| 100% | SHOULDISTAY | 11 | With 61-Across, 1982 question from the Clash |
| 47% | FOURTEEN | 8 | With 61-Across, what President Wilson proposed for a lasting peace ... or what's missing from the answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | WHATATIME | 9 | With 16 Across, exclamation from one living in the moment |
| 44% | WAVES | 5 | Greets with a hand gesture from across the street |
| 44% | FULLCOUNT | 9 | With 61-Across, follower of the five starred clues |
| 43% | YOUCANTHAVEYOUR | 15 | With 61-Across, what the judge said to the bigamist? |
| 43% | BIG | 3 | With 61-Down, description of the 1-Across |
| 43% | DOIHAVETO | 9 | Question from the unwilling |
| 43% | HOWDOYOUP | 9 | Question from the judge |
| 43% | HOW | 3 | Question from the befuddled |
| 43% | MUSTI | 5 | Question from the reluctant |
| 43% | MAYISEE | 7 | Question from the curious |
| 43% | UPTO | 4 | With 61 Across, current |
| 42% | AREWETHERE | 10 | Question from the back seat |
| 42% | WHYME | 5 | Question from the picked-upon |
| 42% | HOOT | 4 | With 61 Across, night fliers |
| 42% | SEWED | 5 | With 61 Across, thread line |
| 42% | BETWEENSCYLLA | 13 | With 55 Across, dilemma-bound (from the ''Odyssey'') |
| 42% | PROFILESIN | 10 | With 61 Across, 1956 best-seller |
| 41% | STEVEN | 6 | With 69-Across, asker of the question |
| 41% | NASA | 4 | Org. concerned with 61 Across |
| 41% | NOGALES | 7 | Arizona city across the border from a city of Sonora with the same name |
| 41% | CLEMSON | 7 | With 61-Across, two-time N.C.A.A. football champs of the 2010s |
| 40% | ANDCROWNTHYGOOD | 15 | With 59-Across, lyric from "America, the Beautiful" |
| 40% | THANKS | 6 | With 53 Across, hesitant answer to the question "Who starred with M. Ryan in 'Sleepless in Seattle'?" |
| 39% | OUTSET | 6 | From the ___ (to begin with) |
| 39% | WATERWATER | 10 | With 49-Across, famous line from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
| 39% | IMJUSTWILD | 10 | With 61 Across, 1948 campaign song by 20/59 Across |
| 39% | CANWEHELP | 9 | Question from the first couple at a dinner party, maybe |
| 39% | ONONE | 5 | With 15-Across, preparing to pop the question, say |