| 100% | DREAM | 5 | With 48-Across, fabled squad of the 1992 Olympics |
| 45% | MRS | 3 | 48-Across, north of the border |
| 43% | ROBERTH | 7 | With 51-Across, author of the treatise |
| 43% | LAKE | 4 | With 5-Across, source of the Truckee River |
| 42% | LIVE | 4 | With 7-Across, be in the lap of luxury |
| 42% | VIBE | 4 | With 5-Across, assessment of the feeling in the room |
| 41% | GOBLIN | 6 | With 13-Across, Oxford's 2022 Word of the Year |
| 41% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 41% | GEORGE | 6 | With 39 Across, coiner of the slogan |
| 41% | MICHAEL | 7 | With 33-Across, one of the two singers on 15-Across |
| 41% | MONTYPYTHON | 11 | With 58-Across, 1975 comedy that includes the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog |
| 41% | TIPTOE | 6 | With 63-Across, song in the 1929 film Gold Diggers of Broadway |
| 40% | OTIS | 4 | With 72 Across, the King of Elevator Music? |
| 40% | LIRPA | 5 | With 1-Across, a normal answer for a totally normal day of the year |
| 39% | PATTI | 5 | With 40-Across, daughter of the 40th president who wrote "The Long Goodbye" |
| 39% | COMING | 6 | With 5-Across, arriving in the area in the vein of this week's visitor |
| 39% | XANDY | 5 | With 30-Across, what most numbers in the clues of this year's puzzles represent |
| 38% | NASTIA | 6 | With 35-Across, 2008 Olympic gold medalist inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2018 |
| 38% | ALLFORONE | 9 | With 15- and 22-Across, catchphrase of the Three Musketeers |
| 38% | MEASURETWICE | 12 | With 66-Across, carpentry adage that also describes the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 38% | WILLY | 5 | With 35-Across, the lead role in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" |
| 37% | PRIDE | 5 | With 57-Across, time period honoring the group hinted at by the beginning of the starred clues |
| 37% | BOOBY | 5 | With 127 Across, one of many devices thwarting the burglars in "Home Alone" |
| 37% | PEPPERS | 7 | With 15 Across, illusion that uses a reflection to create the appearance of a phantom |
| 36% | LEAVETHE | 8 | With 32-Across, Silk Sonic single that won the 2022 Grammy for Song of the Year: 2 wds. |
| 36% | NATURAL | 7 | With 39-Across, subject of study represented literally by the words spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 36% | TARA | 4 | With 46-Down, star of the Sharknado franchise |
| 36% | XBOXLIVE | 8 | Service for playing Call of Duty in real time with someone across the country, say |
| 36% | FASHION | 7 | With 37-Across, up on the latest trends, and a fitting description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 36% | DEAD | 4 | With 8-Across, subject of a theory that claims that most of the activity on social media is generated by bots |