| 100% | SWING | 5 | With 20 Across, place where your vote actually matters in the US, thanks to the Electoral College |
| 33% | LEGALIZED | 9 | With 20 Across, what the people of AZ, NJ, MT, and SD voted for by proposition in 2020 |
| 32% | AHEADOFTHEGAME | 14 | In an advantageous position, or where both halves of the answers to 20-, 26-, and 44-Across can be placed? |
| 32% | DLO | 3 | Place where your correspondence ends up when there's no return address and the main address seems to written in Klingon (abbr.) |
| 32% | SNOW | 4 | With 19-Across, place for kids to play in the winter |
| 31% | FIRST | 5 | Where the U.N. is in Manhattan, with 27-Across |
| 30% | AMENDMENT | 9 | The 19th allowed women to vote in the US |
| 30% | IDA | 3 | Where to find Moscow in the U.S.: Abbr. |
| 30% | ZOOS | 4 | Only places to find anteaters in the U.S. |
| 29% | VIRGINIA | 8 | US state where the slave rebellion in 15-/25-Across takes place |
| 29% | TOP | 3 | With 66-Across, place on a keyboard to find all the letters in 16-, 28-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 29% | OBERLIN | 7 | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to admit women |
| 29% | NEWPORT | 7 | City in Rhode Island home to the US Naval War College |
| 29% | ALASKA | 6 | US State home to Denali mountain peak- coldest place in the US in 2003 |
| 29% | BROADWAY | 8 | Where the answers to 20-, 24-, 36- and 46-Across have appeared in lights |
| 29% | NEW | 3 | With 21 Across, holiday aptly placed at 20/21 in this grid |
| 29% | INTERSTATE | 10 | With 59-Across, highway that goes through the 15 places indicated in this puzzle, in order, north to south |
| 29% | MARAT | 5 | With 31-Across, Russian tennis player who became the youngest man to be ranked #1, at 20, in 2000 |
| 29% | TRAIN | 5 | *We will, we will rock you!* "In the days leading up to the match, ___ (practice) with your team" |
| 28% | OBERLIN | 7 | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to award degrees to women |
| 28% | CALI | 4 | Only place in the U.S. to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics, informally |
| 28% | THEJOKER | 8 | Villain associated with a staircase in the Bronx, thanks to a 2019 movie |
| 28% | CAPTAIN | 7 | With 37-Across, title for the hidden individuals in 16-, 23-, 46-, and 58-Across, thanks to the circles in each answer? |
| 28% | CHAMPAIGN | 9 | City in Illinois, US, home to the University of Illinois with sister city Urbana |
| 28% | BEAUTY | 6 | With 33-Down, where to go for the ends of 16-, 20-, 40-, 56- and 62-Across |
| 28% | NEO | 3 | Prefix with "classical" to give an architectural style seen in the U.S. White House |
| 28% | BED | 3 | Place with pillows and blankets that is hard to leave in the morning |
| 28% | THOMAS | 6 | With 65 Across, the first to see his name ''up in lights'' (1881) |
| 27% | FRONTIERMARKETS | 15 | Where to buy plane tickets in places with emerging economies? |
| 27% | IKEA | 4 | Company that was the first in the U.S. to air a TV ad with a gay couple (1994) |