| 100% | PERSEVERANCE | 12 | Subject of the adage formed by the starts of nine long answers in this puzzle |
| 66% | NEWYEARSEVE | 11 | Time to sing the tune suggested by the starts of 10 long answers in this puzzle |
| 54% | JAMESMICHENER | 13 | Author of the novels whose titles are the starts of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 53% | DECLARATION | 11 | With 114-Across, source of the phrase formed by the ends of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 52% | DRONE | 5 | Bee formed by the letters heard at the starts of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 52% | FAIRYTALEENDING | 15 | What’s spelled out by the starts of six answers in this puzzle |
| 52% | STOLEN | 6 | What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
| 51% | TLDR | 4 | "I lost interest" acronym spelled out by the starts of four answers in this puzzle |
| 50% | DONUT | 5 | Treat whose varieties appear at the starts of four long answers and are represented a dozen times in this puzzle |
| 49% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 49% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 48% | PHONETIC | 8 | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 45% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 45% | OLD | 3 | Unlike the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers |
| 45% | ELEVEN | 6 | How many letters are in the longest answers in this puzzle - or how many of these answers there are |
| 45% | LEADDETECTIVES | 14 | Ones in charge of a case ... or a literal hint to the eight other longest answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | TOE | 3 | Digit associated with the starts of this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 44% | HEARTED | 7 | Word that can follow the starts of 11 answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 44% | FBIAGENTS | 9 | Govt. employees encoded by the nine other longest across entries in this puzzle ... and who might be called in to decode them |
| 43% | STEAKDINNER | 11 | Meal suggested by the starts of four long answers |
| 43% | OPPOSITESATTRACT | 16 | Saying about compatible partners … as suggested by the starts of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? |
| 43% | FLIMFLAMARTISTS | 15 | People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | ALLTHATJAZZ | 11 | Bob Fosse film title relevant to the starts of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | HALLE | 5 | ___ Berry, actress with roles found at the starts of three answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | FALLLEAVES | 10 | Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle? |
| 43% | CARBONFREE | 10 | Like renewable energy ... or nine long answers in this puzzle? |
| 43% | YIDDISH | 7 | Source of the six longest Across answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | SUMMERBLOCKBUSTER | 17 | What each of eight long answers in this puzzle was |
| 43% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |