| 100% | SPYING | 6 | What Xiyue Wang, finally released in 2019, was accused of doing by Iran in 2016 |
| 39% | HERESY | 6 | What Salman Rushdie was accused of by Iran when it issued its 1989 fatwa |
| 31% | CHERNOBYL | 9 | Historical drama TV miniseries about a nuclear disaster of April 1986 that was released in 2019 |
| 30% | NOPE | 4 | Song Jeff Tweedy of "Wilco" wrote which was released on the album "Schmilco" in 2016 |
| 30% | LOCKHERROOM | 11 | What she did to not be bothered by the rest of the family? |
| 30% | CHOLULA | 7 | Did you know? The Great Pyramid of ___ located in Mexico is the world's largest pyramid by volume |
| 29% | EVIL | 4 | "Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot |
| 29% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 29% | THEFT | 5 | What a kleptomaniac is accused of |
| 29% | LALALAND | 8 | 2016 Gosling/Stone film ... and, as shown by circles, what each of four answers is |
| 29% | GETTINGTHEW | 11 | Winning, in sports slang ... and what each of four puzzle answers is doing? |
| 29% | OGDEN | 5 | First permanent settlement by people of European descent in what is now Utah |
| 29% | BREAKINGBAD | 11 | #3 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time (as of 2016) ... and a hint to what the black squares are doing in four rows of this puzzle |
| 29% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 29% | POOLE | 5 | Jordan who was drafted in the first round of the 2019 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors |
| 29% | GOUNDERCOVER | 12 | What narcs may do ... or what can literally be found in three pairs of puzzle answers |
| 28% | TIME | 4 | "In My ___ of Dying" 1975 song by the rock band Led Zeppelin that was released in their album "Physical Graffiti" |
| 28% | ROYEMERSON | 10 | Australian tennis player whose record of six Australian Open wins was tied by 32-Across in 2016: 2 wds. |
| 28% | ACT | 3 | Anagram of the animal in 23a which is what Ryan Reynolds does for a living |
| 28% | DRYMARTIN | 9 | What "should be made by filling a glass with gin, then waving it in the general direction of Italy," per Noël Coward |
| 28% | OCEAN | 5 | "Cake by the ___," single by the band DNCE released in 2015, which is part of their self-titled debut album |
| 28% | SPELLBOUND | 10 | Entranced … or what one can do by reading the starts of 17-, 24-, 34-, 44- and 50-Across in order? |
| 28% | BIAS | 4 | What Fox News and MSNBC are accused of having |
| 28% | TIN | 3 | What the metal man in Oz was made of |
| 28% | HIDEINPLAINSIGHT | 16 | What words concealed by the other four longest Across answers do ... and also, what each of them is |
| 28% | PITS | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the ___?" (Erma Bombeck book) |
| 28% | ERMA | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" writer Bombeck |
| 28% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 28% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 28% | BANDONTHERUN | 12 | 1973 triple-platinum album by Wings ... and what each of three answers to starred clues is, literally |