| 100% | NOTHINGTO | 9 | With 36 and 56 Across, so-so |
| 66% | STAYWITHUS | 10 | With 36- and 56-Across, an announcer's plea |
| 62% | CANTWALKAND | 11 | With 35 and 56 Across, is quite uncoordinated |
| 61% | PHILLISWHEATLEY | 15 | 18th-century poet (whose name shares a feature with 36- and 56-Across) |
| 59% | ITWASTHEBEST | 12 | With 36 and 57 Across, ''A Tale of Two Cities'' beginning |
| 56% | THERESAMAY | 10 | With 39 and 56 Across, how a Tory and a pundit might differ in decisiveness |
| 53% | THREE | 5 | With 53- and 56-Across, certain abode |
| 52% | DREAMSARE | 9 | With 36 Across and 61 Across, a quote by Lupita Nyong'o |
| 52% | CROSSWORDPUZZLE | 15 | With 37- and 56-Across, what this is |
| 51% | FOOLSRUSHIN | 11 | With 36- and 59-Across, words of Alexander Pope |
| 50% | WHERETHERES | 11 | With 36- and 57-Across, an old dramatist's motto? |
| 50% | IFMY | 4 | With 36- and 43-Across, second line of the poem |
| 50% | CHANGE | 6 | With 36- and 39-Across, go from 1- to 61-Across |
| 50% | AMESSAGEIN | 10 | With 38- and 56-Across, what's hidden in this puzzle |
| 48% | WORDSPRONOUNCED | 15 | With 36- and 58-Across, what the answers to the starred clues are |
| 48% | STORM | 5 | With 36- and 53-Down, translation of 38-/40-/41-Across |
| 47% | UNITEDKINGDOMOF | 15 | With 37- and 56-Across, where "God Save the Queen" is the national anthem |
| 47% | APPLE | 5 | Fruit associated with 17- and 56-Across and 10- and 24-Down |
| 47% | ITALIAN | 7 | With 55-Across, description of 23-, 36- and 44-Across |
| 47% | PASTPERFORMANCE | 15 | With 36-Across and 55-Across, a sales pitch disclaimer |
| 46% | JACQUELINE | 10 | With 33-, 36- and 40-Across, American born 7/28/1929 |
| 46% | FISTBUMPOR | 10 | With 40 and 64 Across, congratulatory choices |
| 46% | DOCTORS | 7 | With 36- and 40-Across, organization whose name hints at some missing letters in this puzzle |
| 46% | WHATIMPLEMENT | 13 | With 28-, 48- and 56-Across, riddle whose answer appears in the circled squares |
| 46% | THE | 3 | With 36-Across, TV squad with B.A. Baracus and Hannibal Smith |
| 46% | THE | 3 | With 35- and 36-Across, second-largest galaxy in the Local Group |
| 45% | STAY | 4 | With 40-Across, coloring advice ... and literally so |
| 45% | READ | 4 | With 40-Across, infer something ... and literally so |
| 45% | IFITOLLEDTHEM | 13 | With 36- and 44-Across, what 17-Across might have said when his job became too repetitious? |
| 45% | TIC | 3 | With 50 and 55 Across, the ''central'' theme |