| 100% | EFS | 3 | Start and end of a faceoff? |
| 79% | ABRA | 4 | Start and end of a magician's cry |
| 76% | NEST | 4 | Start and end of many a flight |
| 63% | SCHWAS | 6 | Start and end of 3-Down, phonetically |
| 63% | LONGO | 5 | Start and end of ''O Sole Mio'' |
| 63% | IYAM | 4 | Start and end of Popeye's credo |
| 63% | ALL | 3 | Start and end of the Musketeers' motto |
| 62% | ALL | 3 | Start and end of the Three Musketeers' motto |
| 62% | ASH | 3 | Beginning and end of a phoenix |
| 61% | IYAM | 4 | Start and end of Popeye's credo (2 wds.) |
| 61% | IYAM | 4 | Start and end of Popeye's catchphrase (2 wds.) |
| 61% | TAOS | 4 | Start and end of the Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway |
| 61% | ALPHAS | 6 | Beginning and ending of a Greek apologia? |
| 61% | ONES | 4 | Start and end of every row in Pascal's triangle |
| 60% | BELL | 4 | Sound signaling the start and end of class |
| 60% | SOSA | 4 | Guy who started and ended as a Ranger but spent most of the time as a Cub |
| 60% | TAOS | 4 | Start and end of New Mexico's Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway |
| 58% | SWAT | 4 | End of a fly? ... or the start of one? |
| 57% | SOMETHINGWICKED | 15 | Start of a Ray Bradbury title ... or a hint to the ends of 17-, 26-, 49- and 62-Across |
| 57% | MOVERS | 6 | Businesses that tend to be busiest at the starts and ends of months |
| 56% | COMMAS | 6 | Use inverted __ to start and end a quoted passage |
| 56% | RACE | 4 | It starts and ends with a line |
| 56% | EMBER | 5 | End of a fire ... and also the end of two cold months? |
| 55% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 55% | HANA | 4 | Destination at the end of a long and winding Maui road |
| 55% | AGIRL | 5 | End of song titles starting "About" and "I Kissed" |
| 55% | BEATIT | 6 | End of the sentence "Make like a drum and ..." |
| 54% | VALENTINE | 9 | End of a question begun by part of 19-, 23-, 42- and 48-Across |
| 54% | GODOWNSWINGING | 14 | Fight to the bitter end ... or a hint to the starts of 20-, 32- and 40-Across |
| 54% | ITSAHELLUVATOWN | 15 | Lyric in the song named by the starts and ends of 19-, 27-, 45- and 53-Across |