| 100% | BASEBALL | 8 | With 30-Across, title soon to be held by Rob Manfred |
| 38% | GLASS | 5 | With 27 Across, 2022 film whose title was inspired by a Beatles song |
| 38% | INCONTEMPT | 10 | Bad way to be held by a judge |
| 35% | AROCKANDA | 9 | With 30-Down, difficult things to be "between" |
| 34% | INASCRABBLEGAME | 15 | With 30- and 49-Across, test question to be answered by filling in the correct circle |
| 33% | EINERECLINER | 12 | With 117 Across, songs to relax by? |
| 33% | PRESIDENT | 9 | Title held by the people who lent their names to 17-, 24-, 38- and 49-Across |
| 33% | THE | 3 | With 18-Across, TV program to be hosted by James Corden in 2015 |
| 33% | BURNINUP | 8 | 30-Across hit song with a rap verse by the band's bodyguard Robert "Big Rob" Feggans (2 wds.) |
| 32% | THEFRIENDSWEMADEALONG | 21 | With 126/127 Across, companions on our life's journey who were more valuable to us than our destination ... and an alternate title for this puzzle |
| 32% | TURNBACK | 8 | With 65 Across, return to the way it was |
| 32% | FUND | 4 | Trust ___ (money held by parents to be used later by their children) |
| 31% | ONTOPOF | 7 | With 30-Across, where to find a snowcap |
| 31% | FRANK | 5 | With 30-Across, is blunt |
| 30% | ONTHEDOCKET | 11 | Soon to be heard |
| 30% | NEXT | 4 | Soon to be up |
| 30% | ORDERED | 7 | Soon to be served |
| 30% | ENGAGED | 7 | Soon to be married |
| 30% | KERNEL | 6 | Soon to be popcorn |
| 30% | SUPERBOWL | 9 | With 26 Across, memorable spots created by the answers to the starred clues |
| 30% | BESTOF | 6 | With 30-Across, 1975 #1 hit by the Eagles (2 wds.) |
| 30% | GOODADVICE | 10 | With 30-Down, what 17- and 62-Across are |
| 30% | ONORDER | 7 | Soon to be delivered, perhaps |
| 30% | ROBERT | 6 | With 30-Across, singer with the 1986 #1 song “Addicted to Love" |
| 29% | NONET | 5 | A chamber work by Louis Spohr was the first to bear this title |
| 29% | HONEY | 5 | "Milk and ___," poetry collection by Rupi Kaur whose title is connected to 13a |
| 29% | STEALTH | 7 | With 88 Across, what this diagram is an aerial view of (eight, to be exact) |
| 29% | FIANCEE | 7 | Woman soon to be wed |
| 29% | HOSTAGE | 7 | One way to be held |
| 29% | ATBAY | 5 | One way to be held |