| 100% | TEMPEST | 7 | Source of the line "What's past is prologue," with "The" |
| 65% | MACBETH | 7 | Source of the line "What's done is done" |
| 63% | ALLSWELLTHATENDSWELL | 20 | Source of the line "They say miracles are past" |
| 57% | CANDIDE | 7 | Source of the line "If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?" |
| 53% | YEN | 3 | What a "Y" with a pair of horizontal lines through it is the symbol for |
| 53% | ONION | 5 | Source of the headline "Study Reveals: Babies Are Stupid," with "The" |
| 53% | HAMLET | 6 | Source of the line "Frailty, thy name is woman!" |
| 51% | PSALMS | 6 | Source of the line "The Lord is thy keeper" |
| 51% | ACTS | 4 | Source of the line "Thy money perish with thee" |
| 51% | ACTS | 4 | Book that's the source of the line "It is more blessed to give than to receive" |
| 51% | STAR | 4 | With 56-Down, series that's the source of the movie line in the circles |
| 49% | MATTHEW | 7 | Source of the line "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth" |
| 48% | KIPLING | 7 | Source of the line "The female of the species is more deadly than the male" |
| 48% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Source of the line "There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" |
| 48% | ANIMALFARM | 10 | Source of the line "Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend" |
| 48% | FISHHEADS | 9 | 1978 novelty song with the line "Eat them up! Yum!" ... and what both parts of the answers to starred clues can be |
| 48% | ONION | 5 | Source of the headline "World's Youngest Person Born," with "The" |
| 48% | ACTS | 4 | Biblical source of the line "It is more blessed to give than to receive" |
| 47% | BELOVED | 7 | 1987 novel with the opening lines “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom” |
| 46% | CACAO | 5 | With 3-Down, its seeds are the source of chocolate |
| 46% | ARAL | 4 | With 45-Across, what was once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water |
| 45% | CLUBSANDWICH | 12 | Order served with toothpicks ... and what each of the other four longest answers is? |
| 45% | MULBERRY | 8 | Tree with an edible fruit whose leaves are the sole food source of the silkworm |
| 44% | III | 3 | “Richard ___” (play with the opening line “Now is the winter of our discontent”) |
| 44% | LURE | 4 | What's seen at the end of the line |
| 43% | POPE | 4 | Source of the line "Hope springs eternal ..." |
| 43% | POEM | 4 | Verse composition like "Monday's Child" with the line "Wednesday's child is full of woe," which inspired the name of the character |
| 43% | CITIZENKANE | 11 | Movie with the line "Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of" |
| 43% | KIDS | 4 | With 70- and 71-Across, what the middle of this puzzle is |
| 43% | TRADE | 5 | With 38-Across, what the four key parts of this puzzle are |