| 100% | BLUE | 4 | Shade that the sky and the sea have in common |
| 51% | ICBM | 4 | Weapon the USA and N Korea have in common |
| 51% | DRAWL | 5 | Something that Lucas Black and Reese Witherspoon have in common |
| 51% | HORN | 4 | Something that a ram and a Ram have in common |
| 48% | UNITED | 6 | What the U.S. and U.K. have in common? |
| 47% | DUI | 3 | Something that Sally Struthers, Kiefer Sutherland and Dick Cheney have in common (abbr.) |
| 47% | BRIDGES | 7 | Hollywood family name ... and what the answers to starred clues have in common |
| 47% | FAKENEWS | 8 | Inaccurate information, and what the starred answers have in common |
| 46% | PATHFINDERS | 11 | Explorers ... and ones who can determine what the answers to starred clues have in common? |
| 46% | MIDDLEEAR | 9 | Anvil setting, and what the long song titles have in common |
| 46% | BOARD | 5 | "Across the ___," common phrase meaning "affecting everything and everyone in a particular group," that has its origins in horse racing |
| 45% | WHISKERS | 8 | Cats and sea lions have these in common |
| 45% | GAS | 3 | What the sun and Sunoco have in common |
| 45% | STARS | 5 | What Broadway and the Milky Way have in common |
| 45% | HRS | 3 | Personnel depts., and what the personnel in 20-, 31-, 40- and 50-Across have in common |
| 45% | PIZZA | 5 | Popular pie, and what the ends of 17-, 30-, 45- and 61-Across have in common |
| 45% | SHOWERTHOUGHTS | 14 | Mundane musings, or what the last words of 20-, 32-, and 39-Across have in common? |
| 44% | FLAN | 4 | Dessert name that has different meanings in the UK and US |
| 44% | CHANGINGDIAPERS | 15 | New father's task, maybe ... and what the three other longest puzzle answers have in common? |
| 43% | JETS | 4 | What Jacuzzis, airports and the N.F.L. all have in common |
| 43% | DATINGAPP | 9 | Mobile download for single people, and what the starts of 18-, 24-, 37- and 54-Across have in common |
| 43% | ACAI | 4 | Antioxidant-rich purple berry that became popular in the 2000s and is now common in breakfast bowls |
| 43% | MCGOUGH | 7 | Roger —, poet whose volumes include Sky in the Pie and That Awkward Age |
| 42% | ORD | 3 | River in Western Australia that flows north to Cambridge Gulf and the Timor Sea |
| 42% | LIMO | 4 | Car that might have ice buckets and bottles of champagne in the back seat |
| 42% | VAPORTRAILS | 11 | What airplanes leave in the sky ... or what 17-, 23-, 37- and 48-Across have? |
| 41% | WNBA | 4 | The Sun and the Sky are in it: Abbr. |
| 41% | CACTI | 5 | Plural for a plant that grows in the desert, has spikes, and holds water |
| 41% | DEE | 3 | River in North Wales and Cheshire that flows to the Irish Sea |
| 41% | DOTCOM | 6 | Business that may have gone boom and then bust in the '90s |