| 100% | THE | 3 | With 59-Across, TV home for this puzzle's five featured TV personalities |
| 43% | OCTO | 4 | Numerical prefix ... or, with 62-Across, another name for this puzzle's key symbol |
| 43% | CLARINET | 8 | With 59-Across, hint to this puzzle's secret |
| 43% | SPICE | 5 | With 69-Across, locales for this puzzle's theme |
| 42% | FLIP | 4 | With 65-Across, part of a record ... or what each of this puzzle's five long Across answers has? |
| 42% | PEANUTS | 7 | With 66-Across, possible title for this puzzle |
| 42% | JACKIN | 6 | With 39-Across, apt title for this puzzle |
| 42% | JOHNNY | 6 | With 36-Across, "Babes in Arms" tune that's apt for this puzzle |
| 40% | RAINING | 7 | With 41-Across, title for this puzzle |
| 39% | SAYHELLOTOMY | 12 | With 48-Across, memorable Al Pacino movie line ... or a hint for this puzzle's theme |
| 39% | BRAD | 4 | With 59-Down, star of the work revealed by the first letters of the Across clues, which hint at this puzzle's theme |
| 39% | SWEET | 5 | With 62-Across, a possible title for this puzzle |
| 39% | SHIFT | 5 | With 61-Across, a possible title for this puzzle |
| 39% | SWAP | 4 | With 67-Across, an appropriate title for this puzzle? |
| 39% | ATEAM | 5 | TV/movie group associated with this puzzle's theme? |
| 38% | TOE | 3 | Digit associated with the starts of this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 38% | AREVERSAL | 9 | With 31-Down, feature of this puzzle's theme entries |
| 38% | PICTURE | 7 | With 36-Across, what this puzzle features, literally |
| 38% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 37% | MOVING | 6 | With 58-Down, vehicle for people on the go? ... or a hint to five strategically placed answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | TENNIS | 6 | With 47-Down, title for this puzzle |
| 36% | UMINUM | 6 | With 42-Down, home construction material ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 36% | RAN | 3 | With 64-Across, chanced upon, and this puzzle's theme |
| 36% | JOHNNY | 6 | With 35-Across, third in a series of five TV personalities (1962-92) |
| 36% | JAY | 3 | With 22-Across, fourth in a series of five TV personalities (1992-2009) |
| 36% | STEVE | 5 | With 66-Across, first in a series of five TV personalities (1954-57) |
| 36% | JACK | 4 | With 65-Across, second in a series of five TV personalities (1957-62) |
| 36% | ATTENDANCE | 10 | Teacher's duty [the basis for five anagrams in this puzzle] |
| 36% | PISAITALY | 9 | Home to this puzzle's featured structure, as hinted at by the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | NAME | 4 | With 50- and 53-Down, apt title for this puzzle |