| 100% | LEGALIZED | 9 | With 20 Across, what the people of AZ, NJ, MT, and SD voted for by proposition in 2020 |
| 32% | FEARS | 5 | "___ in Solitude," conversational poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with notes of patriotism for the British people |
| 31% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 31% | WHITEHOUSEDOGS | 14 | What the starts of 21-, 26-, 40- and 50-Across are, for the presidents in their clues |
| 31% | SHOWERTHOUGHTS | 14 | Mundane musings, or what the last words of 20-, 32-, and 39-Across have in common? |
| 31% | DATINGAPP | 9 | Mobile download for single people, and what the starts of 18-, 24-, 37- and 54-Across have in common |
| 30% | POT | 3 | Substance legalized in four more states following the 2020 election (NJ, AZ, SD, MT) |
| 30% | SWING | 5 | With 20 Across, place where your vote actually matters in the US, thanks to the Electoral College |
| 29% | CYCLE | 5 | What hitting the starts of 20-, 32-, 43- and 55-Across comprises, in baseball lingo |
| 29% | DAVID | 5 | With 43-Across, singer of the lyric formed by the first parts of 20-, 24-, 40-, 51- and 58-Across |
| 29% | BALLPARKFIGURES | 15 | Estimates, and what the last parts of 20-, 28- and 48-Across are, in different ways |
| 29% | THATSALL | 8 | With 63-Across, "The end" ... or what can be said about the novels in the clues for 25-, 38- and 52-Across |
| 28% | DOUBLE | 6 | With 52-Down, betrayal, and what's formed by each pair of the trigrams |
| 28% | ROCKANDROLL | 11 | Genre with a Hall of Fame in Cleveland … or what can follow the respective halves of 17-, 33- and 40-Across |
| 28% | INHALINGFOOD | 12 | What the ends of 20-, 36- and 43-Across suggest |
| 28% | MAKEA | 5 | With 69- and 70-Across, get to the point . . . or what you’ll need to do with some of the answers in this puzzle? |
| 28% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 28% | DIRECTORSSHOUT | 14 | What the ends of 20-, 35- and 42-Across are, collectively |
| 28% | DEM | 3 | Rule by the people, for the people and of the people: ___ocracy |
| 28% | LIDOSHUFFLE | 11 | Boz Scaggs hit with the lyric "One more for the road," and what can be found in 17-, 23-, 37-, and 48-Across? |
| 28% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 28% | BERNARD | 7 | With 23 Across, luxury goods magnate listed by Forbes as the world's wealthiest person in 2023 |
| 28% | TOBUILDAFIRE | 12 | Jack London short story set in harsh winter conditions, and what the ends of 20-, 28-, and 47-Across can be used for |
| 28% | AIRPLANESEATS | 13 | What the ends of the answers to 20-, 26- and 42-Across are |
| 27% | HIDEINPLAINSIGHT | 16 | What words concealed by the other four longest Across answers do ... and also, what each of them is |
| 27% | MELANIA | 7 | “___ and Me,” book sourced in part from surreptitious recordings of conversations with the First Lady (September, 2020) |
| 27% | EVIL | 4 | "Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot |
| 27% | BOFA | 4 | Financial institution with a stylized version of the Stars and Stripes in its logo, for short |
| 27% | WALTLONGMIRE | 12 | Sheriff of the fictional county of Absaroka, Wyoming, who is featured in 20 books by 40-Across and a 2012-2017 television series (2 wds.) |
| 27% | BOWLS | 5 | What the starts of 20- and 53-Across and 11- and 29-Down are |