| 100% | POLL | 4 | Voting process found in the four longest Across answers |
| 76% | SKI | 3 | Downhill runner found in the four longest Across answers |
| 76% | CRATE | 5 | Boxing container found in the four longest Across answers |
| 76% | OSCAR | 5 | Golden boy found in the four long Across answers |
| 74% | TOM | 3 | Turkey found in the four longest Across answers |
| 72% | BAT | 3 | Fly-by-night creature found in the four longest Across answers |
| 64% | PCORMAC | 7 | What's hidden in the four longest Across answers |
| 63% | CALM | 4 | Inner peace, incorporated in the four longest Across answers |
| 63% | CARS | 4 | They're ''parked'' in the four longest Across answers |
| 62% | ETTU | 4 | Words of disbelief found in the four longest Across entries |
| 61% | CPAS | 4 | Summers found in the four longest answers |
| 60% | TALC | 4 | Soft rock found in the eight longest Across answers |
| 58% | YAM | 3 | Thanksgiving side dish found in the longest Across answers |
| 57% | POL | 3 | Campaigner found in the fronts of words of the four long Across answers |
| 56% | BENTOUTOFSHAPE | 14 | Upset ... and what can be found in the four other longest answers? |
| 56% | TOE | 3 | Stocking stuffer found in the long Across answers |
| 55% | HIDDENTAX | 9 | Income-reducing inequity, or what can be found in the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 54% | DEUCESWILD | 10 | Card game declaration, and a hint to what can be found in the four other longest answers |
| 53% | MEAT | 4 | Filler in a deli sandwich (and in the four longest Across answers) |
| 52% | INK | 3 | Tattoos, slangily, sported by the four longest Across answers |
| 52% | DOSE | 4 | Medicine internal to the four longest Across answers |
| 52% | OGRE | 4 | Monster incorporated into the four long Across answers |
| 51% | SEWNUP | 6 | Clinched, and a hint to the four longest Across answers |
| 50% | SCALE | 5 | What the four longest Across answers each have two parts of |
| 50% | DRAMA | 5 | The four longest Across answers can cause it, and their last words suggest it |
| 49% | GEMS | 4 | What are hidden in the four longest answers |
| 49% | THREE | 5 | Number of words in the four longest answers |
| 49% | SPREADTHIN | 10 | What's found in the other eight longest answers |
| 49% | HOTSTUFF | 8 | 1979 #1 hit for Donna Summer, and what the four longest Across answers are |
| 48% | EIEIO | 5 | Children's song refrain featured in the four longest answers |