| 100% | IYAM | 4 | Start and end of Popeye's credo |
| 96% | IYAM | 4 | Start and end of Popeye's credo (2 wds.) |
| 81% | IYAM | 4 | Start and end of Popeye's catchphrase (2 wds.) |
| 64% | ABRA | 4 | Start and end of a magician's cry |
| 63% | ONES | 4 | Start and end of every row in Pascal's triangle |
| 62% | TAOS | 4 | Start and end of New Mexico's Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway |
| 61% | IYAM | 4 | Start of Popeye's credo |
| 60% | EFS | 3 | Start and end of a faceoff? |
| 59% | SCHWAS | 6 | Start and end of 3-Down, phonetically |
| 59% | NEST | 4 | Start and end of many a flight |
| 59% | LONGO | 5 | Start and end of ''O Sole Mio'' |
| 59% | ALL | 3 | Start and end of the Musketeers' motto |
| 58% | ALL | 3 | Start and end of the Three Musketeers' motto |
| 58% | TAOS | 4 | Start and end of the Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway |
| 57% | BELL | 4 | Sound signaling the start and end of class |
| 53% | MOVERS | 6 | Businesses that tend to be busiest at the starts and ends of months |
| 52% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 51% | AGIRL | 5 | End of song titles starting "About" and "I Kissed" |
| 50% | ITSAHELLUVATOWN | 15 | Lyric in the song named by the starts and ends of 19-, 27-, 45- and 53-Across |
| 49% | IYAM | 4 | Part of Popeye's credo |
| 47% | ALL | 3 | Start (and end) of the Three Musketeers' motto |
| 47% | ALL | 3 | Beginning and end of 20-Across's motto |
| 47% | SOSA | 4 | Guy who started and ended as a Ranger but spent most of the time as a Cub |
| 46% | IYAM | 4 | Start of Popeye's existential maxim |
| 45% | IYAM | 4 | Start of Popeye's phrase: 2 wds. |
| 43% | SCHWAS | 6 | Beginning and end of "America" |
| 43% | EMS | 3 | Beginning and ending of modernism |
| 43% | CEES | 4 | Beginning and ending of colic |
| 43% | OHIO | 4 | U.S. state that starts and ends with O |
| 43% | ERA | 3 | Period with start and end dates |