| 100% | TTTTTTGROUPS | 12 | The Beatles and the Dave Clark Five, in a way |
| 55% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Reversed, in a way ... and a hint to the creation of five puzzle answers |
| 51% | PIECES | 6 | Bits and __, 60s tune by The Dave Clark Five |
| 48% | RAISEMONEY | 10 | Get support, in a way ... and what the puzzle circles do |
| 47% | STALEMATERIAL | 13 | Dated jokes ... and what the ends of four Across answers are, in a way |
| 47% | NINETOFIVEJOBS | 14 | Predictable work ... and, in a way, what the other three longest answers are? |
| 45% | RAILROADED | 10 | Convicted hastily and unfairly ... or, in a way, like the four other longest puzzle answers? |
| 45% | IFYOUCAN | 8 | Words after "Catch Us" in a Dave Clark Five song title |
| 44% | QUINTETS | 8 | The Dave Clark Five et al. |
| 44% | QUINTET | 7 | The Dave Clark Five, e.g. |
| 44% | DOCTOREDUP | 10 | Altered, in a way ... and a hint to the org. that helped create the answers to starred clues |
| 44% | TRIMTHETREE | 11 | Decorate for Christmas, in a way, and how to make sense of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 44% | CROSSPARTYLINES | 15 | Act in a bipartisan way, and what the circled letters do Across and Down |
| 44% | COUNTDOWN | 9 | What might end the year, and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 43% | PLAIN | 5 | The opposite of everything, in a way |
| 43% | RRR | 3 | The basics, in a way |
| 43% | TIED | 4 | The same, in a way |
| 42% | SOWN | 4 | In the ground, in a way |
| 42% | AHEAD | 5 | In the lead, in a way |
| 42% | TWISTANDSHOUT | 13 | 1964 Beatles hit, and a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 42% | DIAGONALPARKING | 15 | Easy way of pulling in ... and a hint to the six circled words |
| 42% | ILIKEITLIKETHAT | 15 | 1965 top 10 hit for the Dave Clark Five |
| 42% | MASTERPIECES | 12 | "Mona Lisa" and "Guernica" ... and, in a different way, the last words of 20-, 34- and 42-Across |
| 42% | ALLEN | 5 | Irwin —, director of adventure films Five Weeks in a Balloon and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea |
| 42% | SMELT | 5 | Get the lead out, in a way |
| 42% | SLUM | 4 | Take the low road, in a way |
| 42% | UNROOF | 6 | Take the top off, in a way |
| 42% | DIDNOHARM | 9 | Followed the Hippocratic oath, in a way |
| 42% | TITRATE | 7 | Measure the strength of, in a way |
| 42% | POLLED | 6 | Sought the opinions of, in a way |