| 100% | ASILIVE | 7 | With 33-Down and 51-Across, "What a surprise!" |
| 58% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 57% | SMACK | 5 | With 33-Down, precisely, as in the middle of 17-, 23-, 51- and 62-Across |
| 53% | OIL | 3 | With "of" and 51-Across, a facial moisturizer |
| 52% | NO | 2 | With 38-Across, what a two-letter answer is in a crossword, usually ... or a hint to 20-, 24-, 44- and 51-Across |
| 52% | CROSSPARTYLINES | 15 | Act in a bipartisan way, and what the circled letters do Across and Down |
| 51% | ALLTHATWESEE | 12 | With 33-, 40-, 45-, and 57-Across, a quote by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 50% | YOU | 3 | With 51- and 54-Across, what 17-Across stands for |
| 49% | ORANGEIS | 8 | With 33- and 52-Across, television series set in a women's prison: 2 wds. |
| 49% | THOMAS | 6 | With 9 Down and 71 Across, source of quote |
| 49% | TYPEOFSCULPTURE | 15 | 17, 21, and 51 Across all finish with one |
| 48% | SET | 3 | What a stage crew builds and takes down |
| 48% | SPLIT | 5 | With 51-Across, nitpick ... or a hint to 17-, 37- and 60-Across |
| 48% | THEBEST | 7 | With 51-Across, Sinatra classic, and a hint to completing three puzzle answers |
| 48% | DAM | 3 | What a beaver builds with trees it gnaws down |
| 48% | FANFAREFORTHE | 13 | With 33 Across, P.D.Q. Bach piece with a lot of horn-blowing (and probably nose-blowing) |
| 48% | SNOUT | 5 | What a tapir can grasp and manipulate objects with |
| 48% | DONTTAKEANYOF | 13 | With 33-Down, Skeptic's advice ... or a "noteworthy" hint to seven Across answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | SEW | 3 | What a tailor would do with a needle and thread |
| 46% | COUNT | 5 | With 61-Across, advice for an insomniac ... or what you can do 12 times in this puzzle, reading across and down (not including this answer) |
| 46% | EXCUSEMEOFFICER | 15 | With 38- and 60-Across, what the man caught taking a dip in the reservoir said |
| 46% | SMALL | 5 | With 62-Across, a trifling amount . . . and what’s found in four places in this puzzle |
| 46% | YES | 3 | What a fist bobbing up and down means in American Sign Language |
| 46% | FETCH | 5 | What a dog may do to the last parts of 17- and 51-Across and 11- and 25-Down |
| 45% | HALFPOUND | 9 | With 51 Across, ''big'' beef on a bun |
| 45% | SEW | 3 | What you do with a needle and thread |
| 45% | LOOSE | 5 | With 62-Across, handyman's assortment, and a hint to what's in each set of circles |
| 45% | CROSSWORDS | 10 | Puzzles with across and down clues |
| 45% | HEADSTART | 9 | Advantage in a race, and what can be found in 16-, 33-, or 40-Across |
| 45% | PEDAL | 5 | What a driver presses with their foot to speed up or slow down |