| 100% | SHOPPINGCENTER | 14 | What teen hangout is named by the letters PP? |
| 43% | FIRESTARTER | 11 | What Stephen King title is suggested by the letter F? |
| 39% | SPOONERISMS | 11 | What 18-, 25-, 37- and 52-Across all are (whose circled letters name something used with the base phrases) |
| 38% | BOHEMIAN | 8 | Name by which the Czech language was known |
| 38% | BADGUY | 6 | Hit song by the 1-Across winner whose name is spelled out by the final three letters of 21-, 25-, 47- and 52-Across |
| 37% | PEA | 3 | "A seed with three letters in my name. Take away two and I still sound the same. What am I?" |
| 37% | OUANANICHE | 10 | Name by which the Atlantic salmon is also known |
| 37% | LIME | 4 | Name by which the linden tree is also known |
| 37% | OUANANICHE | 10 | Name by which the landlocked Atlantic salmon is also known |
| 36% | LBJ | 3 | Name by which the US president from 1963-69 was known |
| 36% | REDARROWS | 9 | Name by which the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team are known |
| 36% | ALAR | 4 | What is the popular name for daminozide? |
| 36% | SEALEDWITHAKISS | 15 | Love letter message often accompanied by a lipstick mark, and what the answers to the starred clues are, thanks to their circled letters |
| 36% | ALLBLACKS | 9 | Name by which the New Zealand national rugby union team is known |
| 36% | LAWLORDS | 8 | Name by which the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary were also known |
| 36% | TRIPLECROWN | 11 | What was won by the answer to each capitalized clue |
| 35% | LAKE | 4 | What the Caspian Sea is (despite its name) |
| 35% | CAMBRIA | 7 | The medieval name for what is now Wales |
| 35% | LAKE | 4 | What the Dead Sea is (despite its name) |
| 35% | POT | 3 | What a Dutch oven is (despite the name) |
| 35% | SEAPERCH | 8 | Bluestripe —, name by which the common bluestripe snapper is also known |
| 35% | TIN | 3 | The only element whose name is three letters long |
| 35% | DEVIL | 5 | What Beelzebub and The Tempter are both names for |
| 35% | PETERPAN | 8 | The name Wendy was made popular by this story |
| 35% | SMARTCOOKIE | 11 | What you are, by completing the puzzle |
| 35% | DOGFISH | 7 | Name by which the small-spotted cat shark is also known in the UK |
| 35% | BELGIANCONGO | 12 | Name by which the Democratic Republic of the Congo was known from 1908-60 |
| 35% | SHELLCOMPANIES | 14 | Corporations with little business activity, and what are formed by the circled letters |
| 35% | OOMPAUL | 7 | Name by which former president of the Transvaal S J P Kruger was known |
| 35% | PELE | 4 | He was named Athlete of the Century by the I.O.C. |