| 100% | UNOFFICIALSTART | 15 | With 55 Across, what 19 Across signifies |
| 62% | TWOHUNDREDTH | 12 | With 41 and 55 Across, what 15 Across is |
| 54% | SQUARE | 6 | With 55-Across, what the circled letters, reading clockwise, form |
| 50% | POLICELINE | 10 | With 55 Across, crime scene warning |
| 50% | HELEAVESNO | 10 | With 37-Across, what the music critic said about 55-Across? |
| 48% | BETWEENSCYLLA | 13 | With 55 Across, dilemma-bound (from the ''Odyssey'') |
| 48% | ALAN | 4 | With 55 Across, ''Little Miss Sunshine'' Oscar winner |
| 48% | HITTHE | 6 | With 55 Across, 1961 hit for Ray Charles |
| 48% | THELANDDIVIDED | 14 | With 55 Across, transportation slogan of 100 years ago |
| 47% | MYSTERIOUS | 10 | With 19 Across, the Orient |
| 47% | IONIC | 5 | With 19 Across, compound connection |
| 47% | EZRAKLEIN | 9 | Co-author with Derek Thompson of 19 Across |
| 47% | ONEOFTHOSE | 10 | With 29 Across, what the meditating mechanic had? |
| 46% | SPEAKTHEANSWERS | 15 | What to do with 14 Across |
| 46% | DAIRY | 5 | With 19 Across, milking workers, quaintly |
| 46% | MONTYPYTHONS | 12 | With 55 Across, BBC series that premiered 50 years ago tomorrow |
| 46% | NIGHT | 5 | With 55-Down, what happens multilingually in the circles |
| 46% | IRON | 4 | With 59 Across, what's attached to some benches |
| 46% | MISS | 4 | With 19 Across, a certain pageant winner |
| 46% | RENTS | 5 | Does business with 19 Across |
| 45% | MONO | 4 | With 27 Across, what 1 Across/5 Across is accused of becoming |
| 45% | MAP | 3 | With 59 Across, what's found within many a legend |
| 45% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 45% | TIC | 3 | With 50 and 55 Across, the ''central'' theme |
| 44% | REVENGEOF | 9 | With 15 Across, what today marks for some Star Wars aficionados |
| 44% | TURKEYDINNERWITH | 16 | With 45 Across, what male foxes look forward to in November? |
| 44% | LIFEWITHOUT | 11 | With 65 Across, what some 1992 and '96 voters dreamed of? |
| 44% | ACHAIRWENTUP | 12 | With 71 Across, what happened on an infamous episode of Geraldo? |
| 44% | SILICONVALLEY | 13 | What 19 and 56 Across are credited as founding |
| 44% | LETTHEM | 7 | With 19 Across, phrase wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette |