| 100% | SEWED | 5 | With 61 Across, thread line |
| 60% | UPTO | 4 | With 61 Across, current |
| 59% | HOOT | 4 | With 61 Across, night fliers |
| 58% | PROFILESIN | 10 | With 61 Across, 1956 best-seller |
| 57% | NASA | 4 | Org. concerned with 61 Across |
| 55% | HELPMEOBI | 9 | With 61- and 37-Across, famous line by 53-Across in [see circled letters] |
| 55% | IMJUSTWILD | 10 | With 61 Across, 1948 campaign song by 20/59 Across |
| 54% | FEEDINGTO | 9 | With 61 Across, giving up another for one's own benefit |
| 50% | THE | 3 | With 61-Across, finis |
| 50% | NOT | 3 | With 61-Across, mediocre |
| 49% | BACHELOROF | 10 | With 61-Across, college conferral |
| 49% | MINERAL | 7 | With 61-Across, prospectors' targets |
| 49% | POO | 3 | With 61-Across, bigwig: Var. |
| 48% | YES | 3 | With 61-Across, "Yer darn tootin'!" |
| 48% | STE | 3 | With 61-Across, river of Québec |
| 48% | UNIDENTIFIED | 12 | With 61-Across, dubious tabloid image |
| 48% | SANS | 4 | With 61-Across, like some typefaces |
| 48% | STATE | 5 | With 61-Across, under government control |
| 47% | INFORMAL | 8 | With 61-Across, what these answers show |
| 47% | BEENTHERE | 9 | With 61-Across, "Nothing new to me!" |
| 47% | ERNST | 5 | With 61-Across, physicist who studied supersonics |
| 47% | NERO | 4 | With 61-Across, seriously overweight fictional sleuth |
| 47% | SASHA | 5 | With 61-Across, former White House girl |
| 46% | POWER | 5 | With 61-Across, turn off, as a computer |
| 46% | SHOULDISTAY | 11 | With 61-Across, 1982 question from the Clash |
| 46% | INEED | 5 | With 55-Across, breakup line |
| 45% | SHIFT | 5 | With 61-Across, a possible title for this puzzle |
| 45% | FULLCOUNT | 9 | With 61-Across, follower of the five starred clues |
| 45% | DREAMSARE | 9 | With 36 Across and 61 Across, a quote by Lupita Nyong'o |
| 44% | YOUCANTHAVEYOUR | 15 | With 61-Across, what the judge said to the bigamist? |