| 100% | WETTER | 6 | What the Dakotas, Minnesota and Michigan all were in 2019, weatherwise |
| 41% | SALESPROMOTIONS | 15 | Marketing strategies, and what the mascots in this puzzle have all been given? |
| 40% | ALEAST | 6 | What the Rays and Jays are in, for short |
| 40% | BIGTENCONFERENCE | 16 | What Minnesota and Michigan are part of, but not Missouri |
| 40% | METRO | 5 | What the subway is called in Washington, DC and Paris |
| 40% | FACEBOOKBUTTONS | 15 | What the first words in 17-, 29- and 48-Across are |
| 39% | HOPPERS | 7 | What the starts of 17-, 26-, 44- and 58-Across all are |
| 39% | DRESSINGS | 9 | What the last words in 16-, 22-, 36- and 48-Across are |
| 39% | DIDDLYSQUAT | 11 | What the exercise regimen in 17-, 25-, 37- and 51-Across is worth? |
| 38% | HAVEACASE | 9 | Be justified in pressing a suit, and what the starred answers all do |
| 38% | FLYINGSTART | 11 | What the answers to 17-, 26-, 37-, 39- and 52-Across are all off to? |
| 38% | REVERSE | 7 | What the numbers 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 are in |
| 38% | RAD | 3 | What the Dead Kennedys and Minor Threat were to skateboarders in the '80s |
| 38% | SEED | 4 | What is planted in the soil and could become a tree? |
| 37% | DEADWOOD | 8 | National Historic Landmark District in South Dakota that is the setting and title of an HBO series and a 2019 film starring Timothy Olyphant and Ian McShane |
| 37% | GOO | 3 | What oobleck is, in Dr. Seuss's "Bartholomew and the Oobleck" |
| 37% | NICHOLSON | 9 | Jack __ was all work and no play in The Shining |
| 37% | PALINDROMES | 11 | What the answers to the starred clues all are when their first and last letters are removed |
| 37% | WHITEHOUSEDOGS | 14 | What the starts of 21-, 26-, 40- and 50-Across are, for the presidents in their clues |
| 37% | SHADOW | 6 | What's longer in the morning and evening than it is at noon |
| 37% | THEE | 4 | "The hopes and fears of all the years are met in ___ tonight" |
| 37% | TINATURNER | 10 | "The Best" singer, and what this puzzle is, in the circles |
| 37% | OWLS | 4 | What Hedwig and Errol are, in the Harry Potter books |
| 36% | STROKES | 7 | Pets ... or what the starts of 17-, 25-, 50- and 61-Across are all kinds of |
| 36% | SANS | 4 | After 1-Across, what the first names at 20-, 36-, 43- and 57-Across all are? |
| 36% | STRAIGHTEDGES | 13 | Rulers, e.g. ... or what the letters in 3-, 7-, 27- and 34-Down all have |
| 36% | SEQUOIA | 7 | What is the only seven-letter word to use all five vowels and Q? |
| 36% | BENTOUTOFSHAPE | 14 | Upset ... and what can be found in the four other longest answers? |
| 36% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | BODYLANGUAGE | 12 | Nonverbal communication, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |