| 100% | MOVINGVAN | 9 | Starting at 19-Across and ending here, vehicle making its way through five long answers |
| 48% | PROGRESSIVETAX | 14 | Rate-rising-with-amount levy that makes its way through four long answers starting at 15-Across |
| 39% | MINESWEEPER | 11 | Warship that made its way through the Across answers but not the Down answers |
| 31% | OIL | 3 | __ change (what the five longest Across answers end with) |
| 29% | HARDC | 5 | It starts and ends seven answers in this puzzle |
| 29% | OSMOSES | 7 | Slowly makes its way through |
| 29% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 28% | HEADLIGHTS | 10 | They're at the front of a car, and the other four longest Across answers |
| 28% | STALEMATERIAL | 13 | Dated jokes ... and what the ends of four Across answers are, in a way |
| 28% | LOSSLEADERS | 11 | Retail come-ons ... and what the starts of the longest Across answers can be? |
| 28% | GOODPOINT | 9 | "Your argument makes sense," and a feature of the ends of four Across answers |
| 27% | CUTRATE | 7 | Cheap, and what you must do to five Across answers to make them match their clues |
| 27% | ANIMALHOUSE | 11 | Raucous frat film, and a hint to the starts of the other four long Across answers |
| 25% | COMETOYOURSENSES | 16 | Wake up ... or what five long Across answers do? |
| 24% | RACE | 4 | It starts and ends with a line |
| 24% | DOSEQUIS | 8 | Beer brand whose logo hints at the answers to 17-, 19-, 38-, 43- and 61-Across |
| 24% | FISH | 4 | Use the items found at the ends of the answers to 20-, 31-, 47- and 56-Across |
| 24% | MARTIANMISSIONS | 15 | NASA endeavors whose vehicles can be found at the ends of 17-, 22-, 51- and 57-Across |
| 24% | SWISS | 5 | Deli cheese ... or, in three parts, a hint to the five longest across puzzle answers |
| 24% | YOUSEE | 6 | "It's like this," and a phonetic hint to the five longest Across answers |
| 23% | BACKDATES | 9 | Makes retroactive ... or what the eight other longest Across answers have |
| 23% | USEDFURNITURE | 13 | Some garage sale goods ... or what the answers at 15-, 19-, 33-, 41- and 62-Across have done? |
| 23% | LEADINGQUESTION | 15 | It's designed to elicit a certain answer ... or where the end of 17-, 25- and 47-Across may be found |
| 23% | DEES | 4 | Low grades, and the initials of the long Across answers |
| 23% | SEWNUP | 6 | Clinched, and a hint to the four longest Across answers |
| 23% | ALPHABET | 8 | It starts with "A" and ends with "Z" |
| 23% | FLAG | 4 | LGBTQ symbol celebrating its 40th anniversary hinted at by the starts of the starred answers |
| 23% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 23% | INTRANSIT | 9 | Making its way there |
| 23% | ESS | 3 | It’s near the end of August and at the beginning of September |