each have two parts of |
| 47% | TWENTYANDITSMULTIPLES | 21 | What four of the longest Across answers include (almost) |
| 47% | DEES | 4 | Low grades, and the initials of the long Across answers |
| 46% | ABCDF | 5 | Tripled letters in the longest Across answers |
| 45% | LOSSLEADERS | 11 | Retail come-ons ... and what the starts of the longest Across answers can be? |
| 45% | END | 3 | With 72-Across, evasive strategy ... and a hint to the last several letters of the four longest Across answers |
| 43% | GREEK | 5 | The short letters that the four longest Across answers end with |
| 43% | BACKDATES | 9 | Makes retroactive ... or what the eight other longest Across answers have |
| 41% | WITHINSIGHT | 11 | Visible ... or, literally, where most inner letters of this puzzle's eight other longest Across answers are situated |
| 41% | FUELINJECTION | 13 | Internal combustion process, and an explanation of the other long Across answers |
| 41% | EIEIO | 5 | "Old MacDonald" refrain, and a feature of the five longest Across answers |
| 41% | ELEMENTARY | 10 | Holmes' comment about the ends of the four other longest Across answers? |
| 41% | YIDDISH | 7 | Source of the six longest Across answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | NEWS | 4 | First letters of the words hidden in the four longest answers |
| 40% | THREE | 5 | The number of letters in this answer minus two |
| 40% | GOODPOINT | 9 | "Your argument makes sense," and a feature of the ends of four Across answers |
| 40% | PINACOLADA | 10 | What I'm going to have after I've finished writing these clues and it's spelled out with the first two letters of five of the longest puzzle answers |
| 40% | HEADLIGHTS | 10 | They're at the front of a car, and the other four longest Across answers |
| 39% | POL | 3 | Campaigner found in the fronts of words of the four long Across answers |
| 39% | MOVIETRAILER | 12 | Preview ... and what the ending letters of the four other longest answers comprise? |
| 39% | FINALE | 6 | What's spelled by the last letters of the six long Across phrases |
| 39% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 39% | HIDEINPLAINSIGHT | 16 | What words concealed by the other four longest Across answers do ... and also, what each of them is |
| 39% | NOTHINGINCOMMON | 15 | Lack of similar interests, and what the three long answers with circled letters have? |
| 39% | ELEVEN | 6 | How many letters are in the longest answers in this puzzle - or how many of these answers there are |
| 38% | DODO | 4 | What the longest Across answers all contain |
| 38% | ANIMALHOUSE | 11 | Raucous frat film, and a hint to the starts of the other four long Across answers |
| 38% | TOE | 3 | Stocking stuffer found in the long Across answers |
| 38% | HIDDENGEMS | 10 | What the long Across answers with circles have |