| 100% | YOUMUSTBE | 9 | With 39- and 63-Across, a divorce lawyer's guarantee? |
| 52% | THERESAMAY | 10 | With 39 and 56 Across, how a Tory and a pundit might differ in decisiveness |
| 48% | THEEND | 6 | With 39-Across, doomsayer's assertion ... or a phonetic hint to 18-, 24-, 51- and 61-Across |
| 47% | SIR | 3 | With 39-Across and 58-Down, response to a military command |
| 45% | CHIEFJUSTICE | 12 | With 39 and 44 Across, the most major magistrate |
| 44% | BETWEEN | 7 | With 39-Across, a description of the answers inside 17-, 24-, 49- and 60-Across |
| 42% | MAKELIKEA | 9 | With 63- and 65-Across, go away as a soda jerk might? |
| 42% | ICANSHOW | 8 | With 39- and 44-Across, promise that Aladdin sings to Jasmine (and a hint to the answers to the starred clues) |
| 42% | THEMAMAS | 8 | With 41- and 54-Across, group with a 1967 ballad version of 39-/41-/ 42-Across |
| 42% | POTENTIALCONSEQUENCES | 21 | With 44-, 63-, 77- and 93-Across, a long-winded piece of advice |
| 41% | TOP | 3 | With 39-Across, refill to capacity ... or a hint to interpreting the clues at 17-, 27-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 41% | AGREEKSTOICSAID | 15 | With 27- and 47-Across, a philosophy prof's remark |
| 41% | CAPTAIN | 7 | With 63-Across, superhero with "wedgie power" ... and a description of 20-, 36-, or 54-Across |
| 41% | PEAR | 4 | With 63 Across, ''partridge in a'' place |
| 41% | THE | 3 | With 63- and 64-Across, privileged info, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 40% | BYE | 3 | With 38 and 39 Across, NSYNC hit of 2000 |
| 40% | DONTBIGEMPTY | 12 | With 45 Across, a query put to Bob Hope in 1939's The Cat and the Canary |
| 40% | CAMPOUT | 7 | Activity with a tent and s'mores |
| 40% | BUTDOCTOR | 9 | With 14 and 19 Across, punchline of a joke about a clown |
| 40% | YOUR | 4 | With 37- and 39-Across, book and TV series on human evolution, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 39% | TWORHYMINGWORDS | 15 | With 27-, 39-, 46- and 62-Across, a brain teaser, whose answer appears in the circled squares |
| 39% | QUE | 3 | With 39-Across, a common greeting |
| 39% | DODOSOLSOLLALASOL | 17 | With 39-Across, a familiar tune |
| 39% | THE | 3 | With 39-Across, a 60-Across play |
| 39% | WHATA | 5 | With 15 and 20 Across, a 1967 song sung by Louis Armstrong in "Good Morning, Vietnam" |
| 38% | SUEME | 5 | "Guys and Dolls" song with the lyric "Call a lawyer" |
| 38% | EDWARDTUDORAROYALHEIR | 21 | With 39- and 54-Across, the beginning of the story |
| 38% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 38% | IFYOUCHOKE | 10 | With 37- and 67-Across, a question |
| 38% | IWONDERWHERETHE | 15 | With 37- and 38-Across, a musing |