| 100% | LINKS | 5 | What do websites, sausages and golf courses all have in common? |
| 57% | BANKS | 5 | What do rivers, airplanes and Wall Street all have in common? |
| 45% | FALSESTARTS | 11 | What 17-Across, 11 and 35-Down all have in common |
| 41% | JETS | 4 | What Jacuzzis, airports and the N.F.L. all have in common |
| 39% | DATES | 5 | What calendars, promgoers and some palm trees have in common |
| 39% | AFROS | 5 | What Dr. J and Richard Roundtree once had in common |
| 39% | HOLES | 5 | What golf courses and bad plots both have |
| 38% | STARS | 5 | What Broadway and the Milky Way have in common |
| 38% | TEETH | 5 | What humans and saws have in common |
| 38% | VOWELOFSILENCE | 14 | What people and leopards have in common? |
| 38% | KEN | 3 | What Kendall and Kenneth have in common? |
| 37% | WINGS | 5 | What planes, museums and bar menus all have, in different senses |
| 37% | CLOSESTHEDEAL | 13 | Has successful negotiations, and, in a way, what this puzzle does |
| 37% | DOT | 3 | What "i" and "j" have in common |
| 37% | SON | 3 | What "Hudson" and "Madison" have in common? |
| 37% | BATTERS | 7 | "What do pancakes and baseball teams have in common? They both need good ___" |
| 37% | EYE | 3 | What a needle and potato have in common |
| 37% | GAS | 3 | What the sun and Sunoco have in common |
| 35% | HAVEACASE | 9 | Be justified in pressing a suit, and what the starred answers all do |
| 35% | SALESPROMOTIONS | 15 | Marketing strategies, and what the mascots in this puzzle have all been given? |
| 35% | NOTASTE | 7 | What bad dressers and bland food have in common |
| 35% | EYE | 3 | What a potato and a needle have in common |
| 35% | VERBIAGE | 8 | What purple prose and technical jargon have in common |
| 35% | SCORING | 7 | What film composers and soccer strikers have in common |
| 35% | TOSSEDSALAD | 11 | Common first course ... or what's literally contained in 17-, 23-, 32-, 44- and 49-Across? |
| 35% | PARTWO | 6 | Common miniature golf goal ... or a hint to what's found in 17-, 39- and 60-Across |
| 34% | UNITED | 6 | What the U.S. and U.K. have in common? |
| 33% | CARRIESNOWEIGHT | 15 | Has little significance ... and to all intents and purposes, what the first word of 17-, 27- and 48-Across does |
| 33% | FAKENEWS | 8 | Inaccurate information, and what the starred answers have in common |
| 33% | DIAERESES | 9 | What Anne Brontë and Anaïs Nin have in common |