| 100% | RATA | 4 | With 59-Across, a knock |
| 80% | MAP | 3 | With 59 Across, what's found within many a legend |
| 74% | NEXTTIME | 8 | With 59-Across, a heckler's interruption |
| 74% | ROGER | 5 | With 59-Across, a 35-Down portrayer |
| 71% | MAIN | 4 | With 59-Across, A-B-C-A in the illustration |
| 68% | SUSPENDED | 9 | With 59 Across, dormancy |
| 68% | ILLDOANYTHINGTO | 15 | With 59 Across, ''Apologies!'' |
| 66% | EUBIE | 5 | With 59 Across, jazz composer/pianist |
| 66% | AMFM | 4 | With 59 Across, dashboard audio device |
| 66% | RED | 3 | With 59 Across, unwanted photo effect |
| 65% | WHERENOMANHAS | 13 | With 59 Across, Captain Kirk's heading? |
| 65% | KODAK | 5 | With 59 Across, the slogan's subject |
| 64% | SKIPPING | 8 | With 59-Across, lakeside activity ... or a hint to the words spelled across the fifth, eighth and 11th rows of the completed grid |
| 63% | IRON | 4 | With 59 Across, what's attached to some benches |
| 62% | REELIN | 6 | Land with a 59-Across |
| 61% | THEYLIVED | 9 | With 37-Across, and 59-Across, a familiar finale |
| 60% | ELECTRICCOMPANY | 15 | Album for which 59-Across won a Grammy, 1972, with "The" |
| 60% | STAR | 4 | With 59-Across, 1977 film for which 46-Across won a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Golden Globe |
| 60% | BUT | 3 | With 75 Across, a gas |
| 59% | WHISTLERSMOTHER | 15 | With 59-Down, computer component for a referee? |
| 59% | LIME | 4 | With 56 Across, a summer cooler |
| 59% | KEY | 3 | With 52 Across, a Florida attraction |
| 59% | RON | 3 | With 136 Across, a rum brand |
| 59% | YES | 3 | With 89 Across, a confident assent |
| 59% | ONE | 3 | With 41 Across, a vitamin brand |
| 59% | LIFE | 4 | With 127 Across, a popular candy |
| 59% | DEMONSAREA | 10 | With 105 Across, a Halloween tune? |
| 58% | ARE | 3 | With 62 Across, a question of confirmation |
| 58% | UTAH | 4 | With 20 Across, a Pac-12 school |
| 58% | MISS | 4 | With 19 Across, a certain pageant winner |