| 100% | ABRAHAM | 7 | With 39-Across, signer of the 23-/51-Across |
| 70% | GEORGE | 6 | With 39 Across, coiner of the slogan |
| 65% | SMACK | 5 | With 33-Down, precisely, as in the middle of 17-, 23-, 51- and 62-Across |
| 60% | LEADERBOARD | 11 | List of top-scoring players, and what the start of 17-, 23-, 39-, or 51-Across could be called? |
| 60% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 58% | UMBERTO | 7 | With 39-Across, "The Name of the Rose" writer |
| 57% | EDWARDTUDORAROYALHEIR | 21 | With 39- and 54-Across, the beginning of the story |
| 57% | ALBERT | 6 | With 23-Across, author of the general theory of relativity |
| 57% | TEE | 3 | With 51-Across, end of the London blitz? |
| 57% | OSCAR | 5 | With 70-Across, source of the quip at 21-, 39- and 58-Across |
| 57% | ARLO | 4 | With 23-Across, singer of the song referenced at 6-Down |
| 57% | PRIMECUTS | 9 | The starts of 18-, 23-, 39- and 52-Across |
| 56% | FIFTEEN | 7 | With 39 Across, quarter of an hour |
| 56% | YOU | 3 | With 39-Across, answer to the question "Who's the solver of this puzzle?" |
| 56% | MURDER | 6 | With 23-Across, subtitle of the first season of "American Horror Story" |
| 56% | YASSIR | 6 | With 67-Down, signer of the Oslo Accords |
| 55% | SAINT | 5 | With 51-Across, early adopter of the A.D. dating method |
| 55% | ENGLISH | 7 | With 39 Across, water north of France |
| 55% | IRON | 4 | With 21 Across, one of the Avengers |
| 55% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 55% | GOING | 5 | With 39- and 42-Across, activity of the spirits in this puzzle |
| 54% | ALLFORONE | 9 | With 24 Across, slogan of The Three Musketeers |
| 54% | BETWEEN | 7 | With 39-Across, a description of the answers inside 17-, 24-, 49- and 60-Across |
| 53% | TEN | 3 | Number of American League pennants the Yankees won with 39-Across on the team |
| 53% | NATURAL | 7 | With 39-Across, subject of study represented literally by the words spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 53% | ABRAHAM | 7 | With 51 Across, source of quote |
| 52% | KNOTS | 5 | Word that can follow the starts of 17-, 23-, 51- and 59-Across |
| 52% | WATERLOGGED | 11 | Saturated like the ends of 17-, 23-, 39- and 50-Across? |
| 52% | DAVID | 5 | With 43-Across, singer of the lyric formed by the first parts of 20-, 24-, 40-, 51- and 58-Across |
| 52% | GEORGE | 6 | With 24 Across, loser of the first really serious pie fight? |