| 100% | PROFESSORPLUM | 13 | With 37- and 49-Across, possible solution to 12-Down |
| 49% | GOOD | 4 | With 37-Down, what 17-, 24-, 47- and 58-Across are all said to bring |
| 49% | ODDS | 4 | With 37- Across and 44-Down, miscellany |
| 45% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 45% | SECRET | 6 | With 37-Across, Election Day practice ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 45% | DARK | 4 | With 37-Across, fall of Rome aftermath, and a hint to the puzzle theme |
| 44% | TATER | 5 | With 37 Across, alternative to fries |
| 44% | BURSTOUT | 8 | With 37-Across, lose it ... or what 12 answers in this puzzle appear to do |
| 44% | THEHANDYMANYOUR | 15 | With 49- and 55-Across, response to 20-Across |
| 44% | HEAD | 4 | With 37-Across, hair accessory ... or a literal hint to 19-, 27-, 47- and 56-Across |
| 43% | WHEELOF | 7 | With 37-Across, card in a tarot deck, and a hint to each circled letter set |
| 43% | YOUR | 4 | With 37- and 39-Across, book and TV series on human evolution, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 43% | TILTA | 5 | With 37-Across, spinning amusement ride, and a hint to this puzzle's design and circled letters |
| 42% | MAIL | 4 | With 37-Across, perform perfunctorily … or a hint to the ends of 16-, 25-, 41- and 55-Across |
| 42% | YOULL | 5 | With 21 Across, 3 Down, 8 Down, and 20 Down, response to Ralphie's request for a BB gun in "A Christmas Story" |
| 42% | DONOTFORSAKE | 12 | With 49-Across, theme song of 37- and 38-Across |
| 42% | IENJOYEDYOURBOOK | 16 | With 43- and 48-Across, a barb to 14-Down |
| 42% | FASHION | 7 | With 37-Across, up on the latest trends, and a fitting description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 41% | HIGH | 4 | With 37-Across, leave quickly ... or what both words in 17-, 21-, 26-, 49-, 56- and 61-Across could be? |
| 41% | NICHOLAS | 8 | With 37-Across, actor who stars in 49-Across as Neil Melendez and in "Being Mary Jane" as Orlando Lagos |
| 41% | 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) |
| 41% | INASCRABBLEGAME | 15 | With 30- and 49-Across, test question to be answered by filling in the correct circle |
| 41% | TRADITIONAL | 11 | With 49- and 69-Across, a hint to the meanings of the bracketed clues |
| 41% | MEDICAL | 7 | With 37 Across, health-care jobs of 19 and 49 Across |
| 41% | REMOVING | 8 | With 37-Across and 38-Down, step taken after an airline accident |
| 41% | BANANA | 6 | With 37-Across, some ice cream confections … or a hint to the second, fifth, eleventh and fourteenth rows of this puzzle |
| 40% | CROSSWORDS | 10 | Puzzles with across and down clues |
| 40% | BORNWITHA | 9 | With 37- and 50-Across, privileged |
| 40% | CAPTAIN | 7 | With 37-Across, title for the hidden individuals in 16-, 23-, 46-, and 58-Across, thanks to the circles in each answer? |
| 40% | ABBE | 4 | With 12 Across, singer and actress born Abigail Lassman |