| 100% | BOSCS | 5 | They have long, tapering necks, are generally russet colored and are cousins to the Bartletts |
| 35% | LUTES | 5 | They have long necks and round bodies |
| 33% | CORONAS | 7 | The "Gran" variety of these can be over 9 inches long, but then you have to slice off the end to use them |
| 32% | FBIAGENTS | 9 | Govt. employees encoded by the nine other longest across entries in this puzzle ... and who might be called in to decode them |
| 32% | ASPS | 4 | The snakes in Indiana Jones' "Why do they have to be snakes?" |
| 31% | TIME | 4 | With 63-Across, what (in abbreviated form) has been added to the long Down answers |
| 31% | OFTIME | 6 | They stand the test __ and have been married years |
| 31% | RES | 3 | ___ judicata (case in which there has been a final judgment and is no longer subject to appeal) |
| 30% | GOLAST | 6 | Have the final turn, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 30% | TAN | 3 | Color of skin that has been in the sun for a long time |
| 29% | LEMUR | 5 | Primate with large eyes and a long tail that is endemic to the island of Madagascar |
| 29% | IBEFOREE | 8 | General spelling rule, and what must be imagined in the starred clues to make them accurate |
| 29% | DST | 3 | What Ariz. and Hawaii are the only two states not to have |
| 29% | DEUCESWILD | 10 | Card game declaration, and a hint to what can be found in the four other longest answers |
| 29% | SALLIE | 6 | The ___ House, house in Kansas that is said to be haunted and has appeared on the TV series, "Ghost Adventures" |
| 29% | ADAR | 4 | Moses is reputed to have been born and to have died on the seventh day of this month |
| 29% | PROSANDCONS | 11 | Both sides of an argument, and what have been switched to create the answers to the starred clues |
| 29% | JENNIFER | 8 | Name that may have been derived from the juniper plant and common to 13a, 18a, 32a, and 39d |
| 29% | PIANO | 5 | Answer to the riddle "I have keys but no locks and feet but no socks, what am I?" |
| 29% | NATURALGAS | 10 | Trinidad and Tobago resource that has led to it be one of the richest western countries per capita |
| 29% | SOULS | 5 | They may be sold to the devil |
| 29% | FRECKLED | 8 | Having been overexposed to the sun, maybe |
| 29% | ERIE | 4 | Where Oliver Hazard Perry said "We have met the enemy, and they are ours" |
| 29% | IVORIES | 7 | “Okay just learned that tickling the ___ is a piano reference and has NOTHING to do with making white ppl laugh” (Vinny Thomas tweet) |
| 28% | ACACIA | 6 | Tree which is part of the initiation of Master Masons and to them represents the immortality of the soul |
| 28% | OWED | 4 | Was up to the neck, so to speak |
| 28% | MARTINBRODEUR | 13 | Former New Jersey Devils' goaltender who has the highest number of wins with 691 wins and was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2018: 2 wds. |
| 28% | STEPS | 5 | They may be taken to the next level |
| 28% | SALS | 4 | Comedians Vulcano of The Tenderloins and Iacono, who happens to be Jimmy Kimmel's cousin |
| 28% | TOPRANKS | 8 | "It is such fun to fool the folks / And make them butts of harmless jokes …" |