| 100% | SECOND | 6 | With 34-Across, subtitle of the fall 2015 season of 16-Across (each contestant was eliminated in a previous season) |
| 48% | CAMBODIA | 8 | Southeastern Asian nation where the fall 2015 season of 16-Across was set |
| 39% | NANCY | 5 | With 34-Across, she was LPGA Tour Player of the Year in 1978 as a rookie and received the Bob Jones Award in 1998 |
| 38% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 37% | BRAD | 4 | With 34-Across, "Moneyball" actor who plays a rescuer of the novelist in "The Lost City" |
| 36% | JENNIFER | 8 | With 34-Across, "Alita: Battle Angel" actress who plays the owner of a bar in "Top Gun: Maverick" |
| 35% | CALLMEBY | 8 | With 35-Across, subtitle of 15-Across that is also the title of a 2017 romance film: 3 wds. |
| 35% | BIRDS | 5 | There are two, as the expression goes, in each of 16- and 55-Across |
| 35% | FRANKIEMUNIZ | 12 | "Malcolm in the Middle" actor who was a finalist on season 25 of "Dancing with the Stars" (2 wds.) |
| 34% | TRUMAN | 6 | With 33-Across, friend of 15-Across who was the basis for Dill in "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| 34% | ATLANTA | 7 | With 34-Across, NFC South squad that is one of four NFL teams that plays their home games in a fixed-roof stadium |
| 33% | SHOHEI | 6 | With 34-Across, Dodgers pitcher who, in 2024, became the only player to hit 50 homers and steal 50 bases in a season |
| 33% | IOMOTH | 6 | North American insect, the male of which is bright yellow in colour with a blue and pink eyelike spot on each hind wing |
| 33% | MURDER | 6 | With 23-Across, subtitle of the first season of "American Horror Story" |
| 33% | LADY | 4 | With 34-Across, nominee for the Best Actress and Best Original Song Oscars for her work in "A Star Is Born" |
| 33% | BESTPICTURE | 11 | With 35-Across, group of 10 movies hidden in the previous week of Atlantic minis, two in each puzzle. Can you find them all? |
| 33% | DRY | 3 | With 10 Across, what cannot be seen in the house after a tearjerker |
| 32% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 32% | BASTINADO | 9 | Punishment in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick |
| 32% | ANGEL | 5 | ___ Falls, waterfall that is part of the Canaima National Park which is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Venezuela |
| 32% | STALEMATERIAL | 13 | Dated jokes ... and what the ends of four Across answers are, in a way |
| 32% | JEWELRY | 7 | What the starts of 17- and 62-Across and 11- and 34-Down may each be a piece of |
| 32% | AROD | 4 | Nickname of the ex-Yankee who once was in a relationship with J.Lo: Hyph. |
| 31% | LIVE | 4 | With 7-Across, be in the lap of luxury |
| 31% | CTE | 3 | A degenerative brain disease found primarily in athletes and was the focus of the 2015 film "Concussion": Abbr. |
| 31% | ASTER | 5 | Daisy-like flower that is a member of the sunflower family and blooms late in fall |
| 31% | ENVYFREE | 8 | Like a division of resources in which each partner is satisfied with their share, in economics |
| 31% | BOSTON | 6 | ___ Celtics, NBA team with a 19-game winning streak in the regular season of 2008-09 |
| 31% | HEAT | 4 | Miami ___, NBA team with a 27-game winning streak in the regular season of 2012-13 |
| 31% | BUCKS | 5 | Milwaukee ___, NBA team with a 20-game winning streak in the regular season of 1970-71 |