| 100% | COMES | 5 | With 5-Across, originates in |
| 71% | TERRE | 5 | With 5-Across, city in western Indiana |
| 69% | PIT | 3 | With 5-Across, times for tire changes in NASCAR |
| 68% | FIRST | 5 | With 5-Across, baby's milestone ... or a hint to the hidden layer in this puzzle's Across clues |
| 68% | STAY | 4 | With 5-Across, "Keep being socially aware," in modern slang |
| 68% | VIBE | 4 | With 5-Across, assessment of the feeling in the room |
| 66% | BROWN | 5 | With 5 Across, paper lunch holder |
| 65% | WISH | 4 | With 5-Across, Thanksgiving-dinner staple that's aptly presented in this grid |
| 65% | ZOOM | 4 | With 5 Across, camera's closeup attachment |
| 63% | COMING | 6 | With 5-Across, arriving in the area in the vein of this week's visitor |
| 61% | HAW | 3 | Partner in indecision with 5-Across |
| 59% | BANK | 4 | With 5-Down, one seen in a cage |
| 59% | LIP | 3 | With 5-Down, match, in a way |
| 58% | ALA | 3 | With 5-Down, priced separately, in restaurants: 2 wds. |
| 58% | CHAIN | 5 | With 5-Down, shop in a mall, often |
| 57% | FINALFRONTIER | 13 | With "The," what "space" is, in the intro to 5-/58-Across: 2 wds. |
| 57% | CSI | 3 | With 5-Down, long-running forensic series set in Florida |
| 56% | PEAR | 4 | With 63 Across, ''partridge in a'' place |
| 56% | CHIA | 4 | With 65 Across, morsel in a smoothie |
| 56% | DOESNTKNOW | 10 | With 73 Across, is in ignorance regarding |
| 56% | FACE | 4 | With 5 Across, company that the 14 Down is suing for allegedly breaking antitrust laws |
| 56% | GROW | 4 | With 5-Across, fade |
| 56% | ZOOM | 4 | With 5-Across, quickly |
| 56% | WIFE | 4 | With 5-Across, fiancée |
| 56% | THE | 3 | With 5-Across, Dixie |
| 56% | FOR | 3 | With 5-Across, permanently |
| 56% | WABI | 4 | With 5-Down, rhyming Japanese philosophy of finding beauty in imperfection |
| 56% | TABLE | 5 | With 5-Down, it's often shaken out in a diner |
| 56% | MONKEES | 7 | Band that originated in a 1960s sitcom, with The |
| 55% | FISHOUT | 7 | With 49 Across, person in an unaccustomed environment |