| 100% | TRADE | 5 | With 58-Across, exhibition of the latest wares |
| 54% | MONTYPYTHON | 11 | With 58-Across, 1975 comedy that includes the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog |
| 52% | STICKY | 6 | With 58-Across, predicament, and a description of both halves of the starred answers |
| 50% | HIVE | 4 | With 58-Across, collective consciousness ... or a hint to the ends of 19-, 35- and 52-Across |
| 50% | STEVE | 5 | With 58-Across, first host of "The Tonight Show" |
| 49% | CHEESE | 6 | With 58-Across, savory base for a canapé ... and the function of a black square in four puzzle rows? |
| 49% | IRON | 4 | With 21 Across, one of the Avengers |
| 49% | GEORGE | 6 | With 39 Across, coiner of the slogan |
| 49% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 48% | ALLFORONE | 9 | With 24 Across, slogan of The Three Musketeers |
| 48% | MOPPED | 6 | Handled the last details of, with "up" |
| 48% | MOPPING | 7 | Handling the last details of, with "up" |
| 48% | SCRAMBLEDEGGS | 13 | Breakfast order ... and a hint to the last words of 17-, 26-, 51- and 58-Across |
| 47% | PLAYINGWITHFIRE | 15 | Doing something risky ... or a hint to the last words of 18-, 24-, 49- and 58-Across |
| 47% | LIMIT | 5 | Word that can follow the last parts of 16- and 58-Across and 10- and 34-Down |
| 47% | FIST | 4 | The last parts of 20- and 60-Across and 10- and 36-Down are things you can do with this |
| 47% | RESERVE | 7 | What one can do to the last parts of 17- and 58-Across and 11- and 28-Down |
| 46% | OSCAR | 5 | With 70-Across, source of the quip at 21-, 39- and 58-Across |
| 46% | GEORGE | 6 | With 24 Across, loser of the first really serious pie fight? |
| 46% | OTIS | 4 | With 72 Across, the King of Elevator Music? |
| 46% | PTERODACTYL | 11 | Extinct flying reptile of the late Jurassic period with a long slender head and neck |
| 45% | COEN | 4 | Last name associated with The Ballad of Buster Scruggs |
| 45% | SCOTT | 5 | With 18-Across, author of "Presumed Innocent" and "The Last Trial" |
| 45% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 45% | THEFIRSTTIMEEVERI | 17 | With 127 Across, the best-selling hat song of 1972? |
| 45% | TIMEHEALS | 9 | With 12 Across, maxim stressing the natural resolution of problems |
| 45% | FREDDIE | 7 | With 58-Across, iconic frontman of 39-Across |
| 44% | ASPEN | 5 | With 58-Across, quaker in the woods |
| 44% | NEE | 3 | Originally with the last name of |
| 44% | FINALE | 6 | What's spelled by the last letters of the six long Across phrases |