| 100% | MACBETH | 7 | Source of the line "What's done is done" |
| 80% | TEMPEST | 7 | Source of the line "What's past is prologue," with "The" |
| 70% | CANDIDE | 7 | Source of the line "If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?" |
| 67% | ALLSWELLTHATENDSWELL | 20 | Source of the line "They say miracles are past" |
| 65% | HAMLET | 6 | Source of the line "Frailty, thy name is woman!" |
| 64% | PSALMS | 6 | Source of the line "The Lord is thy keeper" |
| 63% | ACTS | 4 | Book that's the source of the line "It is more blessed to give than to receive" |
| 62% | DEUT | 4 | Source of the line "Man does not live by bread alone": Abbr. |
| 61% | MATTHEW | 7 | Source of the line "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth" |
| 60% | KIPLING | 7 | Source of the line "The female of the species is more deadly than the male" |
| 60% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Source of the line "There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" |
| 60% | ANIMALFARM | 10 | Source of the line "Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend" |
| 60% | RHYME | 5 | What the lines of a limerick do |
| 59% | ACTS | 4 | Biblical source of the line "It is more blessed to give than to receive" |
| 59% | FILM | 4 | What each of this puzzle's songs also was, once you do the math |
| 59% | HOUSESTYLE | 10 | Publication's unique way of doing things ... or what each of the circled strings is? |
| 59% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |
| 59% | SLAYINGSLOW | 11 | What Buffy might be doing at the end of a long, hard night? |
| 58% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 58% | TURNRED | 7 | What the focus of a 125-Across will do at its climax |
| 56% | ISA | 3 | Erma Bombeck's "If Life ___ Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" (2 wds.) |
| 56% | ACT | 3 | Anagram of the animal in 23a which is what Ryan Reynolds does for a living |
| 56% | LOCKHERROOM | 11 | What she did to not be bothered by the rest of the family? |
| 56% | CUTTINGTHECARDS | 15 | Part of a blackjack dealer's ritual … or what this answer is doing vis-à-vis the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 55% | STOPAZOMBIE | 11 | What any of the many weapons on "The Walking Dead" is intended to do? |
| 54% | MARCH | 5 | What ants do in a line, which is also the third month on the calendar? |
| 54% | YEN | 3 | What a "Y" with a pair of horizontal lines through it is the symbol for |
| 54% | LOLLING | 7 | What the tongue of Marnie the Shih Tzu, Instagram sensation, was always doing |
| 54% | LURE | 4 | What's seen at the end of the line |