| 100% | EFF | 3 | With 61-Down, 14th president's inits. |
| 54% | LAB | 3 | With 61 Down, chemical analysis |
| 48% | RAUL | 4 | With 43-Down, a president's brother |
| 48% | NORTH | 5 | 61-Down's opponent, with "the" |
| 46% | KIA | 3 | With 61 Down, South Korean car that shares a name with a South American city |
| 45% | BARACK | 6 | With 29 Down, president born in the '60s |
| 45% | TAPAS | 5 | With 61-Down, grazing locale |
| 45% | JQA | 3 | President's inits. |
| 44% | SANTA | 5 | With 61-Down, a California city |
| 44% | BETA | 4 | With 61-Down, Pollux, e.g. |
| 44% | NOT | 3 | With 61-Down, what "dis" is? |
| 43% | RONALD | 6 | With 61-Down, Golden Arches’ clown mascot |
| 43% | FOURTEEN | 8 | With 61-Across, what President Wilson proposed for a lasting peace ... or what's missing from the answers to the starred clues |
| 42% | AMES | 4 | With 61-Down, a Big 12 campus city |
| 42% | BIG | 3 | With 61-Down, description of the 1-Across |
| 41% | QUE | 3 | With 61-Down, start of a 1956 song title |
| 41% | DOT | 3 | With 61-Down, a common e-mail address ending |
| 41% | EARTH | 5 | With 61-Down, début film by Savanah Leaf (July, 2023) |
| 40% | LEHI | 4 | With 61-Down, city named for a Book of Mormon prophet |
| 40% | THE | 3 | With 61-Down, org. once headed by George H. W. Bush |
| 38% | SCALE | 5 | With 45 Down, architect's creation |
| 38% | RISING | 6 | With 61-Down, global warming consequence, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 38% | PIERCE | 6 | 14th president |
| 38% | HEY | 3 | With 61-Down, Jimi Hendrix's first single ... or a hint to the starts of 20-, 28-, 45- and 50-Across |
| 38% | FEEDINGTO | 9 | With 61 Across, giving up another for one's own benefit |
| 37% | RAKES | 5 | With 60 Down, cad's bad look |
| 37% | IPOD | 4 | With 14 Down, jogger's music player |
| 37% | GEORGEM | 7 | With 53 Down, Cagney's Oscar role |
| 37% | LATE | 4 | With 36 Down, library patron's penalty |
| 37% | FENG | 4 | With 81 Down, interior decorator's art |