| 100% | THEYCANBESPIKED | 15 | What 18-, 23-, 52- and 61-Across have in common |
| 57% | WOWFACTOR | 9 | Pizazz ... or what 18-, 23-, 46- and 56-Across each has? |
| 53% | TURNDOWNANOSCAR | 15 | What 18 and 52 Across were the only performers to do |
| 52% | NEWBEGINNINGS | 13 | Fresh starts ... or, when said aloud, what 18-, 23-, 53- and 58-Across all have? |
| 52% | PUTTHESQUEEZEON | 15 | Coerce, or what can be done to 18-, 23-, 52-, and 58-Across |
| 52% | DOT | 3 | What "i" and "j" have in common |
| 52% | SON | 3 | What "Hudson" and "Madison" have in common? |
| 51% | NOTASTE | 7 | What bad dressers and bland food have in common |
| 51% | EYE | 3 | What a potato and a needle have in common |
| 51% | VERBIAGE | 8 | What purple prose and technical jargon have in common |
| 51% | SCORING | 7 | What film composers and soccer strikers have in common |
| 51% | TEETH | 5 | What humans and saws have in common |
| 51% | VOWELOFSILENCE | 14 | What people and leopards have in common? |
| 51% | KEN | 3 | What Kendall and Kenneth have in common? |
| 51% | VAPORTRAILS | 11 | What airplanes leave in the sky ... or what 17-, 23-, 37- and 48-Across have? |
| 50% | THEYMIGHTCRASH | 14 | What 20-, 34- and 41-Across have in common |
| 50% | TWOKINDSOFBOATS | 15 | What 18-, 23-, 55- and 63-Across each comprises |
| 49% | THEYCANBEROLLED | 15 | What 17-, 26-, 50- and 60-Across have in common |
| 49% | UNITED | 6 | What the U.S. and U.K. have in common? |
| 49% | EYE | 3 | What a needle and potato have in common |
| 49% | GAS | 3 | What the sun and Sunoco have in common |
| 49% | NOTHINGINCOMMON | 15 | What 17-, 23-, 38- and 55-Across have |
| 49% | DECENTWINECHEAP | 15 | What 52 Across said he could get in San Francisco and nowhere else |
| 48% | EXTRAEXTRA | 10 | Old street cry, or what's in 18-, 23-, 34-, 42- and 51-Across? |
| 48% | BACKPAY | 7 | Past due salary ... and what's literally hidden in 17-, 23-, 52- and 63-Across |
| 48% | ONEND | 5 | Without a break ... or what each word in 18-, 28-, 46- and 62-Across has |
| 47% | EIEIO | 5 | What the seven longest Across answers have in common |
| 47% | STARS | 5 | What Broadway and the Milky Way have in common |
| 47% | FIVESTARS | 9 | What 17-, 23-, 33- and 47-Across each have |
| 47% | MOREORLESS | 10 | Roughly, and a hint to the words hidden in 18-, 23-, 36- and 52-Across |