| 100% | PIG | 3 | With 33-Across, ixnay or amscray |
| 60% | DONTTAKEANYOF | 13 | With 33-Down, Skeptic's advice ... or a "noteworthy" hint to seven Across answers in this puzzle |
| 57% | ERIE | 4 | With 33 Across, 1820s engineering marvel |
| 55% | JAMES | 5 | With 33 Across, ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' author |
| 50% | BED | 3 | With 70-Across, what the end of 17-, 33-, 42- or 63-Across describes |
| 49% | SENT | 4 | With 33-Across, remitted |
| 49% | AROLLINGSTONE | 13 | With 33-Across, aphorism |
| 48% | ADIOS | 5 | With 15 or 28 Across, oater farewell |
| 48% | ICED | 4 | With 33-Across, summer cooler |
| 48% | RED | 3 | With 36 Across, accountant's need, or bane |
| 47% | THE | 3 | With 33-Across, Montreal's subway |
| 47% | RITEOF | 6 | With 33-Across, confirmation, e.g. |
| 47% | HOME | 4 | With 33-Across, Macaulay Culkin comedy |
| 47% | AHI | 3 | With 33-Across, deep-sea catch |
| 47% | FANFAREFORTHE | 13 | With 33 Across, P.D.Q. Bach piece with a lot of horn-blowing (and probably nose-blowing) |
| 46% | WORD | 4 | With 33-Across, anagrams and puns (or parts hidden in 17-, 24-, 44- and 51-Across) |
| 46% | VOX | 3 | With 33-Across, opinions of the majority |
| 46% | CEELO | 5 | With 33-Across, "The Voice" vocal coach |
| 46% | INDEPENDEN | 10 | With 33-Across, exemplar of female empowerment |
| 46% | ANG | 3 | With 33-Across, “Life of Pi” director |
| 46% | FACE | 4 | With 33-Across, meeting with someone in person |
| 46% | THOMAS | 6 | With 33-Across, current star of 15-Across |
| 46% | STEVIE | 6 | With 33-Across, visually impaired singer of "Superstition" |
| 45% | ICOULDUSE | 9 | With 33-Across, 2017 Maren Morris hit: 3 wds. |
| 45% | WILLIE | 6 | With 33-Across, country singer born April 29, 1933 |
| 44% | GEORGIA | 7 | With 33-Across, painter with a museum in Santa Fe |
| 44% | WARREN | 6 | With 33-Across, he was Clyde in "Bonnie and Clyde" |
| 44% | SALLY | 5 | With 33-Across, actress who played Gidget from 1965-1966 |
| 44% | MAMMA | 5 | With 33-Across, musical set on the island of Kalokairi |
| 44% | LIONEL | 6 | With 33-Across, "Hello" singer and judge on "American Idol" |