| 100% | EACHANSWERHASAN | 15 | With 37- and 54-Across, curious property of this crossword |
| 48% | MEDICAL | 7 | With 37 Across, health-care jobs of 19 and 49 Across |
| 48% | BANANA | 6 | With 37-Across, some ice cream confections … or a hint to the second, fifth, eleventh and fourteenth rows of this puzzle |
| 46% | CROSSWORDPUZZLE | 15 | With 37- and 56-Across, what this is |
| 45% | FROM | 4 | With 37-Across, theme of this puzzle |
| 42% | SECRET | 6 | With 37-Across, Election Day practice ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 42% | EDWARDTUDORAROYALHEIR | 21 | With 39- and 54-Across, the beginning of the story |
| 42% | TRANSFER | 8 | With 119 Across, one changing schools ... and what you must do between seven pairs of schools in this puzzle |
| 41% | GOING | 5 | With 39- and 42-Across, activity of the spirits in this puzzle |
| 41% | ODDS | 4 | With 37- Across and 44-Down, miscellany |
| 40% | TILTA | 5 | With 37-Across, spinning amusement ride, and a hint to this puzzle's design and circled letters |
| 40% | MAIL | 4 | With 37-Across, perform perfunctorily … or a hint to the ends of 16-, 25-, 41- and 55-Across |
| 40% | THOMAS | 6 | With 37-Across, inventor who held 1,093 US patents and is called "the Wizard of Menlo Park" |
| 40% | DARK | 4 | With 37-Across, fall of Rome aftermath, and a hint to the puzzle theme |
| 39% | DONOTFORSAKE | 12 | With 49-Across, theme song of 37- and 38-Across |
| 39% | FASHION | 7 | With 37-Across, up on the latest trends, and a fitting description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 39% | THELAMBS | 8 | Silence of these, with Clarice and Dr. Lecter |
| 39% | SIGNONTHE | 9 | With 60-Across, ink a contract ... or a feature of 17-, 25- and 37-Across |
| 39% | BYE | 3 | With 38 and 39 Across, NSYNC hit of 2000 |
| 39% | THEMAMAS | 8 | With 41- and 54-Across, group with a 1967 ballad version of 39-/41-/ 42-Across |
| 38% | COOKIE | 6 | With 36-Across, mass-produced ... and what each of four black squares in this puzzle is? |
| 38% | STATE | 5 | With 54-Across, the theme of this puzzle [hint: New Hampshire] |
| 38% | SHELLEY | 7 | With 37-Across, she won two Best Supporting Actress Oscars, for "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue" |
| 38% | BLACK | 5 | With 41- and 43-Across, cop cruiser ... or a description of the five animals named in this puzzle |
| 38% | TAN | 3 | With 69-Across, beach markings ... 14 of which are hidden vertically and horizontally elsewhere in this puzzle |
| 38% | BORNWITHA | 9 | With 37- and 50-Across, privileged |
| 38% | ITWASTHEBEST | 12 | With 36 and 57 Across, ''A Tale of Two Cities'' beginning |
| 37% | SAMSMITH | 8 | Grammy-winning singer of "Stay With Me," 15-Across, 20-Across, and 37-Across (2 wds.) |
| 37% | IFYOUCHOKE | 10 | With 37- and 67-Across, a question |
| 37% | IWONDERWHERETHE | 15 | With 37- and 38-Across, a musing |