| 100% | TAPAS | 5 | With 61-Down, grazing locale |
| 66% | LAB | 3 | With 61 Down, chemical analysis |
| 56% | AGRA | 4 | With 102 Down, Taj Mahal locale |
| 56% | KIA | 3 | With 61 Down, South Korean car that shares a name with a South American city |
| 54% | SANTA | 5 | With 61-Down, a California city |
| 54% | BETA | 4 | With 61-Down, Pollux, e.g. |
| 54% | NOT | 3 | With 61-Down, what "dis" is? |
| 53% | EFF | 3 | With 61-Down, 14th president's inits. |
| 53% | RONALD | 6 | With 61-Down, Golden Arches’ clown mascot |
| 52% | AMES | 4 | With 61-Down, a Big 12 campus city |
| 52% | BIG | 3 | With 61-Down, description of the 1-Across |
| 52% | RED | 3 | With 59-Down, biblical locale |
| 51% | QUE | 3 | With 61-Down, start of a 1956 song title |
| 51% | DOT | 3 | With 61-Down, a common e-mail address ending |
| 50% | EARTH | 5 | With 61-Down, début film by Savanah Leaf (July, 2023) |
| 49% | NORTH | 5 | 61-Down's opponent, with "the" |
| 49% | LEHI | 4 | With 61-Down, city named for a Book of Mormon prophet |
| 49% | THE | 3 | With 61-Down, org. once headed by George H. W. Bush |
| 47% | TIA | 3 | With 87-Down, Avenida Revolución locale |
| 47% | CAPE | 4 | With 118-Down, a Massachusetts locale |
| 47% | EAST | 4 | With 1-Down, Malay Archipelago locale |
| 47% | LEA | 3 | Grazing locale |
| 47% | BRUSHLAND | 9 | Grazing locale |
| 47% | RISING | 6 | With 61-Down, global warming consequence, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 46% | REED | 4 | 61 Down insert |
| 45% | HOLLYWOOD | 9 | With 12-Down, locale of the 4-Down |
| 45% | ERIE | 4 | With 30-Down, locale of lots of locks |
| 45% | NEW | 3 | With 1-Down, locale of Gandhi's assassination |
| 45% | HEARDTHROUGH | 12 | With 61-Down, like some gossip ... as represented phonetically by each set of shaded squares? |
| 45% | POET | 4 | 61 Down, e.g. |