| 100% | EXCUSEMEOFFICER | 15 | With 38- and 60-Across, what the man caught taking a dip in the reservoir said |
| 43% | THATSALL | 8 | With 63-Across, "The end" ... or what can be said about the novels in the clues for 25-, 38- and 52-Across |
| 40% | AYE | 3 | With 4-Across, what the pirate said on his 80th birthday, in a dad joke |
| 38% | TOP | 3 | With 66-Across, place on a keyboard to find all the letters in 16-, 28-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 38% | ATEFORTWO | 9 | Dined with a bun in the oven, or what can be found in 17-, 26-, 40-, and 51-Across |
| 38% | WELCOMETOMY | 11 | With 59-Across, what one might say when entering the starts of 16-, 24-, and 38-Across? |
| 37% | SWIM | 4 | Take a dip in the pool |
| 37% | SWIM | 4 | Take a dip in the lake |
| 37% | SWIM | 4 | Take a dip in the river |
| 37% | SWAM | 4 | Took a dip in the pool |
| 37% | NO | 2 | With 38-Across, what a two-letter answer is in a crossword, usually ... or a hint to 20-, 24-, 44- and 51-Across |
| 37% | PEA | 3 | "A seed with three letters in my name. Take away two and I still sound the same. What am I?" |
| 37% | DRY | 3 | With 10 Across, what cannot be seen in the house after a tearjerker |
| 36% | AMESSAGEIN | 10 | With 38- and 56-Across, what's hidden in this puzzle |
| 36% | HALF | 4 | With 38- and 40-Across, grocery purchase ... or what can be found in some other Across answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | BATHE | 5 | Take a soak in the tub, say |
| 36% | ROYALFLUSH | 10 | What's hidden at the ends of 17-, 23-, 29-, 43- and 47-Across--if all are in, say, 38-Across |
| 36% | SWIMSUITS | 9 | Outfits worn for taking a dip in the pool |
| 36% | LEGALIZED | 9 | With 20 Across, what the people of AZ, NJ, MT, and SD voted for by proposition in 2020 |
| 36% | BERRA | 5 | Yankee Yogi who's credited with saying "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" |
| 35% | CROSSPARTYLINES | 15 | Act in a bipartisan way, and what the circled letters do Across and Down |
| 35% | STALEMATERIAL | 13 | Dated jokes ... and what the ends of four Across answers are, in a way |
| 35% | ROCKANDROLL | 11 | Genre with a Hall of Fame in Cleveland … or what can follow the respective halves of 17-, 33- and 40-Across |
| 35% | DOWNINGTHEBALL | 14 | Taking a knee in the end zone, say |
| 35% | CANIGETANAMEN | 13 | "Anyone agree with me?" and a hint to what's hidden in the starred answers |
| 35% | SPIN | 4 | Take a turn in the Game of Life, say |
| 35% | SWIMMABLE | 9 | Safe to take a dip in, say |
| 34% | IFITOLDYOUTHEN | 14 | With 60-Across, what a keeper of confidential information might say |
| 34% | SCARLET | 7 | With 38-Across, symbols of a scandal ... or what 16-, 23-, 47- and 58-Across consist of (in their entirety)? |
| 34% | CLOSEBUTNOCIGAR | 15 | "Not quite!," and what can be said about a letter string in the answer to each starred clue |