| 100% | BARKUPTHE | 9 | With 60 Across, pursue incorrect assumptions |
| 51% | UPA | 3 | With 60 Across, cornered |
| 50% | RARA | 4 | With 60 Across, unusual thing |
| 48% | RON | 3 | Rowling kid with 60 Across |
| 48% | LEONARD | 7 | With 60 Across, composer born August 25, 1918 |
| 48% | UPPERLEFTTO | 11 | With 60 Across, the message's slanted place |
| 41% | OUR | 3 | With 60-Across, Thornton Wilder play |
| 41% | LETSMAKEITATRUE | 15 | With 60-Across, risky "Jeopardy!" declaration |
| 41% | DOASISAY | 8 | With 60-Across, hypocrite's mantra |
| 41% | ITS | 3 | With 60-Across, "That's right" |
| 40% | URSA | 4 | With 60-Across, a group of stars |
| 40% | BOOBERRYPIEAND | 14 | With 60-Across, answer to the riddle |
| 40% | HOT | 3 | With 60-Across, East Asian cuisine style |
| 40% | DAYSO | 5 | With 60-Across, long-running NBC soap |
| 39% | ATOM | 4 | With 60-Across, 1960's TV cartoon hero |
| 39% | ASIAN | 5 | With 60-Across, Michelle Kwan or Michelle Wie |
| 39% | SEIZE | 5 | With 60-Across, take control after a coup |
| 39% | OLE | 3 | Adjective sometimes used with 60-Across |
| 38% | PRESIDENTOF | 11 | With 60-Across, 1994-99 role for 36-Across |
| 38% | AMY | 3 | With 60-Across, author of "The Joy Luck Club" |
| 38% | READMYLIPS | 10 | With 60-Across, much-heard sound bite of 1988 |
| 38% | ROBERT | 6 | With 60-Across, player of Tony Soprano's son |
| 38% | THE | 3 | With 60-Across, last words of a fairy tale |
| 38% | HEY | 3 | With 60-Down, song by 56-Across |
| 38% | PLAYOFF | 7 | With 15 Across, growth for many a player pursuing the Stanley Cup |
| 37% | IFITOLDYOUTHEN | 14 | With 60-Across, what a keeper of confidential information might say |
| 37% | AUDI | 4 | 60-Across with a four-ring logo |
| 35% | XXXXXX | 6 | With 60-Across, town with a stop on the D.C. Metro (3) |
| 35% | SWISSARMY | 9 | With 60-Across, contraption that usually includes the answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | LAND | 4 | With 60-Across, ones whose livelihoods are derived from agriculture or forestry work |