| 100% | RACISM | 6 | Theme of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Do the Right Thing" |
| 52% | TACT | 4 | Sense of the right thing to do |
| 51% | HARPER | 6 | First name of the author of To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 51% | HARPERLEE | 9 | Author of To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 50% | OMISSION | 8 | Sin of ___ (failure to do the right thing) |
| 48% | CRAM | 4 | Try to do a semester's worth of studying right before the exam |
| 48% | ALT | 3 | Key to both the left and right of a PC's space bar |
| 48% | RUBYDEE | 7 | "Do the Right Thing" actress whose last name sounds like a letter of the alphabet: 2 wds. |
| 47% | DARK | 4 | With 37-Across, fall of Rome aftermath, and a hint to the puzzle theme |
| 47% | PLAYINGWITHFIRE | 15 | Doing something risky ... or a hint to the last words of 18-, 24-, 49- and 58-Across |
| 47% | BEDHEAD | 7 | Messy hair in the morning, and a hint to the tops of the theme answers |
| 47% | RIGHTBACKATYA | 13 | Slangy reciprocation of a compliment, and a second clue to the theme |
| 46% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 46% | SKIPINTRO | 9 | Command to bypass a recap of prior episodes ... and what the puzzle circles do |
| 46% | HOLDIT | 6 | "Stop right there!" … or a hint to the first words of 17-, 23-, 47- and 59-Across |
| 46% | MORALFIBER | 10 | Propensity to do the right thing |
| 46% | SPIKELEE | 8 | Director of Do the Right Thing |
| 45% | PELOPS | 6 | Son of Tantalus in Greek mythology killed by his father and served to the gods as a meal |
| 45% | RAISEEMUP | 9 | Words before a toast, and what you can do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 45% | APPROPRIATION | 13 | Act of taking a property without having the right to do so |
| 45% | CLEARTHEAIR | 11 | Talk things out . . . or what to do to make sense of the clues for 17-, 27-, and 44-Across |
| 45% | THEPLOTTHICKENS | 15 | "Now things are getting interesting" ... or a hint to the first words of 17-, 24-, 45- and 57-Across |
| 45% | RACISM | 6 | "To Kill a Mockingbird" theme |
| 45% | CONNECTSTHEDOTS | 15 | Makes sense of a situation ... and, literally, what the quartet of answers to starred clues does |
| 45% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 44% | CROSSREFERENCES | 15 | Things to "see" in a dictionary, and what both parts of the answers to the starred clues are? |
| 44% | RACISM | 6 | Theme in "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| 44% | BOO | 3 | Radley of "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| 44% | LEE | 3 | Author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| 44% | PECK | 4 | Gregory of "To Kill a Mockingbird" |