| 100% | INA | 3 | With 14-Across, Shakespearean words after "What's" |
| 55% | SPEAKTHEANSWERS | 15 | What to do with 14 Across |
| 55% | WOOWOOWOO | 9 | With 80 Across, what it's like after a meeting of the Curly Fan Club? |
| 54% | IWANT | 5 | With 14-Across, deal-breaking words |
| 50% | OPENING | 7 | With 14-Across, what latecomers may miss |
| 50% | DRY | 3 | With 10 Across, what cannot be seen in the house after a tearjerker |
| 49% | HUNT | 4 | With 14 Across, "Twister" star |
| 49% | FRUIT | 5 | With 14 Across, sweet summer beverage |
| 49% | STOCKING | 8 | With 14 Across, some Christmas gifts |
| 48% | ROM | 3 | With 14 Across, films like ''Pretty Woman'' |
| 48% | PATTI | 5 | With 14 Across, "Because the Night" singer |
| 47% | HOLE | 4 | With 14 Across, office tool for paper shaping |
| 46% | IRON | 4 | With 59 Across, what's attached to some benches |
| 46% | ROUGH | 5 | With 38- and 49-Across, unrefined, and a hint to what can precede this puzzle's border words |
| 46% | BUGGY | 5 | With 14 Across, Volkswagen Beetle in a car game |
| 46% | ELSE | 4 | Word after who or what |
| 46% | OURGUESTSPEAKER | 15 | With 29-, 46- and 59-Across, welcome after-dinner words |
| 46% | MAP | 3 | With 59 Across, what's found within many a legend |
| 46% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 45% | ELSE | 4 | Word after who, what or anything |
| 45% | ELSE | 4 | Word after who, what or where |
| 45% | DRIVING | 7 | With 14-Across, florist's favorite Jessica Tandy movie? |
| 44% | NOT | 3 | Negating word that, if parsed with a space after the second letter, may help to understand nine Across answers |
| 44% | ELSE | 4 | Word after who, what, when, where or why |
| 44% | ISIT | 4 | Questioning words after who or what |
| 43% | ELSE | 4 | Word after who, what, where, when, why or how |
| 43% | ELSE | 4 | Word after who, what or where, but rarely when |
| 43% | ELSE | 4 | Word after who, what, when, where, why or how |
| 43% | HAND | 4 | What's used in a high five ... and a word used with 38a to signify 50a |
| 43% | SEE | 3 | Word with after or through |