| 100% | TERMINAL | 8 | Where passengers begin and end a journey |
| 51% | HOME | 4 | Beginning and end of many journeys |
| 51% | ASH | 3 | Beginning and end of a phoenix |
| 51% | ALPHAS | 6 | Beginning and ending of a Greek apologia? |
| 48% | YEAR | 4 | Calendar period that begins and ends with a bang |
| 45% | NYSE | 4 | Wall Street trading venue that begins and ends with a famous bell (Abbr.) |
| 42% | BEALL | 5 | Beginning and end |
| 41% | AREPA | 5 | Traditional Columbian dish that begins and ends with the letter "A" |
| 41% | SCHWAS | 6 | Beginning and end of "America" |
| 41% | EMS | 3 | Beginning and ending of modernism |
| 41% | CEES | 4 | Beginning and ending of colic |
| 41% | VALENTINE | 9 | End of a question begun by part of 19-, 23-, 42- and 48-Across |
| 40% | SEATTLE | 7 | Where Starbucks began (and a product it popularized) |
| 40% | THERE | 5 | Consolation beginning and ending |
| 40% | EMS | 3 | Millennium beginning and ending |
| 39% | BACKROOM | 8 | Where shady deals may be made, and a hint to the ends of the starred answers |
| 39% | ENS | 3 | Nixon's beginning and end |
| 39% | ALL | 3 | Beginning and end of 20-Across's motto |
| 39% | EMS | 3 | Millennium, at the beginning and end? |
| 39% | SCHWA | 5 | "America" begins and ends with this |
| 39% | XES | 3 | "Xerox" begins and ends with them |
| 38% | ESSES | 5 | What sitcoms always begin and end with? |
| 38% | RAGES | 5 | The beginning and end of rampages, fittingly? |
| 38% | ATASLANT | 8 | Like an escalator, and, aptly, like the six-letter word that begins where 40-Across ends |
| 38% | SEATCHANGE | 10 | Irritated passenger's request, and a hint to the ends of 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 38% | XES | 3 | Letters that "Xanax" begins and ends with |
| 37% | PUNCTUATIONMARK | 15 | What ends many a line, and what begins each of the puzzle's three other long answers |
| 37% | SEPIA | 5 | Tone of ''The Wizard of Oz'' beginning and end |
| 37% | COMMAS | 6 | Use inverted __ to start and end a quoted passage |
| 37% | AROUNDTHEWORLDINATDAYS | 22 | 1873 adventure novel that begins and ends in London |