| 100% | WIDER | 5 | What I seem to have gotten as the years have passed by |
| 38% | BEAMMEUP | 8 | "I want to come back to the ship," as everyone circled in this puzzle seems to have said to 22-Across |
| 38% | IMO | 3 | "This is what I have to say," on the internet: Abbr. |
| 38% | MINDMYPSANDQS | 13 | What I, the constructor, had to do while making this puzzle |
| 37% | TAN | 3 | What you hope to get by laying in the sun |
| 37% | REDLIGHT | 8 | What Roxanne didn't have to put on, in a song by The Police |
| 35% | DANZA | 5 | Actor Tony who wrote the memoir "I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High" |
| 35% | MAKEENDSMEET | 12 | Get by ... or what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 35% | TILLYOULOVEME | 13 | Reba McEntire song with the lyric "I guess I can wait if that's what I have to do" |
| 34% | PTICKETROUNDTRI | 15 | What this answer seems to have |
| 34% | ARIZONA | 7 | "By the Time I get to ___," 1991 song by Public Enemy honoring Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 34% | REINS | 5 | What you'll have to get hold of to ride the "one-horse open sleigh" |
| 34% | SECRETCODE | 10 | What the answers to the six starred clues follow, as hinted at by 66-Across |
| 34% | FOOT | 4 | "On ___ I Had to Cross the Solar System," poem by Edith Sodergran about celebrating life |
| 33% | REPEATAFTERME | 13 | "Do as I do," and a hint to what the circled letters do |
| 33% | STARRED | 7 | To have appeared as the lead in a movie or play |
| 33% | DEEPEN | 6 | What the Army Corps of Engineers got $85 million to do to the Mississippi this year |
| 33% | ASHIP | 5 | Answer to the riddle “I have one bow but no arrows. What am I?” |
| 33% | HIDE | 4 | *"Everybody's Got Something to ___ Except Me and My Monkey," song by the Beatles |
| 33% | AMERICANHONEY | 13 | Lady A song with the lyrics "Oh, I miss those days as the years go by / Oh, nothin' sweeter than summertime" (2 wds.) |
| 33% | CANIHAVEYOURS | 13 | "Excuse me, I seem to have lost my phone number — ...?" |
| 33% | UHOH | 4 | "That's not what I wanted to have happen": Hyph. |
| 33% | FDR | 3 | Prez who said, "I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made" |
| 32% | CANDYSHOP | 9 | 50 Cent hit with the lyric “One taste of what I got / I’ll have you spending all you got” |
| 32% | KENO | 4 | What's said to have funded the Great Wall |
| 32% | WOVE | 4 | What someone must have done to produce the Peruvian Guitarrero Cave's more than 9000 year old textiles |
| 32% | LOSEWEIGHT | 10 | Common New Year's resolution -- as hinted at by the answers to the four starred clues |
| 32% | FREE | 4 | "...One thing I can tell you is you got to be ___" ("Come Together" by The Beatles) |
| 32% | GLEN | 4 | "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" singer Campbell |