| 100% | GRILLPAN | 8 | Try to uncover the truth of what happened to Hook? |
| 48% | GIULIANI | 8 | Subject of the series subtitled What Happened to America's Mayor? |
| 45% | WAR | 3 | What truth is said to be the first casualty of |
| 44% | ART | 3 | What we have "in order not to die of the truth," per Nietzsche |
| 43% | WOO | 3 | Try to win the love of |
| 43% | WOO | 3 | Try to win the hand of |
| 43% | WOO | 3 | Try to win the affection of |
| 43% | WOO | 3 | Try to win the affections of |
| 43% | HAIL | 4 | Try to get the attention of |
| 43% | SCARE | 5 | Try to cure the hiccups of |
| 43% | WOOS | 4 | Tries to win the affection of |
| 43% | WOOS | 4 | Tries to win the affections of |
| 43% | HEFTS | 5 | Tries to determine the weight of |
| 43% | WOOS | 4 | Tries to win the hand of |
| 42% | WOO | 3 | Try to win the heart of a lady |
| 42% | WOO | 3 | Try to win the heart of a lady? |
| 42% | TAKEASWING | 10 | Try to hit, or what one can do with the ends of 18-, 26- and 47-Across |
| 41% | MEGA | 4 | Half of what MMMM solvers try to find before the end of the year, for short |
| 41% | REASON | 6 | What "Why?" tries to uncover |
| 41% | EXTORT | 6 | What Jeff Bezos accused the National Enquirer and American Media of trying to do him last year by threatening to reveal nude pictures |
| 40% | DENIAL | 6 | In ___ (unable to acknowledge the truth of a situation) |
| 40% | GETPLAYED | 9 | Fall for it, or what can happen to the last words of 17-, 25-, 38- and 56-Across |
| 40% | SENOR | 5 | What to call the barber of Seville |
| 40% | AERATEFREIGHT | 13 | Try to cure the effects of a skunk invasion on a semi? |
| 39% | WINTERENDS | 10 | What happens on March 20, 2022, at 11:33 a.m. ... and what both parts of the answers to starred clues are |
| 39% | LIARS | 5 | People who often try to hide the truth and instead misinform others |
| 39% | CLIMB | 5 | Go up, like someone trying to reach the top of a mountain |
| 39% | COLLISIONTHEORY | 15 | What scientists use to predict the rates of chemical reactions |
| 38% | TOE | 3 | What you might use to test the temperature of a bath |
| 38% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |