| 100% | SILENTB | 7 | What words like debt, subtle and thumb have in common: 2 wds. |
| 39% | TEETH | 5 | What humans and saws have in common |
| 39% | VOWELOFSILENCE | 14 | What people and leopards have in common? |
| 39% | KEN | 3 | What Kendall and Kenneth have in common? |
| 37% | EYE | 3 | What a needle and potato have in common |
| 37% | GAS | 3 | What the sun and Sunoco have in common |
| 36% | DOT | 3 | What "i" and "j" have in common |
| 36% | SON | 3 | What "Hudson" and "Madison" have in common? |
| 33% | NOTASTE | 7 | What bad dressers and bland food have in common |
| 33% | EYE | 3 | What a potato and a needle have in common |
| 33% | STARS | 5 | What Broadway and the Milky Way have in common |
| 33% | VERBIAGE | 8 | What purple prose and technical jargon have in common |
| 33% | SCORING | 7 | What film composers and soccer strikers have in common |
| 33% | ONEND | 5 | Without a break ... or what each word in 18-, 28-, 46- and 62-Across has |
| 32% | ONEL | 4 | What every word in this grid has except the starred hints: 2 wds. |
| 31% | DATES | 5 | What calendars, promgoers and some palm trees have in common |
| 31% | AFROS | 5 | What Dr. J and Richard Roundtree once had in common |
| 31% | DIAERESES | 9 | What Anne Brontë and Anaïs Nin have in common |
| 31% | UNITED | 6 | What the U.S. and U.K. have in common? |
| 31% | RISEANDFALL | 11 | Move like tides and stock prices, or what the hidden words do in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 31% | LIKEA | 5 | Words before "Virgin" and "Prayer" in Madonna song titles: 2 wds. |
| 31% | FAKENEWS | 8 | Inaccurate information, and what the starred answers have in common |
| 30% | CROSS | 5 | What words do in a puzzle like this one |
| 30% | LONGA | 5 | Something gays and straights have in common? |
| 30% | SYMMETRY | 8 | Something U and I have in common |
| 30% | TVCAMERA | 8 | What sitcom stars and reporters stand in front of to be recorded: 2 wds. |
| 30% | LINKS | 5 | What do websites, sausages and golf courses all have in common? |
| 30% | BANKS | 5 | What do rivers, airplanes and Wall Street all have in common? |
| 30% | RHYME | 5 | What words don't have to do in free verse |