| 100% | SHA | 3 | With 65-Across, "Born to Hand Jive" group |
| 57% | TURNBACK | 8 | With 65 Across, return to the way it was |
| 54% | THOMAS | 6 | With 65 Across, the first to see his name ''up in lights'' (1881) |
| 53% | BREAK | 5 | With 65-Across, go against the group ... or what the circled squares literally do in the answers to the starred clues |
| 47% | ROBERT | 6 | With 65-Across, subject of this puzzle, born 8/17/1943 |
| 47% | BLUE | 4 | With 65 Across, ''deep'' locale |
| 47% | DISC | 4 | With 65 Across, Xbox part |
| 47% | TOTHEBACK | 9 | With 65 Across, ''Move it!'' |
| 45% | CHIA | 4 | With 65 Across, morsel in a smoothie |
| 45% | LAKE | 4 | With 65 Across. ''Great'' water bordering Ohio |
| 44% | CREW | 4 | With 65-Across, private dos, and a hint to this puzzle's five theme answers |
| 43% | NEW | 3 | With 65- and 66-Across, when to sing the song in the circled squares |
| 43% | EYE | 3 | With 65-Across, what the last words of 18-, 35- and 56-Across are to each other |
| 42% | LIFEWITHOUT | 11 | With 65 Across, what some 1992 and '96 voters dreamed of? |
| 42% | SPLIT | 5 | With 65-Across, chore on a winter to-do list ... and what appears in each set of circles |
| 41% | PEST | 4 | With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 41% | FOURHCLUBS | 10 | Youth groups ... with a hint to 17-, 28- and 44-Across |
| 40% | TATER | 5 | With 37 Across, alternative to fries |
| 40% | HORA | 4 | Group dance with hand-holding |
| 40% | PENIN | 5 | With ___ hand (ready to write) |
| 40% | CAST | 4 | Group with roles to play |
| 40% | HOLD | 4 | To grasp something with hands |
| 40% | HOLD | 4 | To grasp with both hands? |
| 40% | SECRETS | 7 | Groups with reference to confidences |
| 40% | THE | 3 | With 6 Across, something to cut to |
| 40% | STOPPINGBYWOODS | 15 | With 53 Across, ''miles to go'' poem |
| 40% | EINERECLINER | 12 | With 117 Across, songs to relax by? |
| 39% | GANG | 4 | Group with a hand sign, maybe |
| 39% | CIRCLEOFFRIENDS | 15 | Group one likes to hang with |
| 39% | LOST | 4 | With 90 Across, ancient exiled groups |