| 100% | AGAINST | 7 | With 46-Across, song containing the lyric in this puzzle |
| 56% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 56% | SECRET | 6 | With 46-Across, some areas in Clue … or a hint to the first, fourth, twelfth and fifteenth rows of this puzzle |
| 53% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 51% | START | 5 | All the clues in this puzzle do this with 36-Across |
| 47% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter "C" |
| 47% | MONEYONMYMIND | 13 | 46-Across song from the album "In the Lonely Hour" with the lyric "I felt pressure / Don't wanna see the numbers" (4 wds.) |
| 46% | XISTHE | 6 | With 46-Across, an observation about the game in this grid |
| 46% | MONEYONMYMIND | 13 | 46-Across song from the album "In the Lonely Hour" with the lyric "I felt pressure / Don't want to see the numbers" (4 wds.) |
| 46% | IVETOLDYOUNOW | 13 | 46-Across song from the album "In the Lonely Hour" with the lyric "Wasting all my precious time / Oh, the truth spills out" (4 wds.) |
| 46% | MAINSTREET | 10 | Top 40 song by 46-Across with the lyrics "I drift back in time and I find my feet" |
| 45% | NIGHTMOVES | 10 | Top 10 song by 46-Across with the lyrics "Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 44% | LIKEICAN | 8 | 46-Across song from the album "In the Lonely Hour" with the lyric "There may be lovers who hold out their hands but / He'll never love you" (3 wds.) |
| 44% | LIKEICAN | 8 | 46-Across song from the album "In the Lonely Hour" with the lyric "There may be lovers who hold out their hands, but / They'll never love you" (3 wds.) |
| 44% | LETFLY | 6 | Something to do with the shapes in this puzzle? |
| 43% | INVISIBLE | 9 | 52-Across song with the lyric "Then I could just watch you in your room" |
| 43% | LETSDANCE | 9 | Classic David Bowie song with the lyric "Put on your red shoes," and an apt title for this puzzle |
| 43% | ATOMICNUMBERS | 13 | What this puzzle's two-letter answers correspond with, given their locations in the grid |
| 43% | GOING | 5 | With 39- and 42-Across, activity of the spirits in this puzzle |
| 43% | MOONRIVER | 9 | Song with the lyric "I'm crossing you in style someday" |
| 42% | SOMEONES | 8 | "___ in the kitchen with Dinah" (old song lyric) |
| 42% | IVEBEENAMINERFORA | 17 | With 113-Across, 1972 song lyric hinting at this puzzle's theme |
| 42% | MOELARRY | 8 | With 46 Across, the Three Stooges |
| 41% | AGATHA | 6 | With 46-Across, Pam Ferris character who was the tough headmistress in "Matilda" |
| 41% | EVITA | 5 | Musical with the song "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" with lyrics by Tim Rice |
| 41% | ICRY | 4 | Usher song with the lyric "'Cause these tears won't dry" |
| 41% | YIDDISH | 7 | Source of the six longest Across answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | PEST | 4 | The Szechenyi Chain Bridge, constructed in 1849, went across the Danube to connect Buda with this city |
| 40% | BLACKBIRD | 9 | Beatles song with the lyric "Take these broken wings and learn to fly" |