| 100% | HAVINGAFINETIME | 15 | Start of a message on 20-Across |
| 75% | WISHYOUWEREHERE | 15 | End of a message on a 20-Across |
| 72% | BEETHOVEN | 9 | Start of a message on a Lincoln Center T-shirt |
| 64% | ALLFORONE | 9 | Start of a quote from 20-Across |
| 59% | DEARREADERS | 11 | Start of a message to magazine subscribers |
| 58% | MYGOALINLIFEIS | 14 | Start of a wish by 112-Across on 9/21/09 |
| 57% | GOODNEWSBADNEWS | 15 | Start of a mixed message, as illustrated by 17-, 23-, 39- and 54-Across |
| 57% | MEETME | 6 | Start of a tryster's message |
| 57% | OUTOFTHECRADLE | 14 | Start of a 36 Across poem |
| 57% | WHENLILACSLAST | 14 | Start of a 36 Across poem |
| 57% | ISIT | 4 | Start of a 20 Questions question |
| 57% | TOERR | 5 | Start of a saying on forgiveness |
| 56% | INCORRIGIBLE | 12 | Start of a lapel-button warning message |
| 56% | BEWARE | 6 | Start of a sign on a gate |
| 55% | WEWONDER | 8 | Start of a comment on a popular adage |
| 55% | BAABAABLACKSHEEP | 16 | Start of a nursery rhyme on a farm |
| 54% | NOWHEARTHIS | 11 | Start of a PA announcement on a naval ship |
| 54% | ICLIMBMOUNT | 11 | Start of a quote on how aging changes nothing |
| 54% | THE | 3 | Start of a quote on obstinacy by James Russell Lowell |
| 53% | IJUSTPUTMYFEET | 14 | Start of a 58 Across/25 Down quote, describing his craft |
| 53% | WHAT | 4 | With 54-Down, start of a historic telegraph message |
| 53% | ISLE | 4 | Bit of a 20 Across |
| 52% | WHADDYASUPPOSED | 15 | Start of a 35/36 Across quote, after seeing a Murphy bed |
| 52% | IRIS | 4 | Colorful part of a 20 Across |
| 51% | SOS | 3 | Message on the beach of a remote island, maybe |
| 51% | GERM | 4 | Start of a 14-Across |
| 51% | JUSTHAVINGABYTE | 15 | Message on the locked door of a hacker's basement? |
| 51% | DASHEDOUTTOHEAT | 15 | Message on the locked door of a furnace repair shop? |
| 50% | BTW | 3 | Start of a text-message afterthought |
| 50% | GOTON | 5 | Started on a piece of equipment |