| 100% | FORK | 4 | With 15-Across, utensil usually at the far left in a place setting |
| 57% | SALADFORK | 9 | Utensil on the far left in a standard place setting: 2 wds. |
| 51% | SALADFORK | 9 | Utensil farthest left in a five-piece place setting |
| 39% | FORK | 4 | Utensil in a place setting |
| 37% | CLEF | 4 | Symbol at the far left of a musical staff |
| 36% | PLAYOFF | 7 | With 15 Across, growth for many a player pursuing the Stanley Cup |
| 36% | BAIL | 4 | In cricket, either of the small wooden bars placed across the top of a set of stumps to form a wicket |
| 35% | COMICBOOK | 9 | Setting for each of the places in 15-, 21-, and 41-Across: 2 wds. |
| 35% | PEPPERS | 7 | With 15 Across, illusion that uses a reflection to create the appearance of a phantom |
| 34% | EDEN | 4 | Place with a snake in the grass |
| 34% | EBB | 3 | With 15-Across, 1953 song that was a hit for the Righteous Brothers in 1965 |
| 34% | FORK | 4 | Utensil to the left of the plate in a standard table setting |
| 34% | NEIL | 4 | With 15-Across, "How I Met Your Mother" actor who won a 2014 Tony Award for starring in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" |
| 34% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 34% | PEAR | 4 | With 63 Across, ''partridge in a'' place |
| 34% | EDEN | 4 | Place with a tree of immortality in the Quran |
| 34% | TRUMAN | 6 | With 33-Across, friend of 15-Across who was the basis for Dill in "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| 33% | TOP | 3 | With 66-Across, place on a keyboard to find all the letters in 16-, 28-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 33% | INTERSTATE | 10 | With 59-Across, highway that goes through the 15 places indicated in this puzzle, in order, north to south |
| 33% | WHATA | 5 | With 15 and 20 Across, a 1967 song sung by Louis Armstrong in "Good Morning, Vietnam" |
| 33% | KNIFE | 5 | Piece in a place setting |
| 33% | NAPKIN | 6 | Band in a place setting |
| 32% | NEW | 3 | With 21 Across, holiday aptly placed at 20/21 in this grid |
| 32% | SOUPSPOON | 9 | Rightmost item in a place setting |
| 32% | ONEPIN | 6 | "Hitting ___ on the far right or left in bowling is called a meg.": 2 wds. |
| 32% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 32% | DRY | 3 | With 10 Across, what cannot be seen in the house after a tearjerker |
| 32% | MRTOAD | 6 | "The Wind in the Willows" character with a "Wild Ride" at Disneyland |
| 32% | OKLAHOMA | 8 | Place the Joads left to seek a better life in California |
| 32% | CHANTAL | 7 | With 15-Across, director whose 1975 film, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, was named the best film of all time in a recent Sight & Sound poll |