| 100% | LETITSNOW | 9 | With 37-Across and 37-Across, a holiday song |
| 68% | THEYLIVED | 9 | With 37-Across, and 59-Across, a familiar finale |
| 66% | OTANNENBAUM | 11 | Seasonal song with a hint to the last words in 17-, 25-, 37- and 45-Across |
| 66% | WHATA | 5 | With 15 and 20 Across, a 1967 song sung by Louis Armstrong in "Good Morning, Vietnam" |
| 63% | IFYOUCHOKE | 10 | With 37- and 67-Across, a question |
| 63% | IWONDERWHERETHE | 15 | With 37- and 38-Across, a musing |
| 63% | IALWAYSTHOUGHTI | 15 | With 37- and 60-Across, a musing |
| 62% | HOWTOWINFRIENDS | 15 | With 37- and 61-Across, a 1936 title |
| 62% | EVERYSPRING | 11 | With 37- and 64-Across, a seasonal observation |
| 62% | PASTPERFORMANCE | 15 | With 37- and 57-Across, a common warning |
| 61% | ODDS | 4 | With 37- Across and 44-Down, miscellany |
| 61% | DREAMSARE | 9 | With 36 Across and 61 Across, a quote by Lupita Nyong'o |
| 60% | ADDAMS | 6 | With 27-Across and 37-Across, Anjelica Huston/Raúl Juliá film with a first Thanksgiving reenactment scene |
| 59% | HEAD | 4 | With 37-Across, hair accessory ... or a literal hint to 19-, 27-, 47- and 56-Across |
| 59% | SECRET | 6 | With 37-Across, Election Day practice ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 59% | DARK | 4 | With 37-Across, fall of Rome aftermath, and a hint to the puzzle theme |
| 59% | DONOTFORSAKE | 12 | With 49-Across, theme song of 37- and 38-Across |
| 58% | MAIL | 4 | With 37-Across, perform perfunctorily … or a hint to the ends of 16-, 25-, 41- and 55-Across |
| 58% | WHEELOF | 7 | With 37-Across, card in a tarot deck, and a hint to each circled letter set |
| 57% | HALLS | 5 | Areas decked with holly in a holiday song |
| 57% | DONTCRYFOR | 10 | With 115 Across, song from a WAC musical? |
| 57% | JEANIEWITH | 10 | With 99 Across, song about a carnival attraction? |
| 57% | TILTA | 5 | With 37-Across, spinning amusement ride, and a hint to this puzzle's design and circled letters |
| 57% | DELLA | 5 | With 37-Across, "Touched by an Angel" actress who played a landlady on "Chico and the Man" |
| 57% | SIGNONTHE | 9 | With 60-Across, ink a contract ... or a feature of 17-, 25- and 37-Across |
| 57% | SPLIT | 5 | With 51-Across, nitpick ... or a hint to 17-, 37- and 60-Across |
| 57% | MEDICAL | 7 | With 37 Across, health-care jobs of 19 and 49 Across |
| 56% | NOEL | 4 | Seasonal song ... or a phonetic hint to 18-, 23-, 37-, 52- and 59-Across |
| 55% | FASHION | 7 | With 37-Across, up on the latest trends, and a fitting description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 54% | BANANA | 6 | With 37-Across, some ice cream confections … or a hint to the second, fifth, eleventh and fourteenth rows of this puzzle |