| 100% | RON | 3 | With 46-Across, a successor to Buster Crabbe |
| 55% | GOOD | 4 | With 46-Across, what a considerate speaker tries to strike |
| 51% | TUNAFISH | 8 | With 46 Across, bread with a ''chunk light'' filling |
| 50% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 48% | LENO | 4 | A successor to 22-Across |
| 48% | SECRET | 6 | With 46-Across, some areas in Clue … or a hint to the first, fourth, twelfth and fifteenth rows of this puzzle |
| 46% | BUBBLEBUBBLE | 12 | With 72 Across, reason to call a plumber? |
| 45% | CELL | 4 | With 42 Across, device to send a text with |
| 45% | BENJAMIN | 8 | With 46-Across, a founder of the United States |
| 45% | LUCK | 4 | With 15 Across, party you might bring a dish to |
| 44% | WORKINGHARDOR | 13 | With 47 Across, facetious question to someone putting in a shift |
| 44% | GEISHA | 6 | Hostess with a 46 Across |
| 43% | NOVUS | 5 | With 46-Across, phrase on the back of a buck |
| 43% | MELLOW | 6 | With 46-Across, colorful rhyme for a 1966 Donovan hit |
| 43% | WHITEHOUSE | 10 | With 50 Across, to whom Tom Hanks gave a 39 Across in 2017 |
| 43% | MEANY | 5 | A successor to Gompers |
| 43% | EDEN | 4 | A successor to Churchill |
| 42% | DONTBIGEMPTY | 12 | With 45 Across, a query put to Bob Hope in 1939's The Cat and the Canary |
| 41% | MOELARRY | 8 | With 46 Across, the Three Stooges |
| 41% | STOPSTARING | 11 | With 46 Across, modern ''Pay attention!'' |
| 41% | ELIHU | 5 | With 46 Across, Ivy League benefactor |
| 41% | PEPPERS | 7 | With 15 Across, illusion that uses a reflection to create the appearance of a phantom |
| 41% | SISTER | 6 | With 64 Across, Audre Lorde book... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 41% | FIFTY | 5 | 46-Across, with respect to this answer's location |
| 41% | FROMRAGS | 8 | With 46 Across, full-range, wealth-wise |
| 41% | THANKSGIVING | 12 | With 49-Across, turkey, to a feaster |
| 41% | BLUE | 4 | Word with "bell" to make a purple bloom that is spread across North America |
| 40% | SEVEN | 5 | With 47-Across, a third way to make 60-Across |
| 40% | RUDOLPHTHE | 10 | With 57 Across, a more accurate way to describe the guy who works the mother of all night jobs? |
| 40% | CHIN | 4 | With 67-Across, attachment to a string instrument |