| 100% | DIFFERENCE | 10 | With 113-Across, end of the definition |
| 67% | CONVERSATION | 12 | End of the definition |
| 67% | BYMARRIAGE | 10 | End of the definition |
| 67% | RARENORWELLDONE | 15 | End of the definition |
| 67% | AMOVIETHEATER | 13 | End of the definition |
| 67% | SOMEFRESHGROUNDPEPPER | 21 | End of the definition |
| 67% | BECOMEOBSOLETE | 14 | End of the definition |
| 67% | UPWITHYESTERDAY | 15 | End of the definition |
| 66% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 64% | WORDFOR | 7 | With 62-Across, end of the query |
| 63% | TEE | 3 | With 51-Across, end of the London blitz? |
| 60% | ANOTHERDAY | 10 | End of the end of "Gone With the Wind" |
| 57% | IRON | 4 | With 21 Across, one of the Avengers |
| 57% | GEORGE | 6 | With 39 Across, coiner of the slogan |
| 57% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 56% | AFT | 3 | End of a ship with views of the wake |
| 56% | ALLFORONE | 9 | With 24 Across, slogan of The Three Musketeers |
| 54% | AMBROSE | 7 | With 43-Down, author of the definition |
| 54% | GEORGE | 6 | With 24 Across, loser of the first really serious pie fight? |
| 53% | DOT | 3 | With 2-Down, end of the Gettysburg address? |
| 53% | OTIS | 4 | With 72 Across, the King of Elevator Music? |
| 53% | WEDDING | 7 | The book Shirley ends with two of this ceremony |
| 53% | ILIAD | 5 | It ends with the burial of Hector |
| 52% | DAILY | 5 | With 72-Across, the end of 20-, 37-, 44- or 59-Across |
| 52% | DEEP | 4 | Like the end of the pool with a diving board |
| 52% | THEFIRSTTIMEEVERI | 17 | With 127 Across, the best-selling hat song of 1972? |
| 52% | TIMEHEALS | 9 | With 12 Across, maxim stressing the natural resolution of problems |
| 52% | INONEEARAND | 11 | With 113-Across, heard but disregarded ... or a hint to interpreting the Across answers with circled letters |
| 52% | ILIAD | 5 | Poem that ends with the funeral of Hector |
| 52% | ILIAD | 5 | Poem that ends with the burial of Hector |